• Patrikvo@lemmy.zip
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    7 hours ago

    Not everyone. We got a Nintendo switch, PS5, Xbox and PC for gaming as I believe it’s important that kids while growing up should be exposted to different cultures.

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    Mainstream consoles are walled and we should not cheer on “our” consoles. For the same reason we should not cheer on our nationality.

    Im ps2 tho…

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    Had a GameCube, Xbox, and PS2. Had a Wii, PS3, and Xbox 360. Only ever had an Xbox One, and have so far skipped the current gen, exclusively playing on PC.

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    And every single one of them was wrong, no matter which console brand they picked.

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    22 hours ago

    When I got my first consoles around 8, it was from my neighbor who wanted to get a ps1, so he sold me his snes and genesis and about a dozen games for each. After that I got every major console (used ofc) though I stopped xbox at the 360 because I always buy used at least a generation behind, and the whatever came after one was already out, and almost entirely backward compatible. Why get xbox one when I could get the whatever came after and get two consoles for the price of the one?

    I might get the xbox whatever’s current at some point, but the big companies basically destroyed the used game market with their shenanigans, discless consoles, pushing digital games over everything else and barely even releasing games on disc in the newest generation, and then fucking up the used market further by making everything online, shutting down servers, and revoking licenses for stuff making people realize if they don’t have it physically they don’t own it, driving up used game prices so they cost as much as new.

    At at this point I’m just not really into collecting games anymore. It’s no longer a fun cheap way to get occasional gems among lots of average games (I have like 500 discs, a lot of those games are very meh).

    I still game, but I’d never pay for a digital copy that I can’t sell/give away when I don’t want it anymore, because that’s not what gaming is to me. So my current method of aqusition gives exactly the same amount of money to devs and studios as my former method of buying used games, and I feel zero guilt as a result. They weren’t getting my money anyway, the difference is that now nobody does. I do throw indie devs money a lot more often than I would if buying the used disc, but I’m still broke (more broke, in fact) so I can’t afford to do it all the time, much less buy all these games at whatever price they decide they want to get for it.