Comment on Vintage gaming advertising pictures: a gallery

Zahille7@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• Blackmist@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  They had bizarre TV adverts as well. You could never accuse early 2000s Sony of not getting weird with it.

  I don’t know if any of it really helped. It rode in on the already wildly successful PS1. It had a DVD player in it back when a DVD player was quite expensive. It had SSX and Tekken Tag at UK launch. It could play all your PS1 games and “upscale” them. The only competition it had at launch was the Dreamcast. It was going to sell anyway.

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  • rottingleaf@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It also looked so cool and, a rumor had it, could run Linux (it could, but only the fat models and with a hard drive sold separately as part of a kit, and only a specific kind of Linux with Sony’s patches, and slowly as hell, but)

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    • Blackmist@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I think that was the PS3. They took it out later though, and had to give a paltry amount of money back to people who were using it.

      It’d be nice to see homebrew coding return to consoles. Something like Godot ported to it and installed, kind of like Dreams but less limited.

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      • rottingleaf@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        No, the kit was for PS2, PS3 could run distributions intended for it without modifications, I think (maybe with some firmware changes), but those were by enthusiasts, while the PS2 Linux was provided by Sony.

        I first got into programming via Basic on the ZX Spectrum, and I do worry how future generations will get into it now they’ve all gone back to phones instead of PCs.

        Maybe the future generations will realize the difference between “can” and “should”, and there’ll arrive a niche for simpler PCs. I hope.

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