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I bought my NES with my own money in 1988ish after saving up for months. If I go downstairs and power it on right now, I'm certain Tetris will fire right up.
Who wouldn't? It's such a weird thing to assume it shouldn't just work (assuming no hardware failure at least).
If I turn on a PC from 10 years ago it'll boot up and run the applications installed on it.
Gen Z grew up in this broken world. They don't know any better. They don't understand what it means to own something.
That's the plan, actually.
Gen Z is a wide spectrum.
I started on the PS1 and I am Gen Z
Many Gen Z grew up with Wii's and Xbox's which used physical media. I was never allowed to own an Xbox, but I did have a Wii. I think a lot of us have memories of putting in game CDs. The cutoff for that might be Gen Alpha.
Could be.
Specific age boundaries aside, the younger people are, the less experience they have of owning physical things, and the stranger the world as it used to be sounds to them. They live in a curated world of continually obsoleted technology they don't own fed a diet of propaganda pushing technology and its proponents as saviors and not oppressors.
Yeah, there's definitely a range. I'm gen z and we never really had game consoles, so I grew up mostly gaming on a Mac (do not recommend, although I think the translation layer situation has improved since then). I also have memories of putting in tapes, cartridges, and floppy disks to my parents' old Atari and Commodore computers (both of which actually worked great after having not been used for like >30 years)
I have enough content in emulators alone that it would be pretty damn easy to just stop buying consoles and big studio titles entirely. Which I guess I've kind of done already.
Hell even if you forbid old PC games, my AuDHD ass could bounce between Chrono Trigger and Symphony of the Night for years.
For anyone who expects their retro console to boot up and be playable, check to see if your console has known capacitor issues before powering it up. Even caps not part of the plague can leak if they're old enough. If they're powered on with leaking caps, it can be much harder to fix than if the caps were replaced before being powered on
About a decade ago they discovered a lost tablet that adds 20 "new" lines to the Epic of Gilgamesh. Four millennia, and all they had to do was dust it off and translate it. Stone tablets turn out to be a very good medium for preserving culture.
Video games is also a cultural medium - video games are also pieces of culture. They should not be intentionally made to be lost to time.
Stop buying videogame consoles. The companies making the consoles think you are all 12 and treat you like you were born yesterday.
You expect a 10 years console to resume back to normal?
See, I could maybe buy this argument if it was something unintentional. Maybe a server went down and lost all the data, or some hack required them to upgrade their security in a way that a 10-year-old console couldn't handle. Sure, that kind of thing happens (though not usually for a megacorp like Sony, but anyway). But they made this decision intentionally. They put in extra work to make sure that it would function in this anticonsumer way. It cost them money and time to make this change.
Do I expect a console that I purchased 10 years ago to still operate in the same way now, barring disasters or malfunctions? Yes. Yes I do.
Tobin is the kind of person that makes me wish you could beat people up over the internet.
Don't be Toblin
"You expect the things you paid for and bought to still be there later?"
Yes, you corporate nut sucking fuck nugget, I do.
Most recent console I have used (and still use frequently) is a Gameboy Color from 1998. Original hardware (I did replace the screen).
Last game I finished was Pokemon yellow on an original cartridge. Worked fine, after 25+ years (with a new cartridge battery).
| You expect a 10yr old console to resume back to normal?
Yes? I recently considered trading in my old Xbox 360, but when I booted it up I discovered I still had around a hundred games still stored locally.
After the wave of nostalgia subsided, I realized how lucky I was. Keeping that bad boy forever.
My Sega Genesis from 94 boots up and plays the games That were purchased back then whenever I want to…
Finds old psp in the closet
Holy shit it still works, can’t say that about the memory card though
Sadly not much to be done about bit rot
Easily solved with a cheap microSD->pro duo adapter. Can't save the lost data, but, can make it work again!
I've been using my Hotmail account since 1998. I can log in right now and go back and read all the stupid emails my friends and I were sending each other in high school 28 years ago. And I've never paid a cent for that Hotmail account. And my cartridge games still have my saves.
So yeah, I do expect that.
You shouldn't. Microsoft locked me out of my 2001 hotmail account a few years ago.
And my cartridge games still have my saves.
they might not much longer, batteries and finite life and all that.
but at least you can slap new batteries in them and the game will still fucking work, and not permanently taken away from you because you took to long to go back and replay it.
Uhh.. Yes I do expect it to resume back to normal. Why the fuck wouldn't it?
Sure, if I connect it to the internet I expect all sorts to updates to be missing. But offline? 1 day or 100 years shouldn't make any difference. OK the CMOS battery might be flat.
OK the CMOS battery might be flat.
Arent they mostly flat to begin with? Sorry.... I couldn't help it.
YOUR MOM IS MOSTLY FLAT TO BEGIN WITH.
Not once I'm done with her.
@Eh_I@lemmy.world, selflessly patching and inflating leaking mothers everywhere. Do you offer maternal rotation and balancing as well?
This is the content I come to Lemmy for.
The case in the tweet wasn't a hardware problem. Apparently the person's PSN account had gotten deleted during their 10+ years of not using it, and downloaded games attached to the account didn't work any more.
And
the account shouldn't have been deleted
the account being deleted shouldn't stop the downloaded games from working.
Both are Sony's fault
Imagine if some Sony executive broke into your house and stole the games off your shelf because you hadn't played them for a long time. Thats what happened here.
It never happens to a pirated game I heard
if its not theft for them to steal your games away from you, then its not piracy to download their games.
Sony is legit the only company that stores shit you bought on their servers and will delete your shit if you're not active on the account for over a set period of time (in their case it's 3 years, if I am remembering right). Nobody else has a time limit for inactivity.
My PS2 resumes like normal
If 40 year old consoles can resume back to normal, so should 10 year old consoles.
However, it should be noted that the PS3 is now 20 years old.
Bruh I cleaned my PS2, turned it on after being in storage for a decade, and it remembered what time it was. That cell battery is a goddamn king
And of course, discs and memory cards. I'm sure some folks' digital PS2 mods are also solid, and aren't affected by one of the weakest links, the read laser.
Haha, I was selling a whole racing chair/wheel/shifter combo for my partner's dad and he got it for the PS3, so it came with around 10 games. I used dirt to test it, ended up deciding to keep it for myself in the end.
BUT my account and downloaded games also worked, because I didn't hook it up to the Internet (which after reading this I shall never do).
That shit should be illegal. They should be charged with theft and treated accordingly, or at the least get the shit kicked out of them; the way we used to treat thieves in the good old days.
Still have a slim PS2 and wouldn’t you know it, it still plays all the games I bought for it.
Sony should fucking refund me for every one of my games that I bought that stops working
I'll just never rent anything from them again. Fuck renting.
I could start up sonic on my sega genesis right now.