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evnvnv
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 Posted: Tue May 21, 2013 4:18 pm |
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My money is on ZuneBox (Zbox)
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evnvnv
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| Posted: Tue May 21, 2013 5:21 pm |
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i really like the deeply spiritual numerology going on with the naming schemes of the xbox's various incarnations
hoping we get an Xbox Trinity at some point
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evnvnv
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| Posted: Wed May 22, 2013 4:36 am |
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i nominate xbone as official select button abbreviation of this console
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evnvnv
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| Posted: Wed May 22, 2013 5:00 am |
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Also, I would not personally elect to use the same weird culture wars rhetoric as that article, but I do feel kind of weird that the main selling point of the console seems to revolve around various subscription based services that IDGAF about.
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evnvnv
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| Posted: Wed May 22, 2013 6:45 pm |
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| Felix wrote: |
...videogames to be independent of technology, and to be somehow as transferable from one medium to the next as music and film are perceived to be, but that's an entirely unreasonable desire.
tl;dr people are working on this. there are ways to make this effort. |
Agree with lots of this post. I don't think it is crazy for internisus to be concerned about preservation, but I don't know that lack of backwards compatibility is a death knell for old games.
If anything, by virtue of having been made on computers, video game software I assume is more easy to preserve in a digital archive than other media. Felix your comment about non-vg computer stuff preservation is interesting and I'd like to hear more about it.
But yeah, even if I guess what Booji said is true, that the obsolescence of video game consoles is making older games become inaccessible at a really fast rate, that is still countered by the huge, huge amounts of media in other formats that get left behind when there are even monumental sea changes in media storage (as opposed to the incremental loss incurred by new hardware generations every few years). I'm talking about oral/written, manuscript/print, etc. Is somebody producing sheet music for Kanye West songs so that people will be able to reproduce them even if all recorded media is unplayable in the future? Not to mention the fact that most of those old media are extremely fragile and susceptible to all kinds of destruction (both natural and man-made) even once they've been archived.
In some cases being archived actually makes it more vulnerable! Archives are targets.
Anyway this isn't really a video game situation, I just like to meditate on the transience of material things occasionally. well always.
TL;DR version: See my sig
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| Posted: Fri May 24, 2013 4:37 am |
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Sabre Wulf!
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| Posted: Thu May 30, 2013 1:49 am |
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wake me up when next-gen consoles are things you have to crawl inside of to use
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