Gen Z gamers may be too based for this erth

>>742987808
Economic radicalism will not be tolerated

>>742987808
Gen Z is low key based, it's alphies I'm very concerned about. it appears half of them don't even know how to read.

>>742987808
I don't doubt they somehow try and make retro gaming illegal and I am 100% serious.

>>742988032
they will be forced to encounter us within online spaces and probably will pick it up

>>742987808
this is another reason to get rid of physical
for better or worse, shops like GAMESTOP give easy access to these older consoles
without them, anyone looking to get one has to wade into the online speculative market

>>742987808
If it starting to become a problem they can always enforce whatever copyright rule they have for this type of situation.

>>742987808
>DUDE THE SHAREHOLDERS
Fuck off

>grew up watching millenialbros play stream games
>current prices raping hardware
>Chinks making retro handhelds for cheap
>roms more accessable than ever
>India raping microsoft makes PC gaming hard
>too stupid for linux
>too poor for macbooks

Retro gaming is the only way to game in the modern age. Everything sucks. Embrace it. Be a hipster and play old shit.

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Shareholders are pivoting toward 2 options now, either abandon video games altogether or go full force with digital-only to save costs and hope casuals stay. GTA 6 is their test water.

>>742988032
Aren't alphies like 6 years old?

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>>742987808
Just do what china did and introduce emulation devices that look like a psp and a 3ds.
Fucking genius idea.

>>742988237
Wonder how that number is affected by emulators.

>>742988178

How do you enforce that people stop playing the consoles that they have owned since the 80s and 90s?

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They did this to themselves.

>>742988239
The oldest are like 16.

>>742988302
I don't think that study even has emus into consideration

>>742988132
That is assuming (((they))) don't shut the internet down, or their brains get fried from short term video content first.

>>742988060
The article isn't even about retro gaming. It's about old games.

>>742988332
You can prohibit their resale. Nintendo (and Sony) have attempted to do so in Japan

I've been replaying shit on my old gba sp too so I can't really blame them
Had to get a new shell because apparently I had the only model that didn't use nintendium and a new battery

>>742988060
Physical will decline into scarcity so they won’t have to do anything. Their and every large tech company’s focus is putting your every electronic interaction through the cloud in order to inform your social credit score or “Van meter”.

Let games play themselves if you stop playing them for more than several seconds or after a button press.
Have a lot more auto aim, as in if it's on screen then it's hit.
Make games for high contrast, low gamma, low brightness, so can't see much in the dark.
Many ways to do things. No doors requiring puzzles solved.
Start out overpowered and very easy. Get harder as you progress.
Fun to play, go fast, go over jumps. See a lot. No pressure to waste time checking out every nook and cranny.
A lot of dialogue options. And don't say them after they are selected just move on to the response.
Custom character. A lot of clothes for them. Some good (supermodel) defaults.
Make looking around smoother, like input inertia that slows, weighted, it's been done well in some fps underwater game, look nearly always moving makes it better to aim with.
Make most input read the second stick. Have a lazer/camera under the bottom of the stick or something. Get rid of the 2 point reading-securing squstem. Have stick secured by at least 8 or 16 springs. Make circular movement have the same resistance all round. Maybe make sticks taller, and very easy to move, nearly no resistance, resistance just to centre it when not held.
Use concept art and ai. Have more 2D traversal. Both pseudo 3D and 2D. save pseudo 3D for some sections that require it, or combat. Have full 3D when it can blend into the same quality as 2D.
Low res. Ignore critics. Low res is the answer. So is multiple interlacing. A lot of blur and motion blur for a lot more performance. Need blur anyway for aa and to hide compression and low poly.
Straght in. No menus, no load times. Immediately doing things.
No invalidators, no psychology, no pretending rapists are real people.

>>742988393
What the fuck

Why do you keep making this thread

>>742989024
And most importantly, publicly castrate the creator of the bot I'm replying to.

>>742989024
What are your opinions on the Time Cube?

