I’m not being defensive, just realistic. I don’t have any skin in the game, I have never owned a console other than the original NES.
The emulation options has only been reasonably feasibly recently and I say reasonably because there’s more going into emulation than you seem to understand. PCs can do most old consoles because we have the processing power to run both the emulation, the game in question as well as having the hardware infrastructure being designed with multipurpose utility in mind. Consoles are not, they are of streamlined design for the express purpose of playing games. Tasking a console to also emulate a different hardware setup is not as simple as just installing ePSXe on it.
For sure it can be done, but I doubt it could be done well for previous gens, there’s simply not enough power in a PS4 to emulate the PS3 hardware AND run PS3 games. So you get NES titles on the switch and PS1-2 titles on the PS4 and that’s yer lot.
Why can’t they just dump their entire old libraries onto their digital stores and call it a day? Everyone would be happy to buy their old games to play them on new hardware. Well a lot of boring legal as well as practical reasons, for many games it’s simply the case that old code just doesn’t exist anymore, old assets needs updating, formats converted and licenses renewed.
Obviously there’s also a profitability calculation in the works, you’re making a new console you want to make new exciting games for it so people want to buy it. Well now you’ve spent millions of dollars on tech showcase games you want people to actually buy and play those games so that they talk about how amazing the new latest graphics you can only get on your new hardware is. There’s simply very little benefit to putting the time, effort and money into getting people to replay their old games, particularly as people wont be that keen on paying full price for them.
Companies do what they do to make money, not to make people happy. It is only an accident when those two goals randomly meet.
When people ask why the world is not as ideal a place as they imagine it could be and have no understanding of the underlying reasons they tend to imagine evil machinations afoot just for the sake of making people miserable. This is rarely actually the case and so when I DO have insight on a topic I endeavor to share it, hoping I might be able to dispel this dark outlook on the world where evil seems to exist just for the sake of evil.
@Danacscott Oh i think he would love your pets . And yes , Fenri is just simplified version of Fenrir. But in my tongue Fenrir is a bit of a mouthful , since you need to add ‘as’ at the end so it i would “Fenriras” which doesnt roll off the tongue so well around these parts So he became ‘Fenri’ or ‘Fenris’ ( S get added at the end in this case ) which a bit easier to pronounce. Still i got told that it is a bit tricky to pronounce .
We had a bird strike yesterday. it was a Junco. I really try to not clean our picture window too much because of the bird feeders being right there but they still sometimes hit it. Especially if the hawks around.
We went to check on it and it was still alive just dazed…Plus we are getting snow and it’s very cold out there. We had watched a wildlife rehab show that said to just gently pick it up and put it in a small paper bad and bring it in and put it in a warm quiet place. We did that and 3 hours later it started moving around and 4 hours later you could tell it really wanted out. It was just pecking at the bag. Picked the bag up and took it outside; opened the bag and it just flew out. Yea, US
That’s pretty bad, worst that happened to me was a car that was stopped to my right. I was in the left-turn lane trying to take a left. We were all stopped at a red. On green + arrow for me, I start moving and this car to my right accelerated into the space immediately in front of me and took the left turn instead of going straight. It was crazy and totally stupid.
I took this meowski. thx vry much. I remember buying this game when it first came out and then refunding it, lol, but i think i’m gonna give it another try some time. installing as we speak
I can’t show any pictures of why I was out there in the first place, partly because I really didn’t take any. But after I was done with business I got to go to New York City.
Unfortunately, we didn’t have tickets to see the Statue of Liberty and they close really early. We chose not to waste time in line and still likely miss out.
After that, rode the subway to lunch (no picture).
So he became ‘Fenri’ or ‘Fenris’ ( S get added at the end in this case ) which a bit easier to pronounce. Still i got told that it is a bit tricky to pronounce .
