Will there ever be a standard gaming platform?

[BrunoMattei]

The closest thing we have to a standard platform is PC gaming, which is ridiculously expensive if you want to play newer AAA games and is a nightmare when it comes to retro gaming. You can do emulation on a PC, but it's also one of those legal gray zones and a lot of companies go above and beyond with their copyright notices to shut down emulation of certain games, Nintendo is infamous for it.

If there was ever a true "standard" platform of vidya at any point, it would be arcade gaming, which is dead in the United States and has been since at least the early 2000's.

Really, the copyright laws and rights disputes are a big part of this. It's part of why streaming has become so fucked and why physical media like DVD and Blu-Ray are usually better.

Personally, I'd love to see a proper take on "retro" consoles like the NES and SNES Classic or the ill-fated Playstation Classic.

The way I would do retro mini-consoles is to get official emulations of older games and have it to where you can add more games onto a classic console. Maybe a proper PS1 Classic may have just 20 games at launch, but then more games become available every so often and you can buy them.

I'd include these game in packs, usually focused on a genre, a franchise, or a well-known company.

PC is "a nightmare for retro gaming?" Okay, boomer.

 

[Syaoran Li]

PC is "a nightmare for retro gaming?" Okay, boomer.

To be fair, I did specifically mention that retro gaming isn't a nightmare on PC if you're willing to put in the time and effort to do emulation and source ports. The only real problem with that is the legal issues.

I've got no issue with going on the high seas, but I understand why so many people do. Oddly enough, it's not just the typical Boomers and Gen X'ers either. A lot of Millennials in my age group have a weird aversion to piracy, and not just because of the usual consoomer bullshit but because they think they'll get into actual legal trouble. I've noticed Zoomers as a general rule don't have an issue with sailing the high seas unless they're total MovieBob-tier consoomers.

I have a theory that the downfall of Megaupload in the early 2010's and the sentences those guys got had a lot to do with this irrational fear. It's not a universal fear and it's mostly confined to a certain subset of later Millennials, but I've seen it often enough to see it as worth mentioning.

 

[BrunoMattei]

To be fair, I did specifically mention that retro gaming isn't a nightmare on PC if you're willing to put in the time and effort to do emulation and source ports. The only real problem with that is the legal issues.

I've got no issue with going on the high seas, but I understand why so many people do. Oddly enough, it's not just the typical Boomers and Gen X'ers either. A lot of Millennials in my age group have a weird aversion to piracy, and not just because of the usual consoomer bullshit but because they think they'll get into actual legal trouble. I've noticed Zoomers as a general rule don't have an issue with sailing the high seas unless they're total MovieBob-tier consoomers.

I have a theory that the downfall of Megaupload in the early 2010's and the sentences those guys got had a lot to do with this irrational fear. It's not a universal fear and it's mostly confined to a certain subset of later Millennials, but I've seen it often enough to see it as worth mentioning.

I was going to say something like KegaFusion is easy as shit to get working and it's almost 1 to 1 accurate to the original hardware. It's not some Retroarch POS.

 

[Reverend]

I can (and have many times) emulate retrogaming on a fucking raspberrypi.

I dont need a goddamn pc to play the same games that a $35 SOC board can do just well playing battletoads, 1945, and NFL Blitz.