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[gameunder.net] Game Under Podcast Returns!  Foolz and Aspro's podcast. gameunder.net aspro
[ign.com] Disney Releases Video of it's HoloTile Floor "world’s first multi-person, omni-directional, modular, expandable, treadmill floor." ign.com news aspro
[videogameschronicle.com] Sam Barlow has announced two new horror games he made Her Story and Silent Hill Origins videogameschronicle.com news aspro
Tekken 8 Review 9 Plenty of Single Player Content thesixthaxis.com editorial impressions aspro
New Princess Peach Showtime Trailer It's been almost 20 years since Super Princess Peach on the Nintendo DS thesixthaxis.com media news aspro
[nintendolife.com] Nintendo Reveals New Pastel Pink Switch Joy-Con Set Not pink! It's salmon! nintendolife.com news Ravenprose
[rockpapershotgun.com] I refuse to unlock Palworld's bleakest tech upgrade lol rockpapershotgun.com editorial Ravenprose
[eurogamer.net] Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice is currently £2.49 on Steam. Ahead of May's sequel. Includes the VR version. eurogamer.net SupremeAC
[videogameschronicle.com] Game Dev CEO Says You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet “If 2023 was the year of layoffs, 2024 will be the year of closures,” videogameschronicle.com news aspro
[videogameschronicle.com] Ace Attorney Director Says The Series will Never End No objections your honour. videogameschronicle.com aspro
[eurogamer.net] Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth director suggests what chocobo smell like Spoiler Alert: They smell like horse. eurogamer.net news aspro
[videogameschronicle.com] Palworld CEO Repsonds to Plagiarism Claims and the inevitable death threats. videogameschronicle.com news aspro
PS5 vs Xbox Series X|S vs Switch Launch Sales Comparison Switch had outsold PS5 after the same time frame (38 months). vgchartz.com media news aspro
PS5 Outsells SNES That was quick. vgchartz.com news aspro
[ign.com] The Pokemon Company Makes an Official Statement on Palworld 'We Intend to Investigate' ign.com news Ravenprose
[pushsquare.com] MS to Cut 1,900 Jobs in More Video Game Layoffs pushsquare.com news Ravenprose
[youtube.com] Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney Trilogy DF Tech Review Digital Foundry DF Tech Review youtube.com impressions media Ravenprose
[videogameschronicle.com] Switch 2 ‘will have an 8-inch LCD screen’, analyst claims Based on supply chain movements. videogameschronicle.com news aspro
[videogameschronicle.com] Blesinsky: MS Would Be "Smart" to Hire Him Work on Gears “I’m down to consult." videogameschronicle.com news aspro
[purexbox.com] MS Hits Historic $3 Trillion Valuation On Same Day Of Xbox Layoffs purexbox.com news Ravenprose
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Tue, 23 Jan 2024 21:28:30
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What do you get for the man who has everything?  How about a "multi-person, omni-directional, modular, expandable, treadmill floor."

I need one of those for my dog when it's too cold outside.

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Tue, 23 Jan 2024 21:29:46
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What do you get for the man who has everything?  How about a "multi-person, omni-directional, modular, expandable, treadmill floor."

One step closer to humankind's ultimate goal: becoming high tech hamsters!
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Tue, 23 Jan 2024 21:56:08
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If my brother texted me anything at 12:15 AM, I'd block him for life.

I keep my phone on vibrate and never hear it when I'm asleep, so it doesn't bother me.

Yeah now you mention it since my mother died I now put my phone on airplance mode as I get so many spam texts in the middle of the night!  Seriously though, that's great for your sister, I've got the hogwarts collection and star wars ones (LEGO) and I've not foudn them as fun as Lego City Undercover.

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aspro said:

What do you get for the man who has everything?  How about a "multi-person, omni-directional, modular, expandable, treadmill floor."

One step closer to humankind's ultimate goal: becoming high tech hamsters!

LOL They'll feed us Ozempic and Prozac from a feeder bottle.

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Tue, 23 Jan 2024 22:24:03
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If my brother texted me anything at 12:15 AM, I'd block him for life.

When I was in Paris, I took a walk at 6:30 in the morning. I kept sending pics to my sister of the city forgetting that it was actually 12:30 am back home. Luckily she had notifications silenced.

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Wed, 24 Jan 2024 01:09:42
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Yeah now you mention it since my mother died I now put my phone on airplance mode as I get so many spam texts in the middle of the night!  Seriously though, that's great for your sister, I've got the hogwarts collection and star wars ones (LEGO) and I've not foudn them as fun as Lego City Undercover.

I'll recomend that game to my sister. I don't believe she has it.

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Wed, 24 Jan 2024 01:56:37
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Oh man, Lego City Undercover was great. Such a great parody for anyone who had just passing familiar with 70s and '80s cop shows and movies. I may have to go back and replay that sometime on the Wii U.
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Wed, 24 Jan 2024 02:38:18
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PS5 Outsells SNES

Interesting but not surprising. I think people forget that as much as most of us loved it, the SNES was a moderate seller but not a huge seller.
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Wed, 24 Jan 2024 06:15:58
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PS5 Outsells SNES


Interesting but not surprising. I think people forget that as much as most of us loved it, the SNES was a moderate seller but not a huge seller.

Yeah, for sure. I loved the system, is probably my all time favourite, but it really wasn’t some huge selling system.

