Finally Bought a PSVITA 1004 (OLED) for 150€ with box and SD2VITA adapter too

Conditions are beatiful VITA also has the plastic cover all over the console to keep it in best conditions, since it was bought on day one by the guy who sold it to me 🙂

I own a variety of consoles through the generations, I am in no way a fan boy and go where the games are! I have....

PsTV for playing PS1 on My 55"TV

PS2 with a 2tb HDD

PS3 with a 1tb HDD

Ps5 With over 20 Physical games and over 200 downloadable games

Original xbox with 2tb HDD

Xbox 360 with 500gb HDD and 2x 512gb Thumb drives so make up to 1.5tb.

Xbox series S with a 1tb storage expansion card which I keep in work with my 15.6" portable monitor.

Xbox series x with 1tb storage expansion card and over 300 digital game to download and 10 physical games

Nintendo switch oled with a 1tb sd card and over 200 downloadable games and 40 physical games.

Dreamcast with 512gb sd card for gdemu

Nintendo 64 with 8gb sd card for everdrive

GameCube with 128gb sd card for swiss

Wii U with a 1tb HDD for haxchi

Yes these other than the current generation are all modded in some way and I can play any game I desire, I was collecting physical games a lot but I'm lacking in space plus the wife would kill me.

What consoles do you own?

I've been thinking about which console to buy for this year, I don't have much of a budget, I can go for an Xbox series S or a PS4, my budget doesn't allow me to go for more modern generations, I'll use it more or less frequently and I want to go a lot on the online side of the console to be able to play with my friends and such. I'm not sure about using Gamepass in the first instance

Edit: My friends play on PS4

recently i thought about it and would like to know your opinion.

Ik I will get a lot of hate for this . But it's the truth .phil spencer has made xbox from being on the ground to bring in graveyard

Ik this post might get removed but just listen

When don mattrik took over the Xbox he introduced kinect which was successful so much but then he decided to focus only on that which led to people's backlash. This is the reason why ps3 took over 360 in sales at very end

And now phil spencer He first removed kinect good choice Backwards compatibility And more exclusive by purchasing studios

But the problem lies here They purchased studios but they didn't make any games exclusive so what was the point of any purchase . You released all the mid games .yet you want monopoly but aren't you getting so much money already for charging for online multiplayer you greedy ( could not play Fortnite/apex until 2021 because here gold was expensive since I am from country where 60 dollars is alot ) They purchased minecraft Didn't make it exclusive Activision - none games are exclusive Bethesda - some are some aren't

Basically I didn't understand the need to buy these studios and then they are complaining why consoles aren't selling

2nd point - bringing xbox games to pc was a pretty bad decision because then people just stopped buying xbox and just wwanted to milk money. Yes more people got to play but now people had less reason to buy an xbox.it would have been different had pc releases came like 2-3 months after the console release but no they were getting day one

The exclusive which came into other console console Cuphead ,PUBG , Roblox, Indiana jones ,

And one of big 3 . Forza . FRICKING FORZA HORIZON ON PS5 ARE YOU KIDDING ME. At this point even halo will come

At this point they only want money and just want to kill xbox

Now some might argue what about game pass

Look , game pass came in as a way to. Enjoy day one exclusive like a subscription type . But this doesn't work on games like it does on movies and all. Game pass was great but then it decided to just milk everything and was the reason of these decisions

Ik a controversial opinion

Phil spencer made xbox worse than what don mattrik did maybe because don left before things got worse but phil has made it worse . You know that it's wrong when things like forza are going to PS5. It's just idk what phil is thinking. He is doing what a game developer is doing and not someone as who's the head of a gaming console . He has made Xbox like sega and with the announcement of next gen console in 2-3 years and With switch 2 it's safe to say xbox series X will be last console of Xbox . And if they decide to introduce and Xbox it will be just as a tagline "Want a Machine that plays next gen games at 500 usd buy an xbox" As if 60 dollars on games which are 5 years old and charging for multiplayer will add up to that cost

They are older now. Gen Xers in their forties and fifties, wearing flannel from a decade that has not been in style for three. Some have ponytails streaked with gray. Others are bald but still refuse to shave the last wisps of hair. They were once graduate students, back when that meant something. They translated obscure Japanese games in cramped apartments where bookshelves sagged under the weight of thick paperbacks. Their copies of Derrida and Foucault were well-thumbed. Their Kanji dictionaries had creased spines. They spoke of ludonarrative dissonance before it was a term. They did not play Mario Kart. That was for children.