>>742988546
The high seas will love that.

>>742988543
>The article isn't even about water. It's about H2O.

They will realize the reason older games do not get as much flak was because there is not many things to talk about.

>>742988546
>You can prohibit their resale

No you can't actually. You would have to rewrite quite a few laws to accomplish that.

>>742987808
((((GREEMBAUM))))
>>742987910
yea stfu and go back to pay me rent, zoomie

>>742989227
That, and old games are infinitely better than modern shit.

Its funny retards ITT actually think younglings are actually playing old games despite most data showing newer games are more popular

>>742988237
>Shareholders are pivoting toward 2 options now, either abandon video games altogether

Oh god please let this happen
Videogames would be SO much better of all companies just stopped making them

>>742989087
Roughly 2010-2025, just like how Gen Z is roughly 1995-2010 and Millennials are roughly 1980-1995.

From a business perspective Nintendo probably has the best strategy with their online service, which provides a big curated retro library of games with a universal and easy to use interface for things like save states. Doesn't mean you're still not a sucker paying 70$ for old Roms instead of emulating, but from a business perspective it's a good way to keep the clueless normies within your "ecosystem" and giving you money.

>>742989239
>No you can't actually.
Oh, really? But
>You would have to rewrite quite a few laws to accomplish that.
So it's possible. And they've tried to exactly this

>>742987808
>even though you can legitimately store every single nes snes sega n64 ect game ever made on your computer in like 10gb you should actually have the physical cartridge or disc because thats actually le heckin cool and is not a forced meme and its what everyone is actually doing and its the underdog smart idea

>>742989745
Physical means control. It means it can never be taken away from you. THAT is why companies try to phase it away. It has nothing to do with space or savings, those are incidental. They just want total control, total freedom to rip you off any way they like.

>>742987910
>generation that made Fortnite the most popular game on the planet is le so based

>>742988237
>>742987808
i can hear a faint little accent going
>"MOVE ON GOY MOVE THE FUCK ON GOY PLEASE BUY THE DIGITAL ONLY SLOPPPPP GOY AAAAAAAAA

>>742989415
I doubt that. I don't think kids have any money, so turn to emulation because it doesn't have viruses and is free. They play pedo craft and pedo nite. And when they are sick of bad gameplay that is just a token consideration with the real thing being drawing them into playing the shit... when they are done with a miserable game experience they seek out old stuff that is said to be good, or try out a lot and find out what is good, developing taste and the ability to tell what is and isn't shit.

>>742989852
Stop owning your childhood stuff.
Give it away, sell it, get rid if it.

>>742987808
make games for chuds again otherwise i fully support all the zoomers buying chink rom handhelds

>>742989852
>Physical means control.
physical means you're in a controlled and enclosed environment where they can afford to give you plastic since they've taken everything else

>>742988272
Wait, they have 3DS clones? Link me up.

>>742987808
criminalize piracy at all costs

>>742990375
There's a lot of them with the 3DS and 2DS form factor, but I wouldn't call them 3DS clones necessarily because they don't do the 3D shit
The Ayn Thor is one, along with the Ayaneo Pocket DS and a more DS lite thing from Anbernic

>>742989415
Zoomers are, like, 30 now.

>>742990826
>Yes to big corpos!
>No to consumers!
Uh-huh.
Consumers also shouldn't fix what they own. In fact they shouldn't own what they own. It's all a lease now! You leased that apple!

