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In a major crackdown, Italy's financial police have dismantled a ring trafficking counterfeit vintage video game consoles, highlighting a severe issue within the gaming industry. The operation underscores the industry's failure to preserve classic games, driving gamers toward illegal alternatives as legitimate options remain scarce and prohibitively expensive.
Even if they do crack down all a person needs is an Everdrive and a regular old school machine. Or modify a disc based console that has a dead laser to boot off an SD card. Some of those illegal devices look neat and some of them are just plain crap.
What a stupid thing to be wasting time, money and effort. Aren't these guys literally drowning right now? Maybe y'all should focus more on that instead trying to stop people from playing old games no longer being sold.
Pretty sure I've read and seen parts of Italy experiences/ing pretty bad floodings. Id argue that's more important than trying to prevent the sale of emulation devices.
The PS5 Pro's $700 price tag might not seem like a big deal, but this move from PlayStation could mark the end of affordable console gaming.
I´ll pay whatever if it´s worth it. I´m a console gamer first and foremost, but I´m not paying $700 or more for the next gen Xbox console in 2026 in case it don´t provide a significant generation leap in contrast with the Series X.
Since Sarah already confirmed that the next gen Xbox will see the biggest generational leap ever seen through all generations of Xbox consoles to date, I´m positive that it will be a powerful machine, while at the same time, I´ll remain skeptical regarding its price.
Same, I certainly have no issues in paying for something if I think it is worth it. I thought the Pro and one X were worth it because they offered more for the exact same price as the initial launch models of the base units. And the differences were noticeable. Series X is a noticeable upgrade to the S... so i paid more for that.
The 5 Pro is something I will watch with a keen eye as I do like new hardware... but their presentation failed to really sell me on it because of all the already available games they showed with minimal differences. I understand you cant see frame rate improvements in still images... but ive already seen those games in their quality and performance modes.
They really needed to showcase something new.
I mean if two games basically look almost exactly the same but one is running at twice the frame rate that is a HUGE win. People pay well over a $1000 for a graphics card that would show that level of improvement. As an example I used to play apex legends on a 3080 at about 240fps. But I paid 1500 for the 4090 and now play the game at 240fps but in 4k at high quality on my Alienware oled. It cost a lot but I don’t regret it for a second.
They do have something new. its basically DLSS. At this point, besides better graphics and performance, what would kind of feature would entice you? Personally, all I want is a console that delivers Graphics modes at 60 FPS and Performance modes that deliver 120 FPS. I am so glad we get another 4 years before PS6 because honestly I agree with you in saying that I don't know what else they could sell me on. Also, I know you are a collector so you are gonna have to pay full price because you probably wont trade. Am I correct there?
^^correct, I have never traded in when buying new stuff. As far as the 'new features' goes... it is rather tough to come up with something new when we have pretty much seen all that we can see. Only refinements to what is already out. Their PSSR is not really 'new' when you figure they did checkerboard rendering (which was new at the time) and this is only refining it via a chip now vs software / hardware techniques previously.
whats that mean tho "big generation leap"
is it from the series s perspective or the x?
as usual, they all talk with no real meaning behind it.
"whats that mean tho "big generation leap"
What we saw between the Xbox One X vs Xbox Series X for Xbox or PS4 Pro and PS5 for Playstation.
"is it from the series s perspective or the x?"
I´d mentioned the Series X in my OP
"as usual, they all talk with no real meaning behind it."
No. it´s just you that failed to understand a simple message.
' I´m a console gamer first and foremost' totally agree with this I'm doing the trade in so its more like $400 for me so its well worth the money to get a boost if I have to wait till 2028. If you are just gonna get the next Xbox in 2026, then it may make sense for you to hold off for 2 more years... however, if you want to play your PS5 games in the way possible, you might want to do like me and just trade up. And yes, be skeptical about the price. Perhaps you can trade up your Series X.
They still need to sell software and would do well to remember that. A PS6 selling for the same $1000 CAD the Pro is selling for? I don’t see that growing their business. This is a canary in the coal mine moment.
For Sony. Everyone said the exact same thing about Xbox One. Sony is making the same mistakes. I think the next Xbox will be £500, while the PS6 without Disk Drive will probably be priced at £850.
We all know next gen machines go up in price. Question is how much will they charge for that next gen machine? You have to keep it affordable of it will scare people off or people won't be able to afford it. $1000 Canadian PS5 Pro I won't pay for. If I had that kind of scratch on me I would save it and put it towards a PS6 or a Switch 2. I am happy with my slim PS5 and I will wait for the PS6 instead of buying a mid cycle upgrade like a PS5 Pro. People want to buy it then go for it have fun. Another problem with next gen is you don't want to pull a dumb shit move like Microsoft and release a machine like the Series S. I can understand affordability but I also don't like wasting money on a machine where the games have to be nerfed down just to run on the machine. Sony had it right same specs same machine one has a disc drive the other doesn't. If I was into digital I would have bought a Series X digital console but again it's late to the party. Other thing you don't want to do is another dumb shit move Microsoft made and that's making a proprietary memory card to expand the memory. Sony was right again I paid way less for my Samsung 980 pro compared to what Microsoft is charging for a memory card. Hell my 128 gig micro SD card I bought for $5 on Boxing day I use it for my Switch is way cheaper then a Series X memory card. Like I said we all know prices go up when next gen comes out it has happened for a long time and it will continue to happen.
People are forgetting next gen is about 4 to 5 years from now. It'll happen when a jump from the Pro is at a 500 dollar price point. People are daft if they think an enthusiast product will dictate what happens with a mainstream product.
Hmm... i am reminded how a $400 PS4 Pro (enthusiast product) lead to a $500 PS5 (mainstream product). And here we are today.
Like i said in another thread, I fully expect a PS6 to at least be $600. It won't be the same price the 5 was or anything less than that. It will be the same price as the fully featured PS3 was at launch.
This is a really good list.
Of this list, Remedy, Insomniac, Hello, and From are the ones they should seriously consider in addition to their proven practice of building studios from the ground up or adding more teams to their existing studios in order to expand their range of offerings.
Didn't we have a article like this 3 days ago.
Most of these aren’t realistic. Especially rocksteady. Warner ain’t giving them up.
Remedy and team ninja are possibilities, but I’d bet on them acquiring smaller studios because they already have the AAA narrative games down.
I would like rockstar or capcom or one of the developers that was part of making CoD. I wouldn't mind sony bringing back the old Westwood studios. I miss RTS Red Alert