They never moved on. Others graduated to Dreamcasts, to PS2s, to careers. They did not. They lingered in academia, waiting for tenure that never came. They adjuncted. They edited copy for men who did not know the difference between 'affect' and 'effect.' They taught community college classes in the hopes that next year would be better. Next year was never better.

Most of them cannot afford a $1,000 emergency. They put five dollars in their gas tanks at a time and drive only when they must. Their Saturns hum in dimly lit rooms, hooked up to old CRT televisions that flicker slightly at the edges. They load discs into machines with aging lasers. They play Policenauts with a printout of the fan translation beside them. They play Radiant Silvergun and convince themselves that the mechanics are as layered as the essays they used to write.

"Life is a shipwreck, but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats," says Percival, whilst playing Deep Fear. The air gauge ticks downward. His character, alone in the depths, moves cautiously through rusted corridors, pursued by the consequences of a failed experiment. He once wrote a thesis on the influence of Enlightenment philosophy on modern storytelling. He never finished his PhD. He teaches high school now, American History to teenagers who do not care. He grades papers late at night, listening to the Saturn’s hum. He used to lecture on the absurdity of human struggle, about meaning forged in the void. Now he watches his students scroll on their phones, the void scrolling back. The only thing left that respects him is the Saturn.

They argue about Spinoza while maneuvering through Guardian Heroes. Michael, another one of them, was once a visiting professor. He had a two-year contract, then another, then nothing. Now he writes articles no one reads, freelance work for tech blogs that pay in exposure. His apartment is filled with books that used to mean something. "All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare," he mutters, pausing the game. He squints at the screen. His AI-controlled allies are making poor decisions. Perhaps they lack free will, bound to their preordained actions, just as he is bound to his decline. His Saturn sits in a corner, still connected to a television he bought second-hand from a thrift store. The world does not listen, but the Saturn still responds.

Eric, another Saturn devotee, believes that Princess Crown is a post-structuralist critique of the European fairy tale. "Stories do not mean what we think they mean," he says, his fingers resting on the controller. "They collapse under examination." He is not sure if he believes it, but it is something to say. The conversation makes him feel sharp, even as his body grows soft. He once taught a seminar on gender and myth in literature. That was before the university cut funding. He now works at a bookstore. He recommends Murakami to customers who ask for something literary, though he no longer reads much himself. He plays Princess Crown instead, searching for meaning where none may exist.

The Saturn has always been a hard machine to emulate, but perhaps the emulation community hasn't delivered because the men who love it are not Engineers. They are not men who build. They are men who critique. They spent their lives analyzing systems, never creating their own They were never really gamers. Not in the way the world understands the term. They are Saturn men, and the Saturn is them. A console too complex, too layered, too misunderstood. A console that never quite fit in. A console that, like them, was left behind.

Perhaps Fukuyama was right. History ended, and they were left with nowhere to go. They came of age in a world that promised struggle and revolution but delivered incremental decay. They expected dialectics and got inertia. They sought the sublime and found latency. Now they live in the long, gray afternoon of history, where the grand conflicts of their youth turned into software updates and lukewarm political movements. They speak of resistance but resist nothing. They tell themselves they have taste, that they alone have cultivated an appreciation for lost things, but even their Saturns are not artifacts—they are lifeboats. They have the poor phenotypes of men who have lived without purpose. They are soft and sun-starved, their shoulders rounded, their eyes set behind glasses too thick for their health insurance to cover. Their hands, once meant to turn pages and scrawl marginalia in books of philosophy, now tap lightly at controllers. Their foreheads shine in the light of old televisions. They shuffle in thrift-store sneakers, their stomachs bulging slightly beneath shirts with holes at the seams. Their lives resemble a game like Baroque, a Saturn dungeon crawler where one staggers endlessly through surreal ruins, dying and resurrecting with no clear purpose. They have died a hundred times—each rejection letter, each lost adjunct position, each unfinished project, each day spent talking to no one but the clerk at the gas station. And yet, they wake up again. The console hums, the disc spins. They pick up the controller. There is nothing else to do.