>>742987808
WW3

>>742991279
>Consumers also shouldn't fix what they own.
they are already doing that. remember seeing some farmers getting fucked over because their tractor have parts that the seller did not have for sale so they couldn't be repaired and some were sued for being able to do so without those parts.

remember that the iphone only has regular usbc because the eu parliament had to force it

>>742988032
>t. Zoomer

>>742988237
Despite being only 14% of the population, Chuds account for more than half of economic terror incidents.

i was doing this as a poor zoomer in 2006 already

>>742987808
what problem? the fuck are you talking about

>>742991450
>Farmers must buy seeds from big corpo because corpo owns the patents on plantlife
>Get sued if corpo plants do what plants do and spread
It's beyond fucked

>>742988239
We had a 16 year old intern last year, that was the oldest Genª specimen.
It wasn't as bad as i expected but still, constantly playing phone games, barely any eye contact, sounded/acted like he was on Thorzine 24/7, etc If this was one of the smarter ones then ye it's gonna be bad

>>742990375
>3DS clones
Not 3DS clones but plenty of dual screen handhelds that can play 3DS games without the 3D effect. Also for about the same price as a "new 3DS XL" which is grim. They can also play steam games like the Ayn Thor.

>>742990375
Google Ayn thor. Can't post a link. Cloudflare is being gay as fuck.
Didn't get one personally because I had my ds snap on me in the past. Other anons say the design is good though.

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>>742989976
Fortnite MINECRAFT > COD HALO FIFA GTA

>>742992457
It's good IF you buy the grip. It is somehow the least ergonomic/comfortable handheld ever made despite visually being similar to the 3DS. I dunno how they fucked it up that bad but I sold mine because of it. Was perfect otherwise, fit in my pocket, etc. But wasn't going to tolerate having to carry around a separate grip in my backpack that I have to slap on my pocket handheld when I want to play for more than 10 minutes.
It will get Rocknix soon so it will genuinely be one of the best handhelds in the world at that point. Native Steam ARM with built-in FEX so no more shady knock-off fex emulators like GameNative or whatever they fuck they call those.

>>742992619
>It is somehow the least ergonomic/comfortable handheld ever made
Damn that's awful. Glad I got a retroid 6

>>742988546
Nintendo never did you lying faggot

Didn't we all convict retro games as being for zoomers? We don't like that, right? We ALL like our newslop.

>>742988060
Under what pretenses? What threat to the country would retro gaming pose?
Also, how would you even enforce a ban like that?

>>742987808
Buy some chinkheld and charge a premium for it

>>742987808
>>742987910
great, now these retards are going to further drive the price of retro just because their generation fucking sucks

>>742993189
Retard newfaggot, yes they fucking did. Nintendo tried to ban used game sales, read
https://scholarship.law.vanderbilt.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1463&context=jetlaw

>>742994609
>overturn that one case that made emulators legal, which would probably happen in the neo-Lochner era we live in now
>crack the fuck down on emulation
it's that shrimple

>>742989976
its what they had because of their faggot gen x parents buying it to them. gen z then swiftly woke up and realized that modern gaming is dogshit and now look back at old games. simple as that. this is also supposedly a bad thing now according to /v/irgin moviegame millennials.

>>742995352
That dual screen Ayn thor whatever the fuck is pretty cool. Kinda expensive but pirating old nintendo DS/3DS games and playing them on a chinkheld feels somehow empowering.

>>742989415
new games are popular with established millennial loser whales who just spend like crazy because of their neverending appetite for consoomption. gen z is not engaging as much because we dont have money and we realize that most modern games are shit. its the reason there has been such an explosion of non-stop fucking remakes over and over to cash in on the nostalgia of fucking millennial loser retards who are incapable of moving on and love consuming an inferior artistically raped version of their childhood games.

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>>742987808
Just unironically officially rerelease the Game Boy with the bare minimum of modern updates:
>backlit screen
>wireless link cable functionality while also providing a physical USB-based link option
>no built-in battery pack - users must bring their own, preferably rechargeable batteries
>new production run of the Sharp SM83 and other hardware except that they are smaller, more efficient versions that reduce the power consumption even further
>no GBC bullshit - devs must conform to original GB limitations, all new games must be fully compatible with original GB hardware
>encourage small dev outfits to produce games that will target the $10~30 price range

>>742988060
they can't ban software but they can take our hard drives away and prevent zoomers from learning how to use computers and stuff. It pretty much worked until tiktok started making it cool to share "Secret tech".

