Greetings, redditors. i am a young lad which has lately been growing a passion out of consoles, specifically retro consoles, i do have some, i have a snes, an n64, a wii u, a nintendo switch, a ps1, a ps3 and an xbox 360. i am personally happy about my collection but i want to expand it. of course to buy a specific console, i often go in facebook marketplace or wallapop to find pretty good deals. the only problem is, even if i did find a good deal for a console i desire (tipically consoles i dont have, like the ps2 or a nes), i do not have any money, i do not get paid for doing chores, and my grandma gives me 10 euros time to time when i get a good mark. i am 14 years old and i live in italy. any tips? thanks if anyone answers

Hello. Hoping for some objective second opinions on this because I’m incapable of being decisive. I’ve been debating about selling my Series X because truthfully, I’ve owned it for two years now and have hardly touched it. Don’t think I’ve even touched it once in the past year. I have a PS5, a Switch, and a Gaming PC (3600 + 5700XT) and I’ve used all these way more. Only game I’ve bought for the Xbox was GTA DE, which was a digital version so I’d be losing that.

I could sell my Series X today for $550 CAD. It’s a bit of hit since I paid ~$790 CAD for it and Microsoft Complete after taxes. Is it worth taking the hit? Is this a good price to sell it for with a year left of MS Complete left?

So for the past three years, I've pretty much been a PC gamer exclusively. I've always sold my systems to buy newer ones, so constantly losing access to my game libraries was something I was tired of. To me, PC gaming was the most sustainable and consumer friendly option since I'd always own a Windows device of some kind, right?

Well, the reality of investing into PC gaming long-term dawned on me. Steam recently barred Windows 7 and 8 users from using the service and playing their games. I understand that this is for security reasons, but the idea that I have to basically commit to Windows indefinitely is scary. I've grown especially tired of Windows 10 and recently switched to a Mac, and it's such a better user experience.

I will have to upgrade my PC and switch to newer versions of Windows perpetually if I still want access to my Steam games. Meanwhile, the Xbox 360 I owned for 10 years never stopped working. Sure, the storefront is going away, but I could still buy a preowned 360 and redownload my games if I really wanted to. That's not even mentioning physical copies.

You truly have to be ALWAYS online and investing in the Windows ecosystem if you want to game on PC. Steam is a service in the truest sense of the word, you can't just buy a PC and be done with it. I just really hate the idea of that. Is it nice to have most of the games I want on one device? Yeah. Will I be missing out on a lot of indie games by switching to consoles? Possibly, but only now is the true nature of PC gaming hitting me. It doesn't really seem like the "consumer friendly" option anymore.

I’m not necessarily trying to make this a “Are Consoles Going to Die?” discussion. I am more so asking the question that if and when cloud gaming becomes reliable and mainstream, how do you guys think Sony and Nintendo will respond? I exclude Microsoft from the equation because they obviously already have this future in mind.

Sony and Nintendo get a cut of the revenue for every third party game sold for their respective platform. Despite the stigma that no one buys third party games on Nintendo hardware, the reality is that third party games often see success with expanding their audience to Switch owners and licensing fees are very much a crucial part of Nintendo’s business. But obviously even more for Sony. So they aren’t going to just say goodbye to that revenue stream so easily.

I imagine Nintendo might already have a leg up over Sony in this regard, as there will still be a demand for portable gaming which will require the need of a dedicated portable gaming device.

But do you think will Nintendo and Sony just make their own subscription services to the level of GamePass, and each service will have exclusives like we see with consoles now? That would mimic what we see with shows and movies segmented with all the different streaming services now.

The only thing that I think prevents cloud gaming from being main stream in the future is I think it will be a real struggle as a sustainable revenue source for all the different devs. Game Pass is already proving to be a double edged sword. Divvying up monthly or annual subscription revenue to all the different devs on your service sounds like it would have A LOT of losers, so the model of paying for every individual game you want to play might be here to stay either way.

Hi guys,

I am deciding of buying a console, which would be of family use. It doesn't need to be to futureproof as long as it has online since I will probably end up building myself a PC and then the console will be left over for guests. The main purpose of the console is for it to stay here as an entertainment for guests, meaning it doesn't need to be a high end console - in fact, I am budget balling with quite low-mid budget (not as low as Xbox 360) and I may occasionally play things like Witcher 3 or Forza. Right now I am considering to buy Xbox One S (I know that isn't too crazy). The best offer I am finding right now is about 70 pounds (which I could try and haggle) and so I wanted to come with a question - how worth is Xbox One S in 2024? I know it will lose support and that it has very bad performance, but Xbox One X is close to non-existent on 2nd hand equally like PS4 for that price in my nearby area and I am not buying Series S as I love the physical copies of the games. Also, I am not very demanding, so I can easily stand 30fps in single player games as I don't think its any type of issue to play on such framerate.

Just to say that my budget is UP TO 200 Pounds British Sterling, but I'd prefer to make my best out of my buck (as I will think of buying Xbox Series X too in future).

Hi guys, I played on this console last time 20 years ago when I was a kid. Now I wanted to find some informations about it and I'm stuck. All I know is that this Game Station is just another name for the Rumble Station and only published in USA. But it's strange that this one is running on batterys. It looks like it's a very rare console to me. Maybe some one of you now more about it ore maybe what it's worth today :)

Hello guys, i'm wondering if i should buy a Wii and a 3DS XL or just a Switch. I want to play some games with my sister, but i also want to play handheld/singleplayer. I was going to buy the wii and 3ds modded and i would probably mod the switch myself if i buy one. I think switch might be better, but it would cost me around 300€ for a modded V1/V2/OLED (really depends on what i can find on the used market) and for both an already modded wii and 3ds xl it would cost around 200-250€. What do you guys think?