They were never really gamers. Not in the way the world understands the term. They are Saturn men, and the Saturn is them. A console too complex, too layered, too misunderstood. A console that never quite fit in. A console that, like them, was left behind. And yet, they are still here. The Saturn is still here. And for now, that is enough.

So I’ve had an Xbox one for a while now. Got it before the series x/s. I started thinking maybe I should upgrade it since now I’m getting limited with certain games I want to play that’s not available on Xbox one. Then I realized instead of upgrading, maybe I should just get a ps5 since they usually have those games that I want to play(one of them being The outer worlds 2). Now I’m having a hard time deciding on which ps5 to get. I’ve seen ppl say they like the original one but some like the ps5 slim and say that the pro is just way too much money(all it has is better graphics and no disc drive) so I’m at a stand still. Can you guys help me out!!

Thank you guys so much!! All of these responses are extremely helpful!!

Anyone know why this is happening, it seems to be random. I have unplugged the hdmi, shut both off, and still it displays like this… and i even tried changing hdmi ports. This happened before and i turned it off and all of the sudden it worked the next time i turned it on the following day.

I don't know if this is the right place to ask this and I'm sorry if it's not, but I need help from anyone that knows about these devices please! my boyfriends birthday is coming up and he's been really into these devices lately and mentioned that he's been wanting one (either a 3ds or a psp) so I've decided I'd get him one for his birthday but the thing is I don't know which one I should take since both devices have been mentioned and I don't know alot about them, he likes games like thug, devil may cry, cry of fear, silent hill, persona, hotline miami and others... so based on that which one do you think would be more suitable to his taste of games and a better present? thank you for the help in advance!

Well, looks like Nintendo is going to follow the 'New' Nintendo 3DS line product placement... so the Nintendo Switch 2 isn't going tu fully replace the Nintendo Switch that preceeded it but walking along with it as a premium offering. Next generation, definitely, having the chance to run exclusive games, but aiming at a different price target, with its bigger size and bigger screen, better plastics, exclusive features and so on. But what about you, would have you liked it to be a cheaper console fully replacing the Nintendo Switch or do you like the coexistence of both, having the new console placed as a premium next-gen, more performant but costlier option?

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So basically, I turned on my PS5 today, and all my game data is gone. The games are still there, but I’ve lost all my progress. Before starting the game, it shows the playtime, etc., but all the progress is wiped. Is there any way I can recover my game data?

I can't really understand how people can accept the playstation portal thing! they're paying hundreds of $ for what on Xbox you can do with your phone, the Xbox app and almost every controller for your phone with prices from a very cheap to less than 100$.

also the PS connection seems to be way worse than the Xbox one, I personally almost never had issue with mine and I didn't connected the Xbox through Ethernet, only disconnections were on bad phone connection (yes, I can play fine using the phone connection) based on location or, if using wi-fi, when I went to area of the house poorly reached by the wi-fi

so Sony instead of giving us an app that would have allowed the remote play, put it in a overpriced device that is no more than a DualShock with a cheap screen in it, and so many people are buying it, the future is really doomed

I have been an Xbox gamer since the 360 days and I absolutely love their holy trinity franchises (Halo, Gears of War and Forza). I got an XB1, upgraded it to XB1X and upgraded to Xbox Series X the moment it released.

I mostly enjoy shooters like COD, Destiny, Halo, Gears and Battlefield and I'm currently finishing DOOM 2016 next to grinding Path of Exile 2. I love what Gamepass offers and it is a perfect service for me to try new games but also get my main games included (COD, Halo, Gears, Forza).

I love the console experience, the features and Gamepass service while also preferring the Xbox controller allthough the Dualsense is a big improvement with PS5 (tried it but dont own a PS5).

