Crossposted from https://lemmy.world/post/49078916

Don't forget that you paid a %50 deposit to reserve/pre-register your "copy" of a digital game

The controller has 3 hours of battery life and the joystick drifts by default out of the box now.

It's 2029. My Gamecube, Dreamcast, and PS2 still work just fine, thank you.

Or, you could take control of your life back from the corpos by any means necessary.

Hey you leave the wireless controllers out of this, dammit!

Second-hand games for older consoles exist...

For how much longer though? Older consoles and games are no longer being made and each year fewer and fewer will be available.

Emulation my friend.

You can buy the premium subscription to ensure that feature remains disabled.

That's a very nice way to console yourself.

I doubt most console gamers have enough of the know-how nor the desire to figure out how to emulate.

And before you say it’s easy: yes, for many that is often the case. But for an even greater amount of people all they want to do is install the game on their platform of choice and play. Too many hoops to jump through and the casual/technologically unmotivated audience loses motivation. And the minimum amount of hoops before that ends up being the case is smaller than you and I would probably hope for.

Yeah and the chucklefucks will still buy it.

I think this is a bit optimistic, no way they won't invent some new way to monetise it even more by 2029

No one is forcing you to buy the next Play Station. There are plenty of better options you can choose from.

You have 4 in your library, but only 1 is installed; it's Call of Duty. Since there's no need for physical media anymore, the footprint of games has ballooned to the point where if you want to install CoD, it's going to cost you 2TB of storage. They threw in 8k textures just for the 0.0001% of players that actually have an 8k TV, and there are a lot of textures since the Big Chungus update which introduced 255 different coloured Chungus textures for every weapon and weapon attachment combination in the game.

Check your caps.

No one is forcing you to…

You act like other manufacturers won’t follow suit in an attempt to squeeze more money out of consumers in the hunt for ever increasing profits.

PC only, bro. No consoles for us.

If you want physical disks just pirate and make them yourself. You'll save lots of money and won't have to support these shitty companies making such a decision.

All I'm trying to say is you have options and don't have to let them make you believe you dont. I don't like them doing this either but I don't get a say just like you.

You're not wrong but that can be rectified. Back in the day, like half the population knew how to use Napster and then KaZaa and then Limewire and among those who didn't, enough people did that they just asked a friend

Pre-orders used to be to make sure you have a copy available to purchase on release day. Now there's no point in that since there's effectively an infinite stock since it's a digital product. Now it's just to get a sub-par DLC outfit that doesn't look good with anything.

They also animated each one in a strange uncompressed video format instead of using effects over them. They are not optional, even though 95% are from optional dlcs you don't own.

how does one get started replacing capacitors? what are good practice devices

Emulators, too

Of course it will happen, but still no one is forcing you. It's up to you to decide how much you can tolerate. At one point you have to decide that it's enough and you wont buy anymore and if it means you can't participate in that hobby then yes you wont participate in it and find a new hobby.

The meme is accurate, but it still is a luxury product and quitting it is always an option.

I've quit multiple things just because the price rose over some predetermined limit.

(not the person you asked) tbh, we have an awesome local video game store that does repairs. I'd ask them. They replaced the laser on my partner's PS2 when it stopped reading discs.

Or, check ifixit.com and see if there's a walkthrough for your device.

Check forums if the hardware you have is prone to issues. Some manufacturer years are worse then others because of the Capacitor Plague, but any capacitor can dry out, leak out or otherwise wear out. If a cap leaks, it can damage the traces on the board. Best practice is to replace before that happens. There are kits online for diy repairs and shops that will do it if you can't solder.

PCs and GOG are right there. The high seas also tend to solve all off Steam's issues pretty quick.

fuck sony

You're also old enough to schedule your first colonoscopy.

I will not be buying a PS6. Next gen will be PC (and maybe Nintendo) for me.

Capacitor Plague

Intersting reading, thanks

They each cost $80. Yeah you wish they were so cheap...

If PS goes all digital and Xbox follows with their closed ecosystem, $100 is the minimum they will charge.

If Nintendo keeps making games I like and their console isn't outrageously expensive, I'll get the next one. It's not due until like 2032, so MAYBE prices will be better. If not, I'll use my old stuff until it falls apart.

$80 is 2026 prices. It is going to be $100 at least.

5 bucks per joystick calibration. 8 for both.

The left comes misaligned out of the box, the right drifts after two weeks.

Your PSN account was banned because of your social network comments and you lost all of your games.

Yeah, the PS5 is my last console. I don't get why you're getting downvoted.

I thought switch 2 games were also essentially Download only? Like you got a cartridge but it was just a means to download the game, rather than the game itself

The SWAT team comes to your house and smashes them all.

Perhaps if people stopped buying those shitty anti-consumer consoles, but people never change, and after all, "iTs jUsT A GAme bRo ahaha" - player that bought fifa every year for the full price

Plus things like emulating seem to be age bound. My niece could maybe figure it out. My nephew can barely use a computer. He can install anything. And will, no matter what it is or from where. He will also then never uninstall it cause he doesn’t know how. Tech literacy seems to be dying. Not just email and a browser. But actually doing nerdy things and knowing how to do things like emulate or rotate a pdf.

Literally, the $80 is the most unrealistic thing in that post.

Thats not really possible at this point with the triple A games. Not unless you copy them to physical dedicated SSDs. The games are so unoptimised and bloated these days, you are forced to believe that a digital download is the solution - unless you use a bunch of bluray disks, but thats just annoying.

Solution: Don't buy a PS6. Fuck Sony.

if that attempt is shown to be unsuccessful (because of people being angry, complaining and refusing to give sony money), they might not follow suit

Most non-first party ones are, though I'd be getting those on PC rather than Switch 2. And even though game key cards suck, having a tradeable license for the duration of that game's shop server is better than having none at all.

I don't understand how anyone that plays online games would buy a PS or an Xbox. Paid online is so dumb.