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If Next-Gen Is Too Pricey Go Retro

Posted by Zonk on from the so-forward-it-is-backwards dept.

Via RetroGaming with Racketboy, a story in the San Francisco Chronicle suggesting that you go retro if the new consoles are too expensive. They single out the (still excellent) Sega Dreamcast console as the best buy for your money vs. enjoyment. The folks at SF Gate also mention several other older games and consoles that will allow modern gamers their fun without breaking the bank. From the article: "Scenario 4: I'm poorer than any of the characters from 'Angela's Ashes' but not quite as poor as Jim Braddock's family when the heat got shut off in 'Cinderella Man.' (I pulled this newspaper out of the recycling bin at BART.): You've presented a challenge, but not an impossible one. I saw a copy of the PC game Grim Fandango, a complete masterpiece that most people never played, for $6 on eBay. Since it came out in 1998, you can probably find an abandoned computer on the curb that will play it. You'll be experiencing about 98.5 percent of the fun that the Getty heir who bought the PS3 is having, at about 1 percent of the price. "

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  1. Re:Blah,blah,blah,Zonk,PS3 too expensive,FUD,blah, by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Holy shit! A fanboy that's a moron? That's a first!

    First, the 360 has an installed base of under 5 million - verified - worldwide sales numbnuts.

    Second, dummy, a dedicated server is just that Einstein. Dedicated. It is running connections with a maximum of 40 at a time.

    Microsoft's shitty online service has nothing to do with the million or two retards willing to pay 50 dollars a year just for the 'privilege' of playing online games, but with the fact that Microsoft can't handle setting up dedicated servers like Sony. End of story.

    Learn to keep you dimwitted mouth shut in the future dumbfuck.

  2. Re:Blah,blah,blah,Zonk,PS3 too expensive,FUD,blah, by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Wow, you really impressed us with that bit of italics!

    "As a computer programmer by trade"

    Go back to Visual Basic sport, cuz you don't know shit about game engines. The physics engine alone in PS3 games like Motorstorm, thanks to the massive floating point power of the Broadband Engine's SPUs, is far, far, far, far beyond anything the ~6gigaflop PS2 could handle.

    You don't have a clue.