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The goal is to reach 1 million signatures in the EU so that the european parliament will respond to the initiative that then leads to regulation that requires end-of-life plans for games to stay playable.
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I picked up a used ps3 slim after my Xbox 360 red ringed, and it got some decent use as a netflix machine (back when that was cheap and still kinda new-ish) and a few games, but I noticed that I played damn few things on it overall, and beyond ratchet and clank and the first red dead, the exclusives didn't do much for me, so I sold it.
I didn't have a console for a long time afterward, over a decade. None of the newer options from Xbox or Sony appealed to me, especially with the requirement to pay a monthly fee to pay online (I only ever did a free trial of Xbox Live on my 360).
Then this year I picked up an old Wii with a balance board on a lark. Fuck me if it wasn't the best console I've ever owned.
Super easy to mod, tons of good emulators can run on it, wireless classic controllers are dirt cheap and feel great, tons of great exclusives, motion controls actually kick ass and feel fresh (resident evil 4 has been a blast with them), the balance board with Wii fit actually works great and is surprisingly unique and useful, it goes on.
Some may disagree, but honestly I think consoles peaked at the Wii, and its been downhill from there.
The Wii is an exceptionally good console. So is the second one to be fair, as well.
The Wii U is nice too, though in my mind it's mostly just a slightly upgraded Wii with an HDMI connection, as it never really got many good titles made for it outside of the Zelda remasters/BOTW. I think it does have access to a few more emulators if modded though.
I believe so. Yeah there’s a reasonable amount of accuracy in that comment and I guess it’s partly why it never took off the way the first one did.
We have two Wii and two Wii U here, both are modded, my son does all that. My daughter has a third, our old original, that’s modded as well.
Some things Nintendo do and did so well that the others struggle with. The kind of fun you’re having with the balance bard and Wii Fit echoes that. After all this time they still work brilliantly.