Ahh, boomers…

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    1 year ago

    Fun fact, that $200 in 1991 would be about $450 today. The most expensive Nintendo console today is the Switch OLED at $360. Nintendo is beating inflation!

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    1 year ago

    So parents think it’s a big taking advantage of you conspiracy to get you to spend $200 every 5 years but I don’t remember seeing these news stories about cars lasting 5-7 years and needing to be replaced

    Remember, news has always manufactured outrage for its customers (advertisers). Guess Nintendo didn’t spend enough on the network

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      1 year ago

      Funny enough now I think this conspiracy is truer than ever, because only a handful of new releases actually require the full capabilities of a PS5 or an XSX, and most of them are being made by first-party studios to sell those consoles.

      If we think of phones, that is definitely true. To the point some brands like Apple have been found actively undermining older devices to sell new ones.

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        Sony made it even more deliberate. They blocked sales on PS3 for the same games that were on PS4. So a game may be $40 and on sale for $12 on PS4 but it would stay $40 on ps3. Developers complained about it and it was out of their hands

        Didn’t happen on Xbox. And of course on steam it was the same game all along

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          1 year ago

          Why are these Japanese companies Sony / Nintendo so scummy when it comes to this shit?

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        1 year ago

        It’s fine, just have to understand why they’re saying what they’re saying and what their motivation is

        First and foremost they’re an ad company. They sell ad space. They just need to scare people into watching, outrage them enough, get them habitually hooked

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    1 year ago

    The shade those parents must’ve felt to have their interviews used in what turned out to be free marketing for Nintendo lol

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    1 year ago

    If you’re a high skill player, meaning you have the skill of a 9 or 10 year old…

    Haha I love it

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      1 year ago

      Culture was just different back then. Spoilers weren’t a big deal, except maybe for Star Wars fans.

      I remember the era when anime episodes would tell you what would happen in it, if someone dies and stuff like that.

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    1 year ago

    A moment of silence in honor the sacrifice of Kent Shocknek, taken from this world too early while trying to jump his car o7

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    1 year ago

    When the first NES came out I was over there with my C64 and my shoebox full of disks with games I hadn’t tried yet like, lol suckers.

    I wish I had seen this, there might have been a moment when we could’ve shifted some parental money from Nintendo to Commodore with the right campaign, and kept the Amiga going…

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        1 year ago

        I learned programming on my 64 at 8 years old. I typed in the code from a programming book, ran it, saw what it did, and changed it around to alter the output to my liking.

        I’ve made a whole career out of that.