>>742995741
>s buying it to them.
zoomers/Alphies have supported the F2P model for games like Fortnite for the past decade because lol no money and or cheap to buy games now, Gen X didn't buy them shit.

>>742987808
Get rid of the jews.

No seriously.

Everything has gone to shit because of shareholders like Blackrock stripping every business they touch to the bone, and the culture was destroyed by gamergate, which was also a jewish effort.

Let Whites and Japanese control the companies and make the games they want out of passion, and this shitshow will improve real fucking fast.

>>742996279
only zoomers in the US and western europe struggle. its still huge among young zoomers today in eastern europe for instance to be tech/computer savvy and torrent shit.

>>742996293
not defending that, obviously, but it was a case of ignorance. just sheer underexposure to other shit. fortnite was basically all they knew and now theyre waking up. i fail to see how this is bad. zoomers are breaking free from the enshittification cycle that was started by and perpetuated by millennials.

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Sucks for the industry. I'm gonna do some economic terrorism and play some N64 games.

>>742987808
idk man..
not sure if anybody in business considered it, but perhaps making good games might be a way to tackle the problem.

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Apparently GoG was testing the waters for physical releases not too long ago. An Evercade collab honestly might be their best route.

>>742988546
The police are not going to give two shits about random people selling consoles to one another. This might impact places like GameStop, but it will just become another law no one enforces.

>>742987808
I have to assume this is a very very small number of young people doing this.

I doubt zoomers give a fuck about games from old machines like the gameboy and ps1 and n64. I would even doubt they would play ps2 or gamecube games.

>>742991920
Generations blend around the edges, oldest zoomers have a lot in common with youngest millenials, you got the zoomer-alpha blend. Give it a few years until the bulk of the cohort catches up.

>>742996441
and its millennials that are selling you their old tech,they aren't breaking free of anything.

>>742987808
Make better games

My sister is a zoomer and she thought the myioo mini thing was cool and she played with it for a while. Keep in mind she is someone who barely gives a fuck about video games at all and the last time she had any game console was the DS Lite. So zoomers might play old games but its probably just a brief novelty they do for a few days or a few weeks before moving on to something else.

Just re-release the PS2 with a HDMI port lmao it's fucking simple.

>>742987808
How much longer can AAA keep going while misreading the room?

>>742997237
anon you are better off re-releasing ps3/ games for zoomers, the console they grewup with not the console they couldn't play as an infant or toddler

bot thread

>>742997237
And the GB/GBC/GBA/DS/PSP

>>742997564
Are you stupid?

>>742997721
no
are you underage?

>>742987808
That's complete BS.
Gen z can't play old games coz they're """too clunky""" and don't have enough story.

>>742996263
>>encourage small dev outfits to produce games that will target the $10~30 price range
You end up with garbage if you do that.

>>742998389
>Silksong
>Pizza Tower
>Mina the Hollower
>Terraria
>all 20 dollars or less

Yeah nah.

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>>742987808
jewish shareholders and retro scalpers HATE this ONE SIMPLE TRICK.

>>742998916
I wouldn't consider Mina indie when they can waste thousands on a fancy studio in an expensive city.

>>743000012
>>743000000
They were still able to release it at 20, despite wasting tons of money and nearly going bankrupt, and the sales helped them stabilize.

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>>742988239
>>742988032
>tfw when there are alphies browsing /v/
>tfw one straight up told me he was on the school computer
Parents really do not give a single fuck, don't they?

>>742995630
>overturn emulation
That is probably the one thing that will spring people into action. And or making an underground scene

>>742987808
Enslave all goyim, implant mind control chips in their brains and force them to buy whatever you order them to buy.

>>742989154
Retro doesn't mean old, retard.

>People want retro games/consoles
>Making/producing new consoles is expensive
>Making/producing new games is expensive
>there is a huge retro market out there, that the company has no hand in
It should be obvious. They put out a 2026 Gameboy that plays GB-GBA games natively. The reprint the carts.

