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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.
the PS3 is now 20 years old
OutRAGEOUS misinformation...
It may have been 10 years old back in the olden days. Perhaps we need a historian or archeologist to weigh in.
Might've used it until 2016, that was just three years after release of the PS4.
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.
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.
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.
SNES/GBA game saves erasing due to batteries 😭
You’re telling me I’m going to have to replace the batteries and replay chrono trigger and Pokémon emerald again? Oh the horror
Pokemon Emerald's battery is only there for real time clock functions. Saves remain intact even after the battery runs dry.
Gen I and II games used the battery for save data, however.
GBA? The kids these days. I have an original Zelda cart for the NES that still holds save data.
My Atari VCS (this was before they were calling it the "2600") was manufactured in 1978. It's 48 years old, and if I slap E.T. into that son of a bitch, it plays.
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.
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.
Still have a slim PS2 and wouldn’t you know it, it still plays all the games I bought for it.
Amazing. Maybe we could reverse-engineer it and figure out how the ancients achieved this technology.
But that would be communism!
It was achieved by emblazoning the games on to sacred discs.
"You expect the things you paid for and bought to still be there later?"
Yes, you corporate nut sucking fuck nugget, I do.
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.
| 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.
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'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.
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.
it's weird how the same console would have still worked fine if it were modded and had pirated games on it
Yes, I expect that.
Just shake out the mouse turds and plug that fucker in
My Sega Genesis from 94 boots up and plays the games That were purchased back then whenever I want to…
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.
tfw i turn on my ps1 to play final fantasy 7 and my save where i go on a date with barret is still there.
Yes.
I fire my 8 bit Nintendo up every five years or so. As long as I blow in the cartridge I'm still good to go.
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
I find my DS every few years and it still just turns on with the same charge for the last decade and a half. No idea what they made those batteries out of.
My PS2 has game saves from 2002 on it that still function.
That's why I've never bought a digital game on console. For years, my strategy was to buy AAA games physically on console and indie games on PC via DRM-free services. Now that Sony is stopping physical disc production I won't have that option anymore, but luckily none of the AAA studios make anything worth a damn any more.
Just saying, the Xbox 360 doesn't have that problem, since buying a game gives a license to both the account and the console it has been bought on. So even if you get banned, your console should still be able to play the game with an other account. Of course they "patched" it with the Xbox One.
I haven't used my PS2 in about 20 years, and know for a fact that I could hook it up and play Jak and Daxter today with a single hdmi adapter.
Yo ho ho, it's a pirate's life for me.
Yes, yes that should be a normal expectation.
If you buy a game as a kid, play the fuck out of it, then end up tossing that console in a box or closet for a decade as you grow up, then when that nostalgic urge to play your old game again hits you should be able to plug the console in and play again. Not be told that your Xstation account was deleted because you didn't log in as ButtholeSurfer696969lol in the last few years so all of those purchases no longer exist.
