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Modern Video Games / Re: It's officially over.

« on: July 06, 2026, 02:09:24 am »

aside from counting all the 1 2$ digital games which no shit those not getting a physical release if we are tlaking the very misleading 85% number.

the big money is in the big games, and the big games have more physical sales than digital

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-fC2oke5MFg


Sales debate aside, I was thoroughly unsurprised by this news. I have had three buddies who were all incredibly avid playstation gamers for over a decade and I don't think I have seen any PS5 game cases in their homes despite them buying and playing lots of games. Live service freemium games and services such as PS+ seem to be a pretty big factor on top of the simple ease of online stores for why they do this (although they've all had to purchase storage drives just to keep a few digital games on, ironically.)

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Modern Video Games / Re: GTA VI $80 | physical is code in a box

« on: June 25, 2026, 04:45:02 pm »

I will cave to fomo for GTA 6.  All mock me now.  But I am deeply ashamed of the companies practices. But its also GTA 6. 

  You could just pretend that it didn't come out and donate to a charity or something

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General / Re: 4 New Games Added to the "World Video Game Hall of Fame"

« on: May 20, 2026, 03:38:18 pm »

53 Games total is quite sparse. But it seems to me that the museum factor and having cool artifacts for visitors to highlight different things they find to be important developments in video game history outweighs the actual most influential video games of all time and whatnot. That would explain the barbie fashion designer choice, which I think is a good one in that context. Despite that, stuff like Wolfenstein 3D not being there really is wild considering Doom, Quake, Goldeneye, and Halo make the cut.

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Modern Video Games / Re: Xbox is now XBOX

« on: May 20, 2026, 03:17:36 pm »

my initial reaction: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RAA1xgTTw9w


  I don't want to read into small alterations like this to guess if the winds of change have truly hit the company, or if everything will be fundamentally the same with a difference aesthetic.

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Marketplace / Re: Pokémon Lugias Ocean (GBA)

« on: April 28, 2026, 12:36:43 pm »

Have you asked your older brother about it? You could probably get a story. Also, I think he deserves to know if you're going through and selling his stuff (as an older brother myself lol). 

I guess I always assumed that hacked pkmn gba carts only started being sold in the 2010s, guess I was wrong.

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Classic Video Games / Re: SNK and Plaion are re-releasing the NeoGeo AES Console.

« on: April 27, 2026, 07:54:18 pm »

There's a conflict here... Also, NES rules

In my core Gen Z experience, you spend a few years amassing a heap of games from before you were born because it's exciting and novel, THEN you realize that you'd probably rather play Minecraft most of the time instead.

I have Rainbow Six GBC and Rainbow Six Rogue Spear GBA AND PsX because I bought them all in a flurry after enjoying the original, now I realize I *only* liked the original, not the series, but I have a hard time parting with anything in my collection, so it'll probably be 50 years before these go back on the market for any prospective Rainbow Six series collectors, in the meantime, supply is more constrained by being caught up in collections like mine while the number of people who come to a series through stuff like R6 Siege only grows.

Supply going down as demand goes up makes me think that, barring things like this retro reproduction, Game collecting is fated to grow in price until a generation of folks like MetalJesusRocks have estate sales, which is pretty far down the line.

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Classic Video Games / Re: SNK and Plaion are re-releasing the NeoGeo AES Console.

« on: April 24, 2026, 06:44:12 pm »

Update on my last post. It looks like Plaion has already done this with multiple consoles, neat! Just weird that they've gotten rid of all the site pages for these products and on stuff like the Atari store listings, Plaion isn't mentioned at all. Maybe rights were exchanged or something.

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Classic Video Games / Re: SNK and Plaion are re-releasing the NeoGeo AES Console.

« on: April 24, 2026, 05:47:25 pm »

and the console with a controller is only like 400$ not a massive price diff compared to this.

For a brand new closed in box consoles plus a game, I feel like $250 is a pretty massive price difference compared to $400, only 62% of the cost!

Has anything been done like this before? I know that there are a lot of boutique companies that will make a game cart here and there for a modern indie game ported to the game boy color and whatnot. But has a retro console ever been genuinely put back into production like this? If not, I think this would give me strong hope that it could happen with other consoles in the future (Maybe Master System/Genesis?). The fundamental issue that I see with game collecting is that the number of people growing up and wishing to collect is always growing, while the supply of everything worth collecting continually shrinks as games and systems enter permanent collections and experience physical degradation. Simple 1:1 reproduction is such a dream solution to that, although I can see investors and speculators being upset for dropping their prices (good!)

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General / Re: Do you ever buy Non-Original accessories

« on: January 17, 2026, 08:19:21 pm »

For controllers, I usually hate to, especially for the Gamecube, nothing has ever been able to recreate the quality of the OG's there.
For the first Xbox, I have found pretty much any controller to be perfectly serviceable. Every other type of accessory besides controllers I love third party. Link cables, memory cards, and anything else I think is just great to have a cheap, out of the box version of. Tomee, PowerA, and Hori all have my heart.

What I desperately want is for any 3rd party company to step up and reproduce the Gamecube LAN adapter that slots under the console. It still costs around $99 on eBay and although I know there's very little market for the 2 games that it supports, I really want to see a cheap version of it so that I can play kirby airride and mariokart double dash with all of my cousins.

