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the "retro" games bubble is so fucking dumb

the "retro" games bubble is so fucking dumb

Something something capitalism

Why?

same reason the used car bubble is stupid.

same reason the used car bubble is stupid. it's prohibitively expensive for people who want to buy games to actually play them, or do really anything other than speculate and sit on them

If you want to play them, there is a free and completely ethical alternative.

If you want to collect them, you pay the market price as you would any other used goods market.

1:admitting the only way people can access games that are more than a decade so old affordably is by stealing them seems kind of like a tacit agreement that my point about the bubble being stupid is correct 2:it has absolutely caught up with ps360 generation and later games/other games that can't be reliably emulated yet

1.starting off your argument by falsely claiming that emulating video games is stealing is a great way to get people to know you are being disingenuous 2: ps360, wii u, switch, 3DS, and PSP/Vita can be emulated very reliably and in better quality. ps4 games are starting to get emulated as well, although it's only the small indie ones you'd find on PSN

1:cry 2:as someone who tried emulating MGS4 fairly recently, i can tell you "reliable" is pretty far down the list of descriptions i'd use

Excuse me good sir, I own both a copy of the original game and a ps3, that makes everything completely legal. stay mad

That's actually not how it works. I mean it's not stealing anyway, but it's not because you retain a copy. It's not the same image.

what makes you think i didn't dump my own copy?

Because we all know you didn't and you're just trolling at this point.

sounds more like you're mad that i'm right and you're wrong

Being that you incorrectly stated that emulators at PS3/360 and later aren't reliable, you admitted to everyone that you don't know what you're talking about.

I have a complete copy of Chrono Trigger. My wife bought it for me 8 years ago for like $250. Now they are going for like 700. I could have bought Earthbound complete. The one that came in that bigger game box for like 300 5 years ago, but didnt have the money at the time. I am regretting that now.

correctly*

I don't think you realize how big the PS3/360 library was. 67.98% running at 4K/60FPS is fucking fantastic and you also need to account for the fact that a lot of the games with "ingame" or worse tags haven't been tested in a long time due to their relevancy.

cope L