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Posted to another thread, applies here:
The goal is to move gaming to “the cloud” as a part of their “You’ll own nothing and like it” philosophy…
Step one is to make home gaming prohibitively expensive…
Honestly, I'm not willing to credit anyone involved with that level of coordination and foresight. Especially not when short term profit and raw greed are more than enough to explain current actions.
Yep, the market is chocking full of old games and indie devs make new games that run on potatoes, games that are really fun to play. I don't care about the latest hardware anymore. This kind of "strategy" assumes everyone wants the latest tech and only AAA games.
All it takes is a couple of these people to fuck it up for everyone:
What's the rule? "Don't automatically attribute to malice what can be easily explained by stupidity"
Yes! Hanlon's razor. Although corporations tend to throw in a little evil for fun, as well.
Sufficiently advanced stupidity is indistinguishable from malice.
Oh I like that one. Nice spin on the original phrase. I'm stealing it (but like in a human way, not the AI way).
I'd be done with new games. Time to bust out the N64 and SNES, fire up some rom hacks on my everdrive.
I have a fairly new AMD 9070XT in my rig... I should get at least 5 more years out of that...at which point I'll make the decision...
There are a lot of decomps being developed from the N64 and PS1 era. Meaning you can play (or replay) them natively on PC with quality life improvements such as 4K, 60fps, widescreen FOV hacks, texture enhancements etc.
It's really a great time to rediscover some PC games (or decomps and ports of console games) from 15-25 years ago that you might have missed when they were new.
I would love to play my SNES and Genesis. However I cannot find an affordable crt to save my life. Wish I'd never gotten rid of them.
Retrotink makes boxes that scale them for modern tv’s. Check em out, highly recommend
I'd sooner abandon gaming completely and switch to card games.
Yeah... I'll run the old ones as long as they're still available... I think Steam isn't going anywhere any time soon.
I'd finally start on my backlog of PS2 games.
Jokes on them. Not gonna play those games. Perfectly happy with the games that work on my steam deck.
On a serious note, it's a pity that the games industry that already having a tough time going to take a hit from this probably