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General / Re: Gaming/Collecting Goals for 2026

« on: December 24, 2025, 06:19:32 am »

Around fall of 2024 I swore that I wouldn't buy another video game for a year, time FLEW buy and I had less struggle with it than I expected. I'm tempted to extend the challenge for another year. However, I still don't have a copy of Halo 4, and I just found out that the H4 Game of The Year edition which I have been weirdly drawn to for years is about 8 bucks on ebay (there isn't any exclusive content for me since it was all in the form of download codes  , yet the cover looks cool and I just love feeling like I have the most complete version of the game in a GOTY edition).

With generally not planning to buy games or even have time for playing them next semester (Past more Mario party nights off of Switch Online n64 with my roommates) the only things I can see myself picking up realistically are peripherals and the like.

I still only have one ps3 controller, and while all my games are still singleplayer, it would be forward thinking to have another. Likewise with the xbox 360, I need a few more if I am going to have a Halo reach LAN party like I am planning.

I have a copy of pokemon silver from a family friend with a dead save battery. At some point in time I need to go through the effort of replacing it, but I am intimidated by the task.

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Classic Video Games / Re: Do you put your game discs inside a disc wallet?

« on: December 24, 2025, 06:11:09 am »

I have one that gets use every summer. My game shelf is in my room upstairs, which has a TV, but during the summer when I have time I will usually want to play xbox, xbox360, and ps3 games on the larger basement TV with the surround sound speaker setup (earlier playstations and nintendo consoles almost never have an experience that warrants a larger screen or better audio for me). I load up 3-5 games from those consoles that I know I'll be playing the most and then keep that down with the console, so convenient.

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General / Re: VGC's Anonymous/"General" Topic:

« on: December 24, 2025, 06:06:22 am »

Does anyone here use consolevariations.com? I signed up there last week after it kept coming up in my google search results. Its fun to browse and has a lot of neat features like its achievements, but honestly feels very lacking in terms of content and organization (things like the Original xbox having multiple listings and whatnot). I guess VGcollect has me spoiled with how much effort has been put into this site over the decades to really flesh everything out.


marvelvscapcom2, how has your "no buying items made after 2005" journey been going? Anything you're proud of or particular difficulties?

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General / Re: Your collection in 5-years from now

« on: December 24, 2025, 02:42:32 am »

Cognitively, I am completely content with my current game collection...

Obviously, logic and conscious thought don't determine my dreams.

The main plan is to merge my game collection with my girlfriends. She has a Wii u and a ps4, which perfectly fills in the gaps in my own collection (I have GCN Wii and Switch, and PSX PS2 PS3). Having access to ps4 hardware for the first time may open up new possibilities for me, seeing as ps4 game discs are dirt cheap nowadays ( I pretty much refuse to pay more than $30 for a video game anymore). I could see myself finally trying out all of the classics (God of War, TLOU2, etc). And I definitely need to get the Mass Effect Legendary edition after playing ME1 on it at a friends house.

Other than that. Someday I also want to get an xbox one model. I wanted to ask you guys about that. I'm thinking that I will have an xbone mostly for the sake of owning the whole generation from the big three, and wont be buying xbox live, so no online multiplayer. Would it be worth it to get the one s or one X models over the base phat model Xbone? I'm drawn towards the one X simply because I think its a great looking console, but so is the one S (I hate the glossy black of the original), are the differences in performance between them that noticeable? I won't have a 4k TV and care more about framerate than raw graphical quality if that matters.

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General / Re: Your collection in 5-years from now

« on: December 24, 2025, 02:29:11 am »

  I do want to one day have a proper collection, particularly boxed N64 games, that's kinda the big one I want, but most I have for display are my Switch/PS5 games, of which I can't play the Switch games since I don't have a Switch right now and my Zelda collection which I ended up clearing out a lot of it and mostly just have my amiibo's (I own them all other than Smash Bros Link and a couple others I'm forgetting) and a handful of games like my original N64 Zelda games, and boxed Japanese versions of Majora's Mask and Link to the Past.

What happened to your switch?

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General / Re: What are you playing?

« on: December 24, 2025, 02:04:34 am »

I am back home for my last ever college break, and have been engaging in my favorite activity, sitting at my gameshelf and reorganizing my games, this almost trumps playing them...

I don't have access to my switch of handheld games right now, so every night I have found myself returning to my PS3 to find something to do instead of reading my history book. So far I have downloaded tons of demos and free games from the Playstation store and had fun trying them out. Minecraft and Terraria ps3 somehow feel much smoother and cleaner than they do on the Switch. 

I put all of my ps3 discs in just to check if there was any updates for them (I haven't played most of them after buying them used) and ended up checking out if they had working online. Its shocking that you can still get matches in modern warfare and modern warfare 2 (which is surprisingly really fun, as a diehard Halo fan, I was shocked by how much of a blast I was having getting pwned by all the maxed out rank players). Even Red Dead Redemption still has players online having shootouts at 2AM!

 I really love Destiny on ps3, and really want to squeeze all I can out of the game content while the servers are still up and working smoothly, including the non-pvp achievements. I am, however, not sure how I can do any of the raids all on my lonesome.