Stop buying videogame consoles. The companies making the consoles think you are all 12 and treat you like you were born yesterday.

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.

I sold all my childhood consoles and games before I moved out on my own.

I think it would be kind of neat to play those games on original hardware, assuming the hardware itself still works. Obviously the “saves” on some of those 30+ year old cartridges might no longer work. On the other hand, it would just be more unused stuff sitting around taking up space and making moves more complicated for the past 3 decades, so I’m also perfectly at peace with the fact that I don’t have them anymore.

A couple of years ago, I fired up the Wii I bought from a buddy of mine back in '07 or '08, which was one of the early NA models from 2006. It still worked and the games I checked out still worked, including the digital ones. The online stuff is non-functional now though, but I never really used any of that other than sometimes I’d fire up the browser for the novelty of it.

Anyway pointless stories aside, I assume that reply was just contrarian / rage-bait commentary for engagement. I don’t know that particular person, but I know that type. They look at every interaction as a chance to “dunk” on someone / demonstrate their superiority in some way and/or as a means to gain attention, any attention, good or bad.

So, I wouldn’t read too much into it, unless you happen to know these folks personally.

Yes, I expect that.

Just shake out the mouse turds and plug that fucker in

Everything about modern console gaming has been frustrating. I’m trying to help my kids, but having physical media hard to find, never-ending account creation, and then features locked behind online stuff, that you then have to subscribe to the console company to play anything online? What have we done?

I have an Xbox 360 that has sat idle in closet since 2015. This past January, my son and ai were snowed in when I remember it. Pulled it out and found the kinetic. For the next 3 days we played fruit ninja and had a blast. I didnt connect online for any “Updates” so im not sure if I lost any licenses

Sony should fucking refund me for every one of my games that I bought that stops working

I haven’t even thought about it. I know where to find the games on the high seas and emulators are my preferred mode of play, although there are probably ways to run them on original hardware.

If buying isn’t owning, then piracy isn’t stealing.

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 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.

Worth noting that it’s extremely easy to hack a PS3 and bypass the DRM.

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.

If the saves are still there you can probably transfer them to an Emulator. Ps3 emulation is getting there.

My PS Vita spent years in a closet, I charged it and it was as good as new (maybe the battery needs to be swapped), so yes.

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 these days.

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.