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>>743000302
>parents really do not give a single fuck, do they?
ftfy zoomer bro. I may be an ESL but I always try

>>742995953
One of my millennial relatives does this shit and drives me up the wall. It's ironic that a zoomer is telling them to play the originals over the remakes

>>742995440
You shouldn't have scalped pokemon cards unc

>>742996632
>>742997020
Maybe you're on to something

>>742989306
>old games infinitely better than modern shit.
absolutely not.
why aren't you on /vr/ instead then?

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>>742989415
"youngling" here, eat my fucking dick you fat nigger ESL
capped straight from my ps2 hooked up to an easycap

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>>743000807
supposedly this thing runs those natively but is also quite expensive.
recreating cartridges is another matter. just get an evercade and you're golden

>>742989976
fortnite is only as popular as it is because brown people don't have to pay to play it.

>>743000876
>It's ironic that a zoomer is telling them to play the originals over the remakes
Who do you think played the originals when they came out? zoomcucks are so fucking stupid it's unreal.

>>742988202
>too stupid for linux
just install bazzite, it just werks, i havent done any tinkering, all games ive thrown at it has worked immidiately but i dont play anti-cheat multiplayer garbage

I like to buy retro consoles and then get whatever flashcard/ODE/CFW option is available
Get the proper experience without having to blow hundreds on games

>>742987808
lobby to make it illegal to buy old games secondhand
give the old fucks a wad of cash and tell them to say old games don't have modern "safety features"

>>743002317
No shit retarded faggot, we were talking about millennial whales playing the shitty remakes instead of the classics. Jesus fucking christ stop posting.

>>742987808
Is it foolish to hope that companies will now reprint functional physicals of old games at reasonable prices?

>>743000807
>Somalia is sitting on a huge cache of PS2s
>would rather shit up the West with their bulb headed scams and subpar fried beans
Fuck em send those crates our way so we can have a renaissance of the classics. Snoy is clearly too interested in doing the dirty work of the WEF to give a damn about vidya anymore.

>>742987808
>image: original gb
>actual consoles making a comeback: xbox 360, 3ds, ps4
or some bullshit

>>742987808
Just print faux retro consoles like Nintendo was doing some years ago

>>742987910
Retarded faggot.

>>742988032
>low key
nice try zoomie
get the fuck off this website

>>742987808

Start making something original, with a reasonable price and without dlcs, gamepass or subscribtions, here is the solution

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That article is paid for by someone who sells retro games and devices. There is no movement or trend, but someone with something to gain is trying to engineer one.

>>742987808
You make a better product
Pffffhahahah nah, I'm kidding, you lobby the government to kill physical hardware and stop selling repair parts

>>743011418
Oy vey

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>>742988202
>11000 "retro" roms
>10500 are worthless licensed 4/10 garbage made to trick kids

There's like maybe 300 games made before 2000 that are still good.
Even the Atari 2600 and Commodore 64 are absolutely packed with licensed slop.

>uncs have filtered all the great games from shovelware slop for you, you can just play 10/10s of every console library ever and not run out of shit to play
>new games also coming out on a regular basis, play whatever peaks your interest
we zoomers have been truly blessed, I'm so glad we will be the first generation that will get to retirement (haha) while playing best vidya of all times

>>743000302
Would have been the same for me if not for the fact 4chan didn't exist until I was already in college.

>>742987808
You make good games. An insurmountable challenge for the current industry.

>>742987808
Based on what data?

kill yourself spammer

>>742987808
AA games

>>743000302
Where the fuck are the teachers?

>>742988202
>India raping microsoft
???

theyre buying them as an """"""""""""investment""""""""""""" btw

>>742987808

How do confront the problem of political consumer backlash as a producer? You hold onto your seat and hope the crowd don't mob you.

>>742987808
Rereleasing old games conveniently and cheaply and with some extras.

>>743014181
But you spent most of your life playing roblox, minecraft or overwatch

>>742987808
this is just a fraction of zoomers, the grand majority still plays the usual f2p/gacha slop