> Yeah I just know the shit moves dev'rs do having worked at Midway and they did
> shady shit in a pinch. Sony is to blame for the BC removal to lower costs and
> the damn Ken crap and overpricing. Outside that sure the PS3 is a bit hard to
> work with, but in perspective so was the PS2, Saturn before that from Sega, and
> so on...nothing new.
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> Beta release as final is infuriating and I hate the overaccepting turds of the
> gaming media making it ok by pandering the awesomeness of HDDs being a fix all,
> sure it is, fix your broken shit (hopefully) fix all after launch.
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> My nes is a 1985 unit, it turns 25 this year and it still works. I don't see
> any of the systems of this generation lasting that long, at least not a lot of
> them like NES, SNES, and N64 would. Fall apart systems seemed to be accepted in
> the Gamecube and Dreamcast era stuff forward, and it's bullshit. The GC I'm not
> even certain will last that long, probably not as the disc drive seems to love
> even new harshly pop and click when tracking, the DC was flimsy, the PS2 loved
> to melt down, and the xbrick loved to overheat, eat up discs, glitch up a
> little, and for a time overheated and could go on fire from the cord in back(saw
> one burst into flames at Midway and it wasn't even on long and newly in from MS
> weeks earlier.) Stuff this gen none will last, Wii included as that drive seems
> flimsy and it gets bitchy about double sided discs. Handhelds will be the last
> to last long, Nintendo ones since they refuse to use optical media.
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