However, while I don't mind my favorite games getting more exposure and players, I do mind how Microsoft seems to not even care anymore about their own consoles by putting them no longer front and center for their games' marketing. To be honest, it kinda feels like they don't market their games and consoles at all over here in Europe. There are so many people here in Europe that have no clue about Xbox Gamepass, for example, a friend of mine got a PS5 and didnt even know Xbox was backwards compatible or COD was included in Gamepass. He literally said he would have considered switching or would have bought an Xbox in the first place if he knew about it earlier. So many people just don't know and it shows in hardware sales declining A LOT and a lot more than the PS5. I blame Microsoft for not caring to show the world what Xbox consoles are about because they simply suck at marketing it.

Why do I care about sales? Because if this trend continues this gen and next gen I'm afraid we will no longer get Xbox consoles eventuallyand I endured their shitty XB1 generation and missed exclusives for nothing and could have had the best of both worlds if I bought a Playstation. What also stings is the fact that if Microsoft exits the console market after next gen than all my achievements and build up library will no be at one place (at least on console) and I stayed on Xbox while almost all my friends played on PS4 last gen (at least we have cross play and discord now). I have no interest in playing through the cloud or switching to PC, I just want a native experience that is plug and play.

So right now I'm wondering if I should buy a PS5 and slowly build a library over there through sales a d new releases while finishing my Gamepass subscription until it ends. What do you guys think about this and what would you do in this situation?

Hello guys, I’m considering buying an older gaming console for my kids. As they are still very young (8, 5 and 3 y.o.) it will not be used very often. Mostly I expect it to be in use only during bad weather or while they’re sick at home. Therefore I don’t want anything pricey - especially when I have no idea if they’ll like it at all or not.

I have three daughters, all of them like horses. So possibility of such games would be nice (not necessary) as well as being able to use three controllers at one time (again not necessary).

The older two already play time after time on a PC (wanted it mostly to learn them how to control the computer, mouse and keyboard) so they’re already familiar a little bit with such stuff.

I expect console controller to be easy and more intuitive for them as well as they can play together easily.

I’ll appreciate any tips. And I also understand that picking up the device is only one part, availability and price of the games is the other. Therefore I might prefer going for no online store stuff and go completely second hand.

Thank you very much for any recommendations and have a nice day.

Since some consider the Switch 2 the start of the 10th generation do you think it'll be the last generation that Xbox will be around in ?

Looking for a good retro emulator console that comes pre-loaded, you know, like the ones you see all over FB/Amazon that say 600 in 1, 15k+ games, etc. We bought an NES/SNES one that claims to have thousands of games, but a vast majority of them are weird Japanese alternative versions of mainstream games, half of which don’t even work, like they were someone’s unfinished pet project. Plus it doesn’t save progress.

Not wanting to buy a console/device and turn it into an emulator, just looking for a simple retro emulator console for my kiddos to play some of the old school games I played growing up.

Any advice? Thanks!

It's becoming more and more apparent, that last gen consoles are considered obsolete and outdated. Especially when compared to prior generations. Prior gen consoles are defined by there generation of software and there more unique hardware combinations, like the Cell Processor in the PS3, or the Motorola X68000 in the Sega Megadrive/Genesis or the SGI Graphics chips in the N64, the Power VR GPU in the Dreamcast, and the PS2's iconic Emotion Engine. Hardware today is no longer exotic. Instead utilising AMD APU's and Mobile Processors which makes hardware easier to make for manufacturers and eliminates the gap between PC hardware and console. Making it easier for Devs to port games over to multiple platforms.

And speaking of prior generations, you still can't natively play entire libraries of PS3, Xbox 360 or Wii/Wii U games anywhere else. And the same can be said about even earlier console generations, like the Dreamcast, OG Xbox, GameCube, PS2, N64, Sega Saturn, TurboGrafx, NES, SNES, 3DO, Neo Geo AES/MVS, Atari and handhelds like the PSP, GBA, GBC, Vita, 3DS etc. Which are all considered retro and collectable. And to play those games, you have to either stick to emulation. Or the official methods of game compilations or subscription/emulation based backwards compatibility. Like the now defunct Xbox Backwards Compatibility program. Which supports a limited amount of 360 and OG Xbox games, or you have to wait for some of those games to get ported or remastered. But many will never be ported over especially when there are many games that have licenses within them. Systems from those eras, along with those games are essentially natively exclusive to that hardware, that they were once released on and are therefore considered collectable.

