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The RetroBeat: Learning to love PlayStation after years of bitterness

VB: “I wish I appreciated the original PlayStation back when it was new.“

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ARESWARLORD1597d ago (Edited 1597d ago )

You nailed how I felt about Sony perfectly.

I would say it was even a little harder for me as I'm a little older than you.

I would have still been buying Sega consoles to this day if they would be releasing them.

These days I mostly play games on PC but I still keep a PlayStation around for exclusives like God of war.

But again Sega was by far my favourite gaming company.

I even bought the Genesis mini and it's fantastic.

It is a shame that Sega was killed in the console market and it was definitely hard if you were a hardcore Sega fanboy

The_Sage1596d ago

I was a Sega guy. I had the Genesis, Sega CD, 32X, and Saturn. Sega killed itself. Bad business decisions killed them.

rainslacker1596d ago (Edited 1596d ago )

I was a PC-Engine guy, playing a lot of imports. I did like the Saturn and segaCD though. I moved away from carts pretty early compared to a lot of people, and never got much interested in the SNES during its gen.

But ps1 felt a lot like the PC-engine, and ended up getting a lot of the games in the US that I wished the Turbo Duo had gotten, so I was a pretty early adopter of the ps1. I even imported a japanese systemd before the us release. Still loved the Dreamcast though.

I probably had less staunch console preference back then.

FyBy1596d ago

NIcely written! Everyone was funboy of something (I think :-) ). I was a huge fan of Atari. I played every other day on Atari Jaguar in local game store. Games were fantastic. And my big dream was Atari Falcon. Time passed, I bought PC and after maybe 10 years I bought Nintendo Wii. And this took my attention so much, I bought PS3 later and then PS4.

william_cade1596d ago (Edited 1596d ago )

I was a Sega fan, but dropped Sonic the second I got a hold of a PS1 and a Res.E disk...never looked back.

capjacksparrow1596d ago

Sega Genesis was my first console. I was poor though and had no way of knowing what else was in the gaming world (beside word of mouth), so when a friend showed me some of his jrpgs, I was hooked. Saved up every penny I could to get a PS1 with Breath of Fire 3.

Imortus_san1596d ago

Sorry but the more times pass the less I like Playstation as a hole, Sony releases less and less games overall and even less apeal to me, so I will be in the side lines for Sony and Nintendo next gen, I played less then 10 games my PS4 the all gen and barelly touched the Switch.

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Squad Busters is a New Action Game from Supercell Soft Launched in Selected Countries

Supercell has released its new squad-building action game Squad Busters in Spain, Mexico, Finland, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Canada, and Singapore. This game features characters from different Supercell titles, such as Clash of Clans, Brawl Stars, Hay Day, Clash Royale, and Boom Beach.

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Microsoft Seemingly Closes Bethesda France

As part of its plans to cut 1,900 jobs, Microsoft has reportedly shut down operations at Bethesda France, letting go roughly 15 people

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Hereandthere11h ago

Microsoft should have left them stay 3rd party

GamerRN9h ago

If they are let go, they can be whatever they want. They ARE 3rd party now... 🤦

Barlos6h ago

Yeah, they're also jobless.

peppeaccardo1h ago

"MIcrosoft leaves Bethesda do what they know how to do best" ... close! Oh the irony ....
(Citation from a week old article)

PassNextquestion11h ago(Edited 11h ago)

Bethesda France was made up of roughly 15 people... they couldn't of being doing much

Bethesda France mainly did publishing and marketing within the region

blacktiger9h ago

that's a shame for you to say that, i'm sure Elite loves hearing what you just said.

Profchaos11h ago(Edited 11h ago)

Bethesda France focused on publishing and marketing in the region. And 15 people lost their jobs as part of the closure.

I wonder if this is part of Microsoft's strategy to abandoned physical media or possibly gamepass advertising makes their roles redundant you don't need to market a game as hard when the majority of players get the game as part of a sub which already promoted upcoming games

Tacoboto10h ago

It's France too, there's a high likelihood only 1-2 people on the team even had an Xbox.

Profchaos10h ago

Possibly guven all the leaks we know the Xbox brand is really struggling in the region.

Yi-Long7h ago

Well, if your consoles and games are barely found in any stores any more, of course you're gonna struggle finding consumers ...

XiNatsuDragnel9h ago

Tbh Microsoft I think Bethesda being 3rd party same with Activision would probably more competitive than thus scenario imo

Profchaos8h ago(Edited 8h ago)

I think it would have been better for all parties really especially gamers

TheColbertinator9h ago

The recently purchased Activision French offices might take over all the licensing and marketing for Microsoft in France from now on.

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Sony Could Increase Your Game's Difficulty If It Sees You Complain About It

Sony has recently published a new patent that wants to dynamically handle the games' difficulty and gameplay based on the player's emotions.

jznrpg12h ago

This is something I might use. Sometimes I play some good games but they don’t have difficulty option and are a little too easy.

Profchaos12h ago

Souls games will be like that players struggling make it harder

PassNextquestion11h ago(Edited 11h ago)

I think if used correctly it could work well

jambola7h ago

cool idea
cool idea for horror games especially
the way it's explained here sounds like it could never be forced hopefully, so that's ok with me

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