Ahh, boomers…
So parents think it’s a big taking advantage of you conspiracy to get you to spend $200 every 5 years but I don’t remember seeing these news stories about cars lasting 5-7 years and needing to be replaced
Remember, news has always manufactured outrage for its customers (advertisers). Guess Nintendo didn’t spend enough on the network
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Well, VCRs or TVs then. Microwaves. Vacuum cleaners. Lawn mowers. Plenty of expensive shit that broke every 5 years
I’ve got the lawn mower of Theseus, almost every part has been replaced at least once.
I want to buy a new one so bad, but every time mine stops working I manage to fix it.
Sounds more like someone bought cheap shit
The microwave we had as a kid, my brother still uses. It’s gotta be 40 years old or more.
We had tvs growing up that were 10-20 years old and I’m sure some of the newer 80s/90s tvs are still working, just aren’t used.
My brother still uses the electric lawn mower my parents bought in the 90s.
VCRs, well, I haven’t used one in years, so I couldn’t tell you the shape those are in.
My vacuum is over ten years old.
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Yeah yeah, news bad, ban them all. /s
It’s fine, just have to understand why they’re saying what they’re saying and what their motivation is
First and foremost they’re an ad company. They sell ad space. They just need to scare people into watching, outrage them enough, get them habitually hooked
Funny enough now I think this conspiracy is truer than ever, because only a handful of new releases actually require the full capabilities of a PS5 or an XSX, and most of them are being made by first-party studios to sell those consoles.
If we think of phones, that is definitely true. To the point some brands like Apple have been found actively undermining older devices to sell new ones.
Sony made it even more deliberate. They blocked sales on PS3 for the same games that were on PS4. So a game may be $40 and on sale for $12 on PS4 but it would stay $40 on ps3. Developers complained about it and it was out of their hands
Didn’t happen on Xbox. And of course on steam it was the same game all along
Why are these Japanese companies Sony / Nintendo so scummy when it comes to this shit?
Fun fact, that $200 in 1991 would be about $450 today. The most expensive Nintendo console today is the Switch OLED at $360. Nintendo is beating inflation!
Good that they do, because our wages sure aren’t.
Wait, you mean you get a wage?!
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Watching his boomer ass go backwards around that track whilst aspousing the evils of video games tells you everything you needed to know back then, now and forever.
I think he was throwing shade on the parents by showing how much fun he was having. Though why he went in reverse is a boomer mystery.
The story is so weird, like somebody (the reporters? Nintendo?) wanted to do a puff piece that was just letting people know the SNES was coming out and it looked cool, but somebody else wanted a serious but uncreative “outrage” angle so they tacked it on and then promptly ignored it. Dude’s literally playing FZero on the weather department’s green-screen.
Maybe it was outrage marketing. That’s more common today, but even back day there were ads trying to sell games like Sonic by saying that your mom wouldn’t like it.
The shade those parents must’ve felt to have their interviews used in what turned out to be free marketing for Nintendo lol
She’s got hair like that cat Pepé le Pew wants to hook up with.
If you’re a high skill player, meaning you have the skill of a 9 or 10 year old…
Haha I love it
As he’s driving in reverse
When the first NES came out I was over there with my C64 and my shoebox full of disks with games I hadn’t tried yet like, lol suckers.
I wish I had seen this, there might have been a moment when we could’ve shifted some parental money from Nintendo to Commodore with the right campaign, and kept the Amiga going…
Ah the OG Steam library
Commodore gang assemble!
I learned programming on my 64 at 8 years old. I typed in the code from a programming book, ran it, saw what it did, and changed it around to alter the output to my liking.
I’ve made a whole career out of that.
I did the same thing, but before I could actually read. The program didn’t run lol
I have lamented, many times, the fact that they took SO long to get Super Mario Brothers working on the 64. If they had done that the year after the NES came out, history would look very different, you ask me.
There are several places where the reporters don’t use what would today be typical words for things. I guess at that time the general public wouldn’t have understood words like “graphics” or “platform”?
It’s a metaphor for their struggle. You think you can go back to better times but it’s just an illusion. Then you will explode
This is great, thanks for sharing! Parental anxiety will never stop.
Won’t somebody please think of the children!
A moment of silence in honor the sacrifice of Kent Shocknek, taken from this world too early while trying to jump his car o7
Is that April from TMNT?
It’s okay to critisize, but spoiling the end of Super Mario World is just spiteful.
Culture was just different back then. Spoilers weren’t a big deal, except maybe for Star Wars fans.
I remember the era when anime episodes would tell you what would happen in it, if someone dies and stuff like that.
dude I remember this outrage. Kind of funny that we now expect some inter-generational compatability from our consoles. I guess it’s less scary for the platform holder now that most sales are digital.
And emulation is so much easier, so if you don’t make legal access easy, you are stopping an easy revenue stream.
To be fair, siege protectors with a ton of outlets weren’t a thing back then so it was a real struggle when you were already using your 2 outlets
So I’m pretty sure that was meant to be surge protection, but for a minute there i was thinking I totally missed out on the part of the 90s console wars where they rolled out the trebuchets.
Android’s keyboard and random changing of things is going to drive me to iOS someday
“Things have definitely come a long way since Pac-Man”.
