I mean - just from inflation alone, a price increase is understandable. $60 in 2010 is $71.40 in 2020 dollars
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Like the proverbial cat who caught a mouse, I finally snagged a PS5 pre-order but now I'm not sure what to do with it.
Slickdeals alerts are where I want to beAnybody looking for one may want to monitor Twitter - and I hate saying that, fuck Twitter - or somewhere like the forums at CAG.
PS2 games are available for emulation on PS4 already. Presumably you can play them on PS5, you just can’t play PS2 discs. As to why they’ve seemingly discontinued their PS1 emulation, I don’t know.
I mean, Phantasy Star IV cost 99.99 when it first came out - we had a lot of price variance for cartridge based games depending on the chips that were in the cartridges
I should maybe put a preorder down for some games and accessories I guess.
I have wireless chargers scattered around my room/home for charging cellphones because of how convenient it is, but with game controllers I'd rather stick with a wire tbh. I can deal with tiny little pads a few inches across, but big single-use cradles are a step too far for my conservation of space. I also like to stick to wires in case a controller dies on me in the middle of playing, and you can just instantly hook it up and continue playing.Not sure about pre-ordering them since I don't expect a rush but the controller charger will be handy; I bought one early on for my PS4 and it's convenient to not have to futz with a wire. As far as games, I'll probably pick up Demon's Souls and AssCreed: NordicThunder. I'm interested in Spider-Man: Miles Morales but it feels like a wait-for-a-sale thing to me. I also need to finish up Ghost of Tsushima, so may as well do it on the PS5.
Sooo... I don't know if this question applies to the ninth gen, or eighth, or whichever, but even though I'm not interested in any Xbox games past the 360, I'm also fretting that my 9 year-old Xbox 360 is on borrowed time (it's the latest version, but I sent enough RRoDs back for repairs to know this one ain't gonna last, and it has only lived this long because I turn it on maybe once a year.) With the smart speaker-looking Xbox coming out, which is my best option if I want a console where I can keep playing Crackdown 1 and Lost Odyssey and Blue Dragon and so on?
As an English man I can beat that easily. Street Fighter II at release here was £64.99 which in today's money is £133.28 or $166.76. I'm pretty sure Virtua Racing was even more.Virtua Racing, too! And a lot of Square RPGs on SNES were in the $70-$80 range. Hell, this 1992 EB catalogue has SF2 at $75 (that's $138 in 2020 bucks).
LOL probably not. RRoD happened when the solder in the 360 broke down over time on the connections on the graphics chip, causing the chip to lose its connections to the board and lift off of it. The reason this happened was because:I wouldn't assume that the newest 360 is about to die; as far as I'm aware they fully fixed RROD.
fucking lol (to ms not you)well good luck on that microsoft
That's nice and all if you have the knowhow and patience to do that kind of thing. On the other hand, I knew quite a few friends who put down stupid amounts of money on dinky 360 expansion hdd because they didn't know better. It's easy money for MS, it's one of the centerpieces of their entire business model, and I fucking hate it.It's probably just a plastic shell around a pre-formatted drive like the last time, so yeah, this'll last exactly as long as it takes for somehow to work out a bypass using existing shells and higher capacity drives. Also just like last time, lol.
It's probably just a plastic shell around a pre-formatted drive like the last time, so yeah, this'll last exactly as long as it takes for somehow to work out a bypass using existing shells and higher capacity drives. Also just like last time, lol.
The PS4 has a similar removable faceplate, but it's only for about a quarter of the chassis so you can access the hdd easily. There were a few times Sony had limited edition replacement plates for certain things/special events, but it was nothing like the 360 trying to be the next Nokia dumbphone from the early 2000s. I doubt Sony will go ham on replaceable faceplates and flood stores with them (it would take up too much physical shelf-space) and leave the whole thing up to third party/boutique if they want to go down that road.OTOH looking forward to the XB360-like market for custom faceplates.