If Sonic 3 (1994) was retro in 2002, then why isn't a 2018 game retro in 2026?
Semiconductor manufacturing has stopped advancing rapidly. RTX 2070 from 2018 still runs the latest AAA games quite well in 2026.
>>12931841Games from 1994 were already 'retro' in 1996. The 3D era suddenly values very different things from the pseudo arcade focused era that was the early 90s.
>>12931841Somehow PS3 isn't even retro yet, it makes no sense. 20 year old console btw..
>>12931841Sonic 3 is safe retro. It has saves and on-rails spectacle bullshit. Others include Super Metroid and every Zelda game barring 2
>>129318412002 is deep into 3D era, 16-bit 2D (on home consoles) was extremely dated by that point. R2D2 is the typical linear open world garbage like the average 2026 AAA game. There's nothing old fashioned about it. To finish your analogy, imagine if Sonic Advance 2 came out as a mainline title on Dreamcast et al. instead of being a mere spinoff for the GBA and everyone said it's a modern game. That's what GTA 6 is.
>>12931841Because they want to keep selling it for 60
>>12931841Similarly, the video game industry matured alongside us—the mainstream audience—and many of us can associate the leap from 2D to 3D with our puberty or coming-of-age, a time when we experienced everything more intensely and a game from five years prior felt like something from when you were just a kid. Now, for those of us who still support this hobby, everything feels gray and monotonous because we've turned into fat old folks and the industry no longer moves forward.
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>>12931841>If Sonic 3 (1994) was retro in 2002, then why isn't a 2018 game retro in 2026?For home consoles, if it was made for a CRT then it is retro. For handhelds, anything pre Vita / 3DS is retro.>whyVibes.
>>12931880"They" being Rockstar.Sega makes nothing from that ebay sale.
You posted this in /v/ faggot and you got your answersGo away
