They got burned because they’d never authenticated Pokemon anything before in the past, never mind a claimed first edition box from the original set.

It’s not an anachronism. It serves a valuable purpose, well demonstrated just this last election. It’s also still a common delivery method for end of line service, and there’s value just in having a nation connected by a unified postal service and not merely wishful thinking that the free market will give a shit about…

Self-moderating on what content not to do feels like meta-gaming, too. What’s wrong with making the whole experience solid and entertaining versus inserting several hundred hours of busy work to pad the run time?

It’s like sausage making. I don’t necessarily want to be looking at how things are made. It’s not nearly as much fun to have to meta game and decide which content not to do because the developers decided to fill the game with time padding content.

Just flip the order and you can do both with the whole lot, surely.

If you had a convincing argument about their real worth, presumably you’d offer it, but instead you went with, “google it yourself!” Which suggests you don’t.

Most of the value in NFTs is in enabling speculation, which isn’t something that makes games any better. In addition, they have to be “minted,” which since most of these cryptocurrencies rely on Etherium, means a computationally expensive use of electicity every time you want to create your artificially scarce virtual…

Gotta make sure someone else is left holding the bag when you cash out.

I’ll be honest, I doubt people would be that disappointed by a Skyrim in space. But frankly I’m loving the NASA-inspired aesthetic, to start with. I think they’ll do well.

Royal is definitely still Persona 5. My guess is a bunch of the votes for 5 were probably including Royal with it while Royal still did well enough to place on its own as a separate entry.

Undertale at #13 was really surprising, yep! Quite an achievement considering it’s a very Japanese lineup otherwise.

Repurposing old hardware also has its own value, even if it’s just sealing a bunch of them in acrylic. You can’t preserve everything that ever gets made, and you shouldn’t want to, either. The Game Boy itself is well preserved as a platform and there’s no shortage of different ways you can still experience it.

Reproduction carts are a thing, although there’s some irony playing a remade cart on original hardware I suppose.

Game Boy Colors aren’t exactly rare, as far as the state of things that are no longer being made goes. I’m sure there are plenty of GBCs that have undergone worse fates than these.

Something cool about the Switch is that often when a game has been localized for another region, it’s possible to play the game in that language by having a profile set to that region. So for example, I’ve got a bunch of Japanese carts, all but one of which works in English when I play it on my American profile.

I’ve got a little idea of what that’s like.

Streaming an MMO sounds perfectly miserable, if we’re being honest. like one of the worst sets of conditions you could set up for a streaming game, really.

Assuming Nintendo wanted to allow that kind of thing or that Square was interested in having their game run as a streaming only option on a given platform. Also assumes the Switch’s wireless capabilities are up to the task, which isn’t a given. Seems a poor way to present a game if it’s the only option to have it…

Needing a 128 GB memory card to even fit the game (do those even work in the Switch?)

They were the same generation, the PS2 just lasted longer. In any case, they stopped running games off discs afterwards and they’ve generally installed themselves to run off hard drives or flash media ever since.