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Wed, 24 Jan 2024 06:30:13
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robio said:
PS5 Outsells SNES



Interesting but not surprising. I think people forget that as much as most of us loved it, the SNES was a moderate seller but not a huge seller.

Yeah, for sure. I loved the system, is probably my all time favourite, but it really wasn’t some huge selling system.

SNES is close to my all time favourite, certainly in the top 3.   guess to me it shows how big gaming is now compared to then, but from my internal perspective it's always been "big". For the PS5 to overtake it so quickly, with it's hideous industrial design, and lack of supply in the first 18 months is really something.

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Wed, 24 Jan 2024 06:43:44
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OMG, so forgot my steam password. I've gone through 37 captcha tests to prove I am not a robot and I keep failing, and everytime I fail they mutiple the number of cars, busses and hydrants I have to identify.

Is it apocryphal that google uses that data to train it's dirivng AI? Becuase if that's true it just makes me angrier that I'm training the job-taking AI cars for the evil advertising company known as google.

Fuck I hate google.

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Wed, 24 Jan 2024 08:10:16
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Is it apocryphal that google uses that data to train it's dirivng AI? Becuase if that's true it just makes me angrier that I'm training the job-taking AI cars for the evil advertising company known as google.

Hopefully not true, or else all those self driving cars crashing into hydrants because they can't recognize them will be on you.

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Wed, 24 Jan 2024 13:16:42
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I don't know. I consider 49 million to be a huge seller for the SNES, especially in the 90s. NES was about the same.

Looking at the numbers on Wikipedia, I thought the Genesis was much closer to SNES in sales but it only sold around 35 million. Genesis is still my favorite 16-bit system; SNES being a close second.

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Wed, 24 Jan 2024 14:31:20
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Oh man, Lego City Undercover was great. Such a great parody for anyone who had just passing familiar with 70s and '80s cop shows and movies. I may have to go back and replay that sometime on the Wii U.

It's regularly on sale on Switch for £4.99

I had it physically in the first year but sold it. The graphics were improved a lot but the framerate was consistently just under 30 which was annoying.

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Wed, 24 Jan 2024 14:33:20
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I started Octopath Traveller 2, and as much as I enjoyed it for a while, that art style really bothered me. I thought it was cool when I first saw it, but something about it in motion doesn't sit well with my eyes I think.

I love it.

Also, if older games had voice acting they'd be a lot easier to play for me. Like SNES Chrono trigger or something.

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Wed, 24 Jan 2024 17:39:31
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I don't know. I consider 49 million to be a huge seller for the SNES, especially in the 90s. NES was about the same.

Looking at the numbers on Wikipedia, I thought the Genesis was much closer to SNES in sales but it only sold around 35 million. Genesis is still my favorite 16-bit system; SNES being a close second.


NES sold 61 million, or so says Wikipedia. Assuming that's right though, that's a 20% drop. We can argue with 12 million really means one way or the other, and I suppose it won't really matter. But I definitely think it's safe to say that the Super Nintendo never had that pop culture spotlight that the Atari and the NES had before it, and that the PlayStation had afterwards.
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Wed, 24 Jan 2024 17:40:46
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It's regularly on sale on Switch for £4.99

I had it physically in the first year but sold it. The graphics were improved a lot but the framerate was consistently just under 30 which was annoying.


Yeah I don't need to get it. I'm getting rid of my switch as it is.
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Wed, 24 Jan 2024 21:01:35
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I don't know. I consider 49 million to be a huge seller for the SNES, especially in the 90s. NES was about the same.

Looking at the numbers on Wikipedia, I thought the Genesis was much closer to SNES in sales but it only sold around 35 million. Genesis is still my favorite 16-bit system; SNES being a close second.



NES sold 61 million, or so says Wikipedia. Assuming that's right though, that's a 20% drop. We can argue with 12 million really means one way or the other, and I suppose it won't really matter. But I definitely think it's safe to say that the Super Nintendo never had that pop culture spotlight that the Atari and the NES had before it, and that the PlayStation had afterwards.

Also the SNES had a lot more competition. NES only had to compete against Sega Master System (if you can even call that a competitor, even though it was technically superior, the marketing by Tonka was non-existent).  SNES had to compete with Genesis, TurboGrafx, 3DO, Nirvana, Gameboy and just the usual sophomore slump.  Even so 49 million is impressive for the time.  What blows me away is the SNES took a decade to sell 49 million and had a massive library, of which 10% were pure bangers, and the PS5 has done it with... um... Well Horizon 2 I guess?

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Wed, 24 Jan 2024 21:16:33
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The PS5 is a great console a lot of great games and exclusives, so Sony deserves the sales, IMO. My favorite console this generation easily. It's PlayStation hardware near-perfected. Load times held Sony's consoles back, but those are a non-issue now. If only it played PS1, PS2 and PS3 disks too...

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Wed, 24 Jan 2024 21:19:36
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The PS5 is a great console a lot of great games and exclusives, so Sony deserves the sales, IMO. My favorite console this generation easily. It's PlayStation hardware near-perfected. Load times held Sony's consoles back, but those are a non-issue now. If only it played PS1, PS2 and PS3 disks too...

If it was fully backward-compatible I'd buy two. My purchasing decision was sealed when I found out it was backward compatible with PS4, that alone is worth the upgrade.  Notable games I know of on PS5 are Astrobot, Ratchet and Clank and Marvel's Spiderman 2.  What would you add to that list?

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