But with 8th generation and onwards, console generations are now dead. We now have disposable consoles. Each one is an upgrade, just like mobile phones. Each new console will render the previous console completely obsolete and inferior in every single way. Especially when the servers for those shut down, many games may not even be playable without an internet connection. The PS5 and the Series X can do everything the PS4 and the Xbox One can, but better, better framerates, SSD Speeds, higher resolutions, much faster load times, and so on, and even those will eventually become obsolete. And the Switch is also going to be replaced by the Switch 2, which is going to also be an upgrade in almost every single way. And will likely play every single Switch game natively. But at least there is the unique versions of the Switch, like the Switch Lite and the Switch OLED, unless those also get replaced years down the line.

What do you think? Is the Xbox One, PS4 and the Switch considered outdated? Do you still have any of those consoles? There are some cool special editions of those consoles, but one way to make them a little less obsolete, is with the consoles, upgrade the HDD to an SSD and replace the thermal paste with liquid metal and perhaps even install custom firmware onto them. In a way, I don't mind the death of console generations. I think it's a good thing today, where there are two categories. Retro that has stood the test of time and is now considered a classic and collectable, like the N64.

And then there is the modern era which is something that isn't worth keeping around, like the VCR model Xbox One, base PS4, and the Switch, and most games today are multiplatform. Even the once exclusive games like Halo and God of War, since now importance has been placed on Live Service Games. Which makes PC platform the best way to experience new games and even some older games from 6th gen and beyond. Since Steam has been around for 20 plus years, giving you access to 20 years of games to buy, download and play on your PC. And I wonder how long will physical media be supported. It's also another thing that may end up being eliminated, just like how it is gone on PC. Perhaps by then the last physical media console PS6, PS7, Switch 3 etc, maybe considered collectable. But all of this just goes to show how much the console has changed. And how disposable consoles are today.

Essentially the only thing console manufacturers have to do today to get sales, is to just upgrade the console, that has all of the popular live service games with exclusive content, sell subscriptions, sell the disc drive separately, have limited storage space since most people will play 1 to 3 games at most and success.

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I'm looking to start playing video games casually again and am having trouble finding the right system for me. Essentially I'm looking for a good balance of nostalgia and modern tech. As a kid I played a good amount of video games. I had an N64, then a PS2, and then a PS3. I got back into video games in my early twenties and had an Xbox One, which I enjoyed. I got rid of it at some point but then 5 years ago got an Xbox 360 specifically so I could play Star Wars Battlefront.

The system died on me a couple of years ago and I never replaced it. I have a friend with a 360 and we occasionally play Battlefront together, and it's got me thinking that I want my own system again, though I'm having trouble determining Xbox vs Playstation and which generation is best for what I want. Here are the factors most important to me:

• A decent selection of available games to purchase. I don't anticipate buying a ton of games, but I'd like at least a decent shooter, GTA, Madden, and an MLB game.
• A system that came out during a good era of games. It would be fun to have the option to pick up some cool and unique games. By no means to I need the latest and most cutting-edge, but for the sports games in particular, I'd like them to not feel too dated. (I tried a couple sports games on my 360 when I had it and it was okay, but it felt just a tad too old).
• Price. I'm not too up on what used systems typically go for, but I'd say $300 is my absolute max, and ideally I'd spend less than that.

Thanks for any tips/insight, and please chime in too if you think there are other factors I should be considering.

We all know that Forza is coming to the Ps5 later this year, but every post I've seen about Forza on Ps5 the comments are like "well xbox should get gow or gt7 in exchange" like bro it's not a trade, microsoft made the decision to bring it to Ps5 Playstation doesn't owe you shit, aswell I've seen one comment on a forza ps5 post "Playstation players should not buy and play fh5 because that would be disrespectful to xbox players that grinded the game" I swear that theese types of fans have got to be the most delusional and smoothbrained people known to man.