My situation : I work at a juvenile rehabilitation facility. We currently have Xbox’s available for the youth. However, it is a huge burden to keep these consuls updated. It is very time consuming. We buy CDs for games and it takes forever to download the game. The facility does not have Wi-Fi. Once a week, I can plug an Xbox into an ethernet cable to do an update, but I can’t keep up with all the updates for every Xbox for every game.

In a perfect world, I would love an Xbox with no Internet capability with pre-downloaded games, never requires an update.

Does anything like this exist?

I liked the retro arcade Consol but it was not popular with the teenagers.

Hello. I want to buy a handheld console for the first time in my life.

The games I will play can be 2D platform or indie simple 3D games. for example: I want to play games like Dead Cells, Hades, Moonlighter.

I am looking for a handheld console that will play +4 hours with a single 100% charge.

Is Steam Deck suitable for this? I read that the battery is insufficient and I gave up. (I am also open to Chinese brands.)

What is your suggestion?

Okay so the other day I took my sister to GameStop so she could get her a brand new PS5 since she's been on PS4 for a very long time. Mind you I've had a series x for a couple years up to this point. I bought it used since I couldn't find any in stores at the time. And she's showing me a game. Me and her play together and it just blows my console out of the water in terms of performance. Everything is set on high while I still have to keep all my settings on low. And she isn't getting any lag or frame drops. Is it time for me to buy a brand new series x? I've already cleaned it out completely by taking it apart to take out the main chassis and clean around the power supply and heat sinks, But it didn't help whatsoever.

I genuinely don't understand why

Im looking for a small pocket game boy just to play some old school pokemons and stuff is there any consoles that you guys would recommend any help would be deeply appreciated!!

Got them for $45 each on sale. Eff GameStop tho. Literally hate going into that place. At first they didn’t have a sealed copy of the last of us part 2 and acted offended when I asked if they could at least replace the torn up display copy case. They managed to find a sealed one after the fact but come on with this “used is new” thinking.

Hello everyone!

First thing first, sorry for my use of english, but it's not my native language.

It's my first time posting here and the motivation for that is a console that I found in Facebook marketplace. The console is called MG Wiii 3 and, out of curiosity, I purchased it! I am a fun of old and nostalgic tech related items!

Searching for it I wasn't able to find a lot of information. A link that I found is: https://www.ebay.com/itm/402837348534

I would like some information related to console and, ideally, a manual! It seems that the controller has the navigation buttons reversed!

Unfortunately, as I say, it wasn't possible to find something more useful...

Thank you in advance for any help.

https://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/tech/2024/05/129_373816.html

Personally, I don't like picking dialogue in video games. It always breaks immersion for me. It's also creating excuses for me to get distracted by other things and put down the controller. I prefer sitting back, immersing into the world, and enjoying whatever the writer wrote.

Just curious as i dont know how the mechanism works but there must be some sort of friction required to pull the disc in and slide it out right? i see felts around the openings but felts can causes scratches and also dirt caught on the felts do more damage right?

if so would top loading drives be better?

This is a ps3 1TB HDD that I bought cheap in 2021. It has had problems since day 1, the ps3 would freeze for moments, but I didn't have the knowledge back then about bad sectors and how they affet performance.

The drive became corrupted and won't boot anymore, won't take updates (official firmware) and freezes on 99% on updating :(

I decided to format it and try again, but it didn't work.

I thought about doing a surface test and this is the results lol and it's still counting.

should I continue the test in order to maybe have a chance of repairing, or is it a hopeless case? and any tips for future purchases of HDDs and drives in general?

THX

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So I have recently bought a modded ps2 and it has free Mcboot, ulaunchelf, OPL, and also I have a hdd with some roms and games already on it. I’d really like too add more games too my ps2 but I’m having alot of trouble, the computer I’m working with is OS (instead of windows 😤) so I’m having trouble extracting files amongst other things, I also only have 2gb flash drive at the moment… Can someone explain in the simplest way if I would need too buy anything else too add Roms to it and also how I could do this with my Acer OS computer!??! If anyone can help thank you very much I’m lost when it comes to this.

I'm in Poland for example:

Atlas Fallen on Steam 32e vs PSN 50,6e

Banishers - Steam 39e vs PSN 59,9e

If anything consoles are more budget oriented then this should be 180, strange.

Also Plague 2, Evil West.

Hi!! This is my first post. So, I've been watching a lot of videos of reviews of diferent emulation consoles (anbernic, retroid, powkiddy,etc) but its being ver difficult to decide which one to buy. I Just want to be able to play n64, the powkiddy x55 its pretty cheap, but i've heard that it runs some n64 games poorly. By the other hand, the retroid pocket 3+ its more expensive but it runs n64 perfectly. What should i buy? Are there any other consoles that you guys recomend?

I’m getting tired of the games the Xbox has now, I’m looking to trade it for a Ps5, because of the types of games that it has anyone has advice on how I can do this.

Hello first post here, hope everyone is having a nice day. Im posting because I'd like to know a good controller that is atleast usable for ps3-xbox 360 and up. I mean both consoles. I wish to employ your help finding a good controller for multiple console generations. And for the people that want to know, i only mean a xbox and playstation compatible controller. Nintendo is something that isn't a particular focus since they don't have many modern consoles with proper controllers. This is because im on an older game focus and don't have good controllers for all the consoles i have. Regards.