The controller has 3 hours of battery life and the joystick drifts by default out of the box now.
this post was submitted on 05 Jul 2026
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5 bucks per joystick calibration. 8 for both.
The left comes misaligned out of the box, the right drifts after two weeks.
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It's 2029. My Gamecube, Dreamcast, and PS2 still work just fine, thank you.
Check your caps.
how does one get started replacing capacitors? what are good practice devices
Check forums if the hardware you have is prone to issues. Some manufacturer years are worse then others because of the Capacitor Plague, but any capacitor can dry out, leak out or otherwise wear out. If a cap leaks, it can damage the traces on the board. Best practice is to replace before that happens. There are kits online for diy repairs and shops that will do it if you can't solder.
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You're also old enough to schedule your first colonoscopy.
Everyone is old enough to schedule one if you make up a convincing enough reason. I just had my 3rd one this year!
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The SWAT team comes to your house and smashes them all.
You have 4 in your library, but only 1 is installed; it's Call of Duty. Since there's no need for physical media anymore, the footprint of games has ballooned to the point where if you want to install CoD, it's going to cost you 2TB of storage. They threw in 8k textures just for the 0.0001% of players that actually have an 8k TV, and there are a lot of textures since the Big Chungus update which introduced 255 different coloured Chungus textures for every weapon and weapon attachment combination in the game.
They also animated each one in a strange uncompressed video format instead of using effects over them. They are not optional, even though 95% are from optional dlcs you don't own.
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Don't forget that you paid a %50 deposit to reserve/pre-register your "copy" of a digital game
Pre-orders used to be to make sure you have a copy available to purchase on release day. Now there's no point in that since there's effectively an infinite stock since it's a digital product. Now it's just to get a sub-par DLC outfit that doesn't look good with anything.
$80 is 2026 prices. It is going to be $100 at least.
Literally, the $80 is the most unrealistic thing in that post.
It's been 90$ for a long time in Canada and being bumped to 120$ ish, its painful
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A storm knocked out Internet, so now you can't play any games due to Always-on DRM.
You try to watch a movie you physically own, but you didn't buy the $350 optical addon to the digital-only version of the console.
So depressing.
Its so going to happen
already does. I had a Samsung bluray player from over a decade ago that refused to play any movies made a year after it was manufactured unless I connected it to update. it went in my kids room and plays DVDs from the local library now.
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Your PSN account was banned because of your social network comments and you lost all of your games.
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The future of gaming is budget pc builds and piracy.
No, budget PCs and indies - NOT piracy.
If you base your gaming life around piracy, no one is paying for the industry. No golden parachutes for Take Two execs, but also no return on indie development - every game would be by a first time studio mortgaging their house and closing immediately after.
Do not condition people around never paying for media. You get what you pay for. And if you’re not paying, you doom yourself to pages of games full of ad-driven AI slop.
If your indie game is too expensive, i will pirate it too, if it worth it i will bought, if not i won't, very simple.
Damn, i end up buying RDR2 as i finished him pirated and fell than the game deserve it.
Some indie games, where i live are still very expensive and sometimes rhe devs already have a shitton of money like Team Cherry.
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Can't wait for the servers to crash cuz everyone tries downloading their copy of the game at the same time lol
Steam has been fine with this for years.
Didn't Silksong crash those servers less than a year ago from everyone downloading it? You think GTA 6 will be LESS popular?
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Perhaps if people stopped buying those shitty anti-consumer consoles, but people never change, and after all, "iTs jUsT A GAme bRo ahaha" - player that bought fifa every year for the full price
I don't understand how anyone that plays online games would buy a PS or an Xbox. Paid online is so dumb.
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Or, you could take control of your life back from the corpos by any means necessary.
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It's 2060
All consoles are digital-only, legally-required to verify your identity, and locked-down
But Linux still exists! In adapting, it's now hyper-optimized for thin-client corporate workstation terminals, the only computers still made. Distributions are shared via illegal mesh networks or person-to-person on physical media
Gamers can simulate operating a "grocery store", something that used to exist back before the States collapsed
legally-required to verify your identity
UK has pushing that stuff for over a year.
As there is no way for the NSA/CIA/FBI/PTA to monitor what's on a flash drive in your pocket, such physical media will be made illegal. Possession of physical computer storage media that is not permanently connected to the internet will be grounds for arrest and reeducation.
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They each cost $80. Yeah you wish they were so cheap...
If PS goes all digital and Xbox follows with their closed ecosystem, $100 is the minimum they will charge.
I think this is a bit optimistic, no way they won't invent some new way to monetise it even more by 2029
I'm kinda old and have had a couple of Nintendos but never anything PS or Xbox. I've been a PC gamer since PC games existed.
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Don't forget fucking Secure Boot! Locked me out of one of my favorite games, Battlefield 1, all in the name of "anti-cheat"!
Fuck that noise
Second-hand games for older consoles exist...
For how much longer though? Older consoles and games are no longer being made and each year fewer and fewer will be available.
Emulation my friend.
I doubt most console gamers have enough of the know-how nor the desire to figure out how to emulate.
And before you say it’s easy: yes, for many that is often the case. But for an even greater amount of people all they want to do is install the game on their platform of choice and play. Too many hoops to jump through and the casual/technologically unmotivated audience loses motivation. And the minimum amount of hoops before that ends up being the case is smaller than you and I would probably hope for.
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