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if i didn't touch computers for money then yeah i'd be all about having a computer for video games. but i do, so 🤷♀️
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Apr 10, 2021 18:29
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With a ps5 controller it's basically the same thing only more powerful
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Apr 10, 2021 18:37
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Jim Silly-Balls posted:Honestly this generation, like last generation, is best served with a Switch and a PC God forbid you need vid card however
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Rated PG-34 posted:God forbid you need vid card however This was why I made the deliberate choice to step off the pc gaming hardware treadmill in 2000 and go with consoles.
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Apr 10, 2021 18:54
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Yeah Nintendo also does the same artificial shortage crap like Nvidia does, it's so lame.
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Apr 10, 2021 20:40
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i remember it being really obnoxious to buy a video card in like 2017, and it seems much much worse now. the fact that they seem to cost as much as a console once you find one definitely helps keep me away from computer gaming
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Apr 10, 2021 20:59
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Senator Drinksalot posted:Yeah Nintendo also does the same artificial shortage crap like Nvidia does, it's so lame. 
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Apr 10, 2021 21:00
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Also it would be cool if Nintendo allowed me to backup my savegames (no I'm not paying for their online service) but I guess ~piracy~Achmed Jones posted:i remember it being really obnoxious to buy a video card in like 2017, and it seems much much worse now. the fact that they seem to cost as much as a console once you find one definitely helps keep me away from computer gaming 
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orcane posted:Also it would be cool if Nintendo allowed me to backup my savegames (no I'm not paying for their online service) but I guess ~piracy~ Huh, Switch does that too?
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Apr 10, 2021 21:04
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It only lets you backup savegames to cloud storage, which requires a (paid) Nintendo Switch Online membership. I think the only stuff you can manually save to the SD card so it's user-accessible is screenshots etc.?
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Apr 10, 2021 21:29
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See: NES + SNES Classic, Amiibo, Mario 3D All Stars
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Apr 10, 2021 21:48
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Usually you can get a 'good enough' video card for something like $200-$400 that'll run just about anything at 60 FPS or beyond at 1080p. The top, top end gets expensive, but that's for folks who want something way, way past console standards. And usually can stand up for multiple new cycles of video card (my five year old 1080 is still running most anything at 1440/144fps at high or max settings.) I mean, right now video cards are a bitch, but it's not an isolated problem, considering PS5s and XBox Series Xs are even harder to find then an nVidia 30XX line card unless you're willing to pay a scalper almost double retail.
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Jim Silly-Balls posted:Honestly this generation, like last generation, is best served with a Switch and a PC I lucked out and got a ps5 a couple of weeks after launch so I'm using that in place of a PC this time around, at least until the price drops on PC parts.
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Okay, so I popped into the shop on my VitaTV and basically had a miserable time trying to find the games I wanted to buy, eventually giving up and not giving Sony money when I couldn't find at least half of them. Really do want to pick up what I can before the shop goes down, but the odds of seeking out  methods are increasing as I actually am having a hard time finding the games that used to be on my wishlist before that got deleted. Also searching for "suikoden" only brings up the first one and not the second one, which I thankfully picked up already when the webstore still worked  gently caress Sony. Rant over.
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Nopaystation recently added an option to open PSN links from the PS3 and Vita web browsers. You don't need to have your console modded and you won't be pirating this way, just access NPS's website from the console browser and click the Open in PS3/Vita buttons, they should open the webstore app on the game you want. Once again not linking cuz of but yeah (Those are all the suikoden results btw)
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Apr 11, 2021 07:15
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It's insanely frustrating that the Vita store just. doesn't list all the games that work on the Vita.
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Picked up Hot Shots Golf, excellent game and probably my last psn vita purchase. End of an era.
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Senator Drinksalot posted:Picked up Hot Shots Golf, excellent game and probably my last psn vita purchase. End of an era. love that game. its definitely the best game in the franchise and probably the best game on the vita
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Never tried the series before and am quite surprised that it's as in depth as a more serious sim like the Golf Club. Gonna be putting a lot of time in on this more than likely.
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Sony reversed, PS3 and Vita stores are staying open. PSP is still getting shut down. Dunno if this means PSP games will no longer be on the Vita store though.
