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| seether:
With more moving parts and lasers and memory cards and such do you think say a PS2 would still even be operational in 30 years time? Is cartridge collecting safer? At least with cartridges there's modern purpose built systems for it i.e. the Retrons etc. so you don't have to rely on a 1985 NES to run the games necessarily. Do you think dreamcasts and the like have a limited life and will die with age in our lifetime? |
| burningdoom:
Well yeah, that is going to happen to all of them, eventually. But what are you going to do? Not own one just because that's going to happen down the road sometime? Clothes wear out, cars break down, houses need repaired; it's no different. |
| seether:
--- Quote from: burningdoom on May 16, 2018, 06:23:31 pm ---Well yeah, that is going to happen to all of them, eventually. But what are you going to do? Not own one just because that's going to happen down the road sometime? Clothes wear out, cars break down, houses need repaired; it's no different. --- End quote --- I'm just saying man, a world where I can't play Fallout: Brotherhood Of Steel on an original PS2 isn't one I want to live in. |
| ffxik:
Yeah, it's an unfortunate eventuality. Replacing optical pickups, capacitors and most other on-board components is easy if there is a supply. When a chip goes, then what? Not many if any clone chips on the market. Cartridge systems are also susceptible to this, they just take longer. There is no "safe collecting" I'm afraid. |
| sworddude:
Plenty of replacement parts not to mention future alternative consoles with more easy plug ins to modern and old tv's some even replicating the original. For carts there are already pricy ways and discs options are coming wich play many cd based consoles at ones and decrease the loading times of neo geo cd's I'm not to worried about retro systems not working anymore original/ brand new replacements part or alternative brand new consoles will be plentyfull in the upcoming 3- 5 years I'd say. Not to mention do you know how cheap ps2 or ps1 systems are ::) Might be some worries with them sega cd based consoles but brand new cd consoles will come wich would make those reliable options or better certain mods right now in wich you do not even need to use the laser to play games on a dreamcast thus making the console very durable since not so long lasting laser was it's main problem. The modding and technical scene are pretty busy these days I'm not to worried to be fair even for original hardware. And people worrying about ps1 and ps2 consoles are just being cheap, These consoles are very cheap to replace and I highly doubt they will increase in value especially with new cd consoles on the rise. |
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