>>969198 wew

>>969254 There's a cool channel I found that does these 8-bit covers, but gets them running on actual hardware. He was selling cartridge albums awhile ago but I think he sold out of them.

>>968696 >PS5 at the end of it's lifecycle. On the PS6, devs will have to start making games which will release at the PS6's end of life, six months before the console's launch. >PS7 will just be a 60fps upgrade for PS6 games, with developers just skipping it to work on PS8 games. >The only developer who can afford to make games for the PS8 are Microsoft and Rockstar.

>>969282 >The 6th console isn't even a console, it's just a bag of shit with the name "Playstation 6" on it

>>969283 That's already the 5th console. By the 6th you don't own your bag of shit, you sign up for Shit-As-A-Service with a Season Pass to the septic system of Sony Interactive Entertainment.

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>>969282 >PS7 will just be a 60fps upgrade for PS6 games The last time sub-60fps was acceptable was a couple of decades ago. Pic related, a fucking gorgeous game running at 60fps on 1998 hardware. Any developer still shitting out 30fps games has no excuse.

>>970382 Soulcalibur still amazes me on how fucking good it looks. This fucking game came out in 1998 Same year as Tekken 3, Half Life and MGS In terms of looks, it's a generational leap above all of those games.

>>970387 The Dreamcast WAS a next generation console. But even it struggled to run Half-Life, which had some very large maps.

>>970446 SoulCalibur was originally an Arcade title though. I remember that Soulcalibur suffered from frame drops on the console version, though that version has 3D models in the background unlike the Arcade version. Pretty sure it's just optimization too, Gearbox got fucked hard by Valve which was fucking ass communicating or providing access to tools and support. This isn't just Randy being a sour bitch either, Ritual Entertainment and Troika said exactly the same.

>>970449 >SoulCalibur was originally an Arcade title though. On a board that was basically a souped up PS1. https://www.system16.com/hardware.php?id=535

>>970457 That makes it even more impressive. How the fuck did they achieve such a thing? It's shit like that that made me want to own a console and that's completely gone now.

>>970457 >>970468 Wait, nevermind I guess Namco must have updated the cabinets, the 1998 Arcade release looks way worse than the Dreamcast release. But I do remember seeing an Arcade version with the Dreamcast version around 2001 or so.

>>970470 Perhaps a bootleg, a console crammed into a cabinet?

>>970487 Shit, maybe I never played it myself since I hogged all the Pinball, Race and Shooter cabinets. I'm 100% it was Soulcalibur with the Dreamcast visuals though.

>>970492 It's possible they did because loads of arcade companies had the habit of releasing the arcade version first, then porting the game to consoles, then porting that version back to the arcades. This happened with Virtua Fighter and Dead or Alive.

>>970533 I just can't find any official machine that played the Dreamcast version. I was sure it was the Dreamcast version, but I could be wrong.

What the hell even happened here?

>>970569 Read the thread and find out you fucking dingus!

>>968700 Switch is unnecessary thanks to emulation at this point unless you're a smashfag in which case you would already have one. Splatoon would also have been worth it but 3 is a terrible place to start the series and 2 is dead. Zero reason for anyone who doesn't already own a current gen console to get one. Get a steam deck if you want a handheld.

>For years I thought it was a Sony executive that said that the PS4 was rocket science level stuff >Search it up again >It was actually Marc Whitten (pic related) referring to the fucking Kinect during the Xbone reveal Holy fucking shit these kikes >Archived 11 years ago Holy fucking shit AHAHAAHAHAAHAHAAH https://archive.is/989kg Dead brand, finally, RIP Micro$shaft Xbawks, I won't miss you!

>>970715 >Get a steam deck if you want a handheld. I think a fuckhuge $400+ handheld is hard to justify, outside of a niche of people who travel a lot and would have that as their main gaming system. Most just need something small and cheap to pass the time at the doctor's waiting room or whatever. And so I'd suggest instead a gamepad with a phone holder, or one of those chink handhelds, or a modded PSP or Vita. And then emulate the shit out of 8-bit, 16-bit consoles.

>>970715 >get something that costs more than the Switch, is much heavier and larger, is ergonomically unusual, and can't play every Switch game if you want a handheld What? Lmao

>>970754 >is ergonomically unusual

>>970754 Well, it IS better than the Switch, in the sense that it can run a lot more games (most PC games + emulate many other systems), as well as tons of other kinds of software.

>>970770 Yeah, but most PC games are either better played with an actual mouse and keyboard, or are otherwise ports from console which are better played using a controller. Playing an RTS or an FPS on a Deck sounds like shit for example. Those touchpads are fucking gay and very obtrusive >>970758 >discussion is about handhelds >uses the home console mode with the shittiest possible layout You're not wrong that it's also pretty shit ergonomically, at least in that mode. Still not on the level of the Deck though.

>>970773 What seems to be the issue here?

>>970773 Forgot to add (again) That you can play most console ports to PC there, most of which Switch cannot play. I'm just waiting for a Steam Deck 2 just to replay MGR and Resident Evil Remake wherever the fuck I want.

>>970773 Detached and docked is very ergonomic for me since my arms can move. I'm old and get joint pains holding other controllers too long.

>>970773 >Those touchpads are fucking gay and very obtrusive

>>970887 He's right, not retarded. Touchpads are shit for games that need precision.

>>970893 No it checks out. I did all the high concept mathematics in my lab. I cross-referenced empirical evidence and studies published by professionals who are well respected. He's a retard. The touchpads double as programmable keyboards. Should you fail to see the benefit of that; I remind you casuals to just use the waggle controls instead.

>>970923 >touchpads as programmable keyboards I think I lost braincells reading this.