The PS3 is a retro console. The wii is a retro console. Xbone 360 is a retro console.
If you disagree, you are old.
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Well, the Wii doesn't lol. Because Nintendo sucks ass.
Is there a different term for what NES and SNES are? Calling both them and the PS3 retro makes retro a little vague
they've gone beyond retro. they're like, what you think the Atari 2600 or the BBC Micro are.
I don't see Atari 2600 or Xbox 360 games on https://www.twitch.tv/directory/category/retro , but I see lots of NES and SNES. That seems to be most popular with retro gamers
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I'm at the point where I can accept the PS2/Gamecube era as being retro but this actually kills me.
The PS3 is a retro console.
That's an affordable Blu-ray player.
I have mixed opinions about this because the PS3 is often noisy, which is less than optimal for movie watching. Players like the Sony S350 became cheap and common a long time ago...
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The one that really fucks me up is the PS3 and 360, how can the generation of DLC be RETRO???
Most of this year's college freshman were born after the Xbox 360 was released.
I don't know if it'll happen but I'm gonna be tickled if games ever develop academicly studied eras like films do. Like the whole silent era, golden age, Hollywood Renaissance, new wave, etc thing.
"Oh, you enjoy Dig-Dug? A classic from the Namco golden era. Personally I'm more into the early British wave of ZX Spectrum titles. The Stamper brothers were autuers, ahead of their time. Have you played Atic Atac? The origins of the standard life bar."
Actually now that I type this out this is just what white guy 45 minute video essays are
if you carry the love of video games in your heart, this has already happened.
there are people who absolutely love british speccy titles, and they are perverts.
i like amiga games so i'm not much better
at least you have cool music
need a :sanae-shocked: emote
This is important.
yeah
Bruh the PS2 is older than me. I love that little DVD brick.
Back to the crib with you, it's nap time.
The PS2 is old enough to have a master’s degree
Bruh the PS2 is older than me.
God just put me in a home already.
I stopped paying attention to consoles after the 360 generation so now whenever I hear someone talk about them I'm like "they're on the PS what now?!"
Mostly this, but I can guess the current PlayStation by dividing the years since 1990 by 6.
Meanwhile who knows what the fuck the Xbox is doing.
We're excited to announce the xXx_Xbox420SeriesThreeSixtyX_xXx and XxX_Xbox69SeriesThreeSixtyS_XxX
The DS was so fucking good. Probably the best console of all time, not even joking
Me when they start calling some videos games antique
The NES is as old now as a 1946 Ford Deluxe was when it came out.
New Super Mario Bros. is almost 20 years old
My literal childhood game
I'll consider the N64 unambiguously retro at the same point when I consider the PS5 retro.
To me retro is not just about age but also how those particular games are historically situated within the development of gaming. Retro implies pre-3d (console) gaming, so N64/PS1 onwards isn't retro no matter how old those consoles are relative to the present. Retro itself can be broadly divided between pre-1983 crash (Space Invaders, Pac-Man, Breakout, Centipede) and post-1983 crash (Contra, Streets of Rage, Final Fantasy 1, Wolfenstein 3D). The early retro games people remember are all arcade games while the late retro games are where you start seeing franchises like Mario and Zelda.
Due to how janky early 3d is, the N64/PS1 generation is at this awkward period of time where it's not really retro anymore but is not modern either. I mostly see it as a transitional period between late retro gaming (SNES) and early modern gaming (Gamecube, PS2).
retro implies pre-3D
I think any societal consensus puts N64 firmly, like unquestionably in retro status.
The N64 is older to us than the Atari 2600 was when the N64 came out. By almost a decade.
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Yeah that's the millennial perspective on retro gaming that held sway during the 2010s. Its time has passed, I'm sad to say. The 2010s were to the 80s/90s split as the 2020s are to the 90s/2000s split. The retro aesthetic of a lot of games now draws from the early 3D era, like SIGNALIS.
I completely missed out on the PS1 so the rise of all these faux-retro games with polygon jitter is honestly pretty cool. Helps that we've learned how to make games feel better than the first time they looked like this.
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Only the finest 16 bit games for my anime wife.
Just wait until the ps5 is a retro console
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