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Oh, so when all of the gaming blogs/vlogs spent the past two weeks going "Honestly, piracy is going to be the only option with how bad Ebay is right now" they saw reason.
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Apr 20, 2021 00:10
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They don't make money from ebay either, i dunno why they'd care
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Dr. Fishopolis posted:They don't make money from ebay either, i dunno why they'd care I think it may be more that the announcement caused a flood (including in this thread) of people saying "Cool, you are giving tacit permission to pirate poo poo" and they wanted to shut that the hell up immediately. Like, people are gonna pirate things regardless, but the louder and more brazen people are about it, the more people who wouldn't otherwise be bothered get sucked in. Case in point: while my Vita was already cracked, my PS3 was not until three days ago because I simply didn't care enough. I figured better safe than sorry. And they probably aren't losing a ton of sales to people like me (I mean, I already bought most of the games I really care about anyhow), but I think they want to keep discussion of this stuff from bubbling over, and it very much did in reaction to the shutdown. They have to maintain the file servers anyhow, at this point the webstore can't possibly cost that much to maintain (I mean...loving look at it!), and even if it only means they make $10 a month from random people remembering to buy Suikoden, it's worth it to keep the underground convos underground.
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They probably got a bunch of angry calls too
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I think it's more a question of appearances. They thought no one would care, many probably didn't, but the principle of it pissed a lot of people off. It was a lot of bad PR for something that probably doesn't actually cost them much.
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Did they change leadership recently? Seems they've made a series of unpopular decisions since the ps5 came out
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Some while before the PS5 launched they had a big shakeup. Sony seems to do that every gen for some reason.
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George RR Fartin posted:They have to maintain the file servers anyhow, at this point the webstore can't possibly cost that much to maintain (I mean...loving look at it!), and even if it only means they make $10 a month from random people remembering to buy Suikoden, it's worth it to keep the underground convos underground. File servers aren't expensive, but keeping webstores from circa 2006 and 2012 perpetually safe from hackers is a full time job. Not in terms of stopping piracy, but protecting the credit card payment systems, which would be a disaster to have hacked from negligence. (This might be why nintendo moved wii u and 3ds eshops in the EU to only accept wallet balances and no credit cards in the EU a few years ago?). After the PSN hack and the Sony Picture hack... if the legacy stores are a potential security threat, sony will either throw money at them to keep them safe or burn them down. The flood of FOMO purchases over the last month might have justified another year or two of store support, especially if someone at Sony has decided this legacy content can be monetized in some way going forward.
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Speaking as someone who just bought a Vita, this decision pleases me. Yes I hacked it, and I will pirate anything I can't otherwise obtain, but I'm always happy to actually purchase the the games I want. Hell, I'll probably purchase the PSP and PSX games I pirated for that system after the PSP store was unavailable.
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Apr 20, 2021 02:31
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The PSP library is vastly superior to the Vita one but playing them on vita is much better cause you can remap controls
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Anyone have OLED image retention issues? I'd don't play mine enough, but I've always been curious how bad it gets. I've never actually heard anyone complain about it.
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Walla posted:Speaking as someone who just bought a Vita, this decision pleases me. Yes I hacked it, and I will pirate anything I can't otherwise obtain, but I'm always happy to actually purchase the the games I want. Hell, I'll probably purchase the PSP and PSX games I pirated for that system after the PSP store was unavailable. lol no you won’t.
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Rinkles posted:Anyone have OLED image retention issues? I'd don't play mine enough, but I've always been curious how bad it gets. I've never actually heard anyone complain about it. It seems to be massively overstated as a potential issue.
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That weird screen effect with the name I can’t remember on the OLED’s is definitely a thing when they switch to all black for anything but otherwise they’re beautiful. Looks kind of like the screen is stained with water drops.
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History Comes Inside! posted:That weird screen effect with the name I can’t remember on the OLED’s is definitely a thing when they switch to all black for anything but otherwise they’re beautiful. the mura effect?
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That’s it, yeah. If you aren’t expecting it the first time you see it it looks like the screen is hosed.
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Oh yeah that happens to both of mine. It looks kinda funky, but I never notice it unless the screen is all-black. And I've never noticed any problems with image retention/burn-in. I thought that stopped being a problem after plasma TVs went away?
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