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I’m so nostalgic for N64. I remember getting it for christmas. It was the most awesome gift I ever got. Endless hours playing with my brother and RENTING games! lol It will always be my favorite
wait, the xbox 360 and ps3 are considered retro consoles?
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If it weren’t for that damn Switch, the 360 would be the newest console I own.
Here’s what’s just plugged in at the moment, and not in milk crates in the basement:
(Don’t @ me about my shitty cell phone picture I took in the dark. I’m not getting out the mirrorless and the studio lighting for this, plus this way the potato quality handily conceals the fact that I probably also need to vacuum that carpet.)
Honestly the only thing I as going to comment was the weight maximum on that shelving. Setup is great, would hate for you to lose something to fall damage because the shelving gave out.
I built that myself. Most of it is 3/4" ply. The shelves are side-screwed with 2-1/4" Spax screws, not resting on pegs (thus, also they can’t be moved). It’s not going anywhere.
Oh shit nice! Apologies, it looks like any other mainstream cabinet / entertainment center so I assumed it was some shitheap of fiber board. Good stuff man! Keep gaming!
Seeing the amount of dust that has gathered everywhere, the carpet would be the least of my worries.
What are you talking about? The photo quality is great. It’s not studio quality, but calling it potato quality would make the actually bad photos… what’s worse than potato? Hamster wheel quality?
Calling this photo “potato quality” is the same as calling the 360 and the PS3 “retro consoles”.
Yeah well I have an xbox1 and a ps4, and 99.9% of my gaming is done on a Mame box I recently built
Fun fact, last summer we had an intern younger than the Wii in our gaming room.
It’s been 20 years, man.
I missed you so much
insert Matt Damon aging meme
Xbox 360 turned 20 this year
Reading those words filled me existential dread.
I don’t even understand how that’s possible. The Xbox might be 20 years old, but the 360 is the new one, isn’t it?
as a 25 year old i agree, there’s no way xbox 360 is only 5 years younger than me, that thing came out recently what the hell
I’m 19, the 360 is older than me???
Released in 2005, homie.
yea ! it’s the newest one ! gotta try that gears of war thing, looks dope ! let’s meet at 4 at my place ?? my mom made cookies
The Xbox runs the og XBMC. It is still my media server after 20ish years. Having to use FTP for it is kind of a pain, though. Upside is 500gb hard drive with old Xbox games and every emulator game I’d ever want to run.
As somenone who grown up playing super nintendo, mega drive, N64 and Playstation One, everytime i see one of these memes, it make me remember than my knee hurt for a reason…
fun fact! the xbox 360 is as old now as the NES was when the 360 released 🙂
Said this in another thread a couple of days/weeks ago (what is time?) but it still feels like a fever dream to be reminded of it.
not fun fact: I had more hair when the 360 released than now or when the NES released
I had to check. If you live in Japan, that was last year. In the US it was in 2025.
This is just unthinkable. I still haven’t accepted it.
Feels like my OG 360 elite just red ringed yesterday. I still use one of the controllers for PC gaming.
no way, you’re lying
no, that cannot be
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Somebody call an ambulance!!
I mean, we are on PS5 and that feels like it came out a while ago.
It’s also technology plateauing, a PS3 isn’t functionally very different than a PS5.
IMO it’s actually inferior since you got to play for online play
I dunno, I feel like I can still pick out PS3-era graphics. But the PS4 and PS5 are so similar that they still co-release games for both with only minor visual upgrades, so I agree with your overall point if not your example.
As a child of the eighties, it feels like post PS3 things totally stagnated but this is a couple of factors working together to create the illusion that there’s been no progress. First off we went from everything being 2d to everything being 3d in the course of a single console generation. There used to be huge and noticeable upgrades because models were getting so much more detail with every generation. There’s also the diminishing returns they’re getting on graphical enhancements; the leaps forward require massively more powerful hardware to render and most of the enhancement is in details and effects which aren’t as noticeable as doubling the polygon count of your models.
The last game I played that I immediately thought “wow, there’s no way this would even be possible in a previous gen” was GTA3.
Even this latest gen, the biggest improvement feels like the SSD rather than the raytracing.
From my limited understanding, the PS3’s architecture is actually very different from PCs and modern consoles. From a developer’s perspective, it was very different to make games for it, its capabilities and strengths and weaknesses were just different. So it’s no surprise that its games have a certain look and feel to them.
The PS4 and later, OTOH, is a more standard PC architecture which means iterative improvements and less difference between generations.
Disclaimer: didn’t fact-check any of this, would appreciate replies correcting mistakes
I think you might be one generation ahead. I remember the PS3 being touted as a computer in its own right, and stories about people installing Linux on it.
But I could be wrong.
It was marketed for PS2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_for_PlayStation_2
The PS3 could run Linux initially, but Sony remotely disabled it on account of being a shower of cunts, resulting in a bunch of lawsuits (which even more cuntingly they paid out on, sooner than re-enable Linux).
That said I think you may be talking slightly at cross purposes; the ability to run Linux isn’t tied to processor architecture, and doesn’t mean anything in terms of what the PS3 was like to develop for as a professional game studio.
Fair point.
PS3 cell processor was so amazing that people were building supercomputers with it, it was cheaper that using regular computers.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PlayStation_3_cluster
In mid-2007, Gaurav Khanna, a professor in the Physics Department of the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth independently built a message-passing based cluster using eight PS3s running Fedora Linux, named the PS3 Gravity Grid. It was built with support from Sony Computer Entertainment as the first PS3 cluster with published scientific results. It performed astrophysical simulations of large supermassive black holes capturing smaller compact objects. Khanna claims that its performance exceeds that of a 100+ Intel Xeon core based traditional Linux cluster, on his simulations. The PS3 Gravity Grid gathered significant media attention from 2007 through 2010. Khanna also created an instructional website on building such clusters.
On March 28, 2010, Sony announced it would be disabling the PS3’s OtherOS feature, with the v3.21 update, due to security concerns. This update would not affect any existing supercomputing clusters, because they are not connected to PlayStation Network and would not be forced to update. However, it would make replacing the individual consoles that compose the clusters very difficult or impossible, because newer models would be shipped with v3.21. This caused the end of the PS3’s common use for clustered computing, though projects like “The Condor” were still being created with older PS3 units, and have come online after that update.
Yeah, that’s what I thought I recalled! Thanks.
This reads like someone telling me they couldn’t see the difference between their old CRT set and HD.
That’s fair, though I can definitely see a difference between CRT and HD. And between HD and 4K, for that matter, though not between 4K and 8K (at least not at normal viewing distances).
Not to mention the awful UI for the PS5 and potential lack of a disc drive, so you may not have a bluray/DVD player
Also I have to turn off the ps5 controllers before plugging them in or they won’t charge.
