Anyone else avoiding gaming consoles past 8th gen?

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Submitted ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨Sunshine@piefed.ca⁩ to ⁨ask@piefed.social⁩

I’m not paying for multiplayer. The internet, electricity, games and accessories are expensive enough.

It was all downhill from PS4, Xbox 360 and Nintendo Switch.

I will be gaming on steam deck instead.

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Widdershins@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Original PS2 scratched the fuck out of games if the laser lens got dusty and in doing so scratched the lens.

360 red ring of death

I don’t know how common it is but I’ve had trouble with the Steam Deck power button not always working. Keeping it paired with a Bluetooth mouse really cut down on frustration.

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MrFappy@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
I couldn’t find a ps5 when they came out and I could afford to buy one (at retail price, not scalper crap). Now I can find them everywhere, but I have 2 kids, and while working 2 jobs, can barely afford to pay my bills thanks to today’s economy. So I’m avoiding them, but certainly not by choice. I want so badly to play cyberpunk, battlefield 6, Hogwarts, Spiderman 2, etc. and am incapable of achieving that feat.

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red_tomato@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
I’m not actively avoiding. There’s just not much that makes me want to get one. I can play most games I want on PC.

Although I’m a bit tempted by the Ocarina of Time remake.

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johnnyenzyme@piefed.social@piefed.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Yes. I still play games for the Atari 2600 sometimes, especially with all the new user-made content coming out. What was that considered… 2nd gen? (ditto for the C64, a semi-console)

Also a few Super-Nintendo Chalmers titles, which I guess would be 4th gen? That was almost the perfect era to me, because the mix of memory, graphics and CPU were perfectly sufficient to pull off any number of good, fundamental games.

Better graphics were never really needed via later consoles IMO… except when it came to FPS-type games. One of the few arguments for more pixels and color depth, but obviously I date myself. XD

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otacon239@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Right there with you. I’m left with only two games on the PS4 that I wish they had ported to PC: CTR: Nitro-Fueled and DriveClub. I’ve always been sad about the death of DriveClub.

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64bithero@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
PS4 /x360 had paid multiplayer…

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