I’m likely gonna be playing the UHD remaster of that game on my PS7.
Well to be fair the NES is 30 years old and it still alive and kicking.
Look at those replies. Don’t waste your time. We can play PS4 games in the retirement community together.
These new consoles are just weak gaming PCs anyway. They’ll be emulated by then.
Since ‘ecosystems’ are now a thing when it comes to consumer electronics the lifespan of a digital game will depend on the lifespan of the service that hosts it. If Playstation Network is still around in 20 years then the applications available on it will likely still be there assuming the company that made it is still kicking.
Emulators suck, ether they have individual “fixes” for only the 20 most popular roms and everything else runs like crap or the emulator bogs your system down more than running some of the newest PC games on 720p and a image capture running. You know what BSNES has to go though and require to have near perfect emulation of a SNES? It until recently brought high end gaming rigs on it’s knees.
Okay the Wii and Wii U does a decent job with SNES titles, but compared to real hardware you notice the SNES games on the Wii and Wii U look a little dark and muddy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3HJkN6fvvJk
Video comparisons of the Real Hardware SNES and NES (using RGB video) vs their Wii U Virtual Consoel counterparts
Here is a article on tested written by the author of BSNES
That’s why I am concern with Digital Only
https://weknowvideogames.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Super-Nintendo-Console.png
Can still pop a cartridge in and play it RIGHT NOW. Same one I’ve had since Christmas 1994.
No load times. No patches to download. No online needed.
Sit down, rookie.
The thing about the current consoles being emulated is that 'cause their architecture is pretty much a PC, the “emulation” would be a technicality. Merely a transcoding (see: WINE).
And you should know WINE sometimes runs for shit on Linux computers trying to emulate a MS Windows software layer, dummy registry and a mock Windows file folder hierarchy.
God forbids you are lacking one DLL file the program needs to run that isn’t part of the instillation and you need to dig up a windows install to find the file.
And how we know their isn’t some custom rom chips Microsoft or Sony have on their consoles needed to run the console’s OS that isn’t found in the firmware or hard drive?
Yeah drop a TV on your N64, no problems. The N64 is fine.
The Xbox 360, it might break the first time you use it.
Oh I forgot the other SNES emulation article on Tested
It goes into the problems and issues of emulation.
True, but it’s also true that people give a lot more fucks about getting Windows to run console games than for Linux to run Windows shit. WINE is serviceable, and that’s all Linux snobs give a fuck about. Just enough to say they “don’t need Windows”. Game emulators will have a lot more effort backing 'em, IMO.
You’ll be able to play all your digital downloads on that thing forever.
Wait, what are we talking about again? Having a working PS4 in 20 years is probably less likely than a simpler cartridge based system. My first PS1 stopped working after like a year unless I turned it upside down.
I think he’s more commenting the fact that any potential server verifications that come from more defunct software will fail the instant the servers stop supporting the system.
Now, this new bullshit?
From the companies that brought you RRoD and YLoD? Tyrone is probably right that these shit-pieces won’t even make to the 10-year mark… and they DAMN SURE ain’t gonna maintain servers for games that long since stopped selling.
So the kid is probably right on that, and that is yet another mark against going full-digital.
I’ll never co-sign a fully digital setup in a country where the internet infrastructure is made of sticks and wires, and corporate laziness and greed are beyond out of control.
Maybe I misunderstood, I thought he was saying the fact that his SNES still works will also mean a PS4 should still be working in 20 years too. Not that it would be impossible, but I don’t know. Almost every person I know that had a original fat PS3 had to replace it. And we all know what the Xbox 360 was like up until about 2010 when the remodeled version came out.
Even the FCC admits out Internet infrastructure really sucks.
More than half the country is ether still on dial up or dsl on copper lines laid down some 90 years ago by Ma Bell.
The US is just slightly better than South America and Africa when it comes to Internet. It was until 2005 that Mink Louisiana had no phone service.
There is a mountain town Iowa Hill, in California in 2010 to get and phone service.
Fucking Phone service. We as a country only gotten everyone Phone service by 2010.
How long it take before everyone gets decent board band (that the ISP isn’t charging a Arm and a Leg).
I expect to see some type of witchhunt trials when I pop in here. Haha.
I know I’m a little late, but FUCK SONY for making a sequel to Gravity Rush and not making it on Vita as well as PS4. There should, at the very least, be a digital release on Vita. Seriously, I can’t stand that shit. I didn’t even play Tearaway and I hated the fact that they ripped it away from its home platform and used it to try to boost up their main console.
Idk why Kof13’s visuals get praised so much. Shit is ugly. All the effects look like a bunch of red and purple fireworks.
Eh, it’s less that they are trying to build up the PS4 and more that it’s another nail in the Vita’s coffin.
Still sucks though.
I love the irony of Vita meaning “life” when Sony has been trying to kill it like it’s Rasputin.
That KOF 14 gameplay teaser looked like something one guy rushed out in a few weeks using Unity, which judging by the state of SNK is probably exactly what happened.