Granite that is a hard choice to make though!

Just spend a bit more and get a SNES Classic. I got one and it's so easy to "hack" but after playing with it for a few hours, I realized just using my Shield TV was a lot more fun for me (access to all the systems and 500GB's of storage...)

For kids though I would totally recommend the SNES classic hacked to add more games. The reason for that is the ease of use once set up its a lot easier for kids VS emulation or those Chinese clones... My grand kids love the old games but to play emulation stuff it means hours of me sitting and putting on some other game because they are bored in like 15 minutes. The clones are a little better in that respect but accessing added games often is complicated.

4 million sounds like a lot until you realize it's pretty close to being ~4% market penetration with zero competition on the platform. That's pretty lousy, throw in localization for games and the market shrinks even more. If I was a developer I would be terrified to release a VR exclusive game with those kind of numbers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Top selling PS4 game is over 16 million units. PS4 is closing in on 95 million units sold.

You can paint it anyway you like, use what ever terminology you want. The numbers do not have an opinion. VR flopped on the PS4 hard, yeah it sold better than most people ever imagined but better is not equal to good.

Maybe it will take off on the PS5, ramp up and all that (I wouldn't count on it.) pretty much VR will face the same problems on the PS5 as it did on the PS4 and the PC.

I am not sure what would make VR a success, maybe if it can be brought down to be cheap enough and literally packed in with every system sold. That way publishers will have a 1:1 chance at a sale.

Even if it was 4 million units, that's world wide, and is generally considered a flop in video game system sales.

To put it in perspective, the Wii-U considered by many to be a flop, sold over 13 million units.

Not to mention in the ER most people are wearing gloves a lot of the time... most bio-metric stuff would be difficult to use, at least with any sort of speed.

I like the idea of smart cards or some sort of wireless card thing that would be linked to the computers. The hospital I work at has cards you hold up to gray boxes to open doors and they have it set where most people can open some doors and a few people can open doors that lead to sensitive area's. The only issue we run into is the staff seem to lose the things all the time :( Or leave them at home.

Or if they tried to use the breaks at hmm maybe an intersection where traffic going 45 miles an hour would be more likely to cause death.

I would probably watch something like that, science in porn... The educational aspect is interesting.

If someone could put string theory in a porn video, I would probably be able to grasp it... Heh.

I often wonder this myself.

And of that 65% 99.9999999% of the "threats" are from some 12 year old kid who has no means to carry out said threats. The verbal abuse is annoying but anytime you deal with the public it's bound to happen at some point.

It's 8K and being rushed was only part of the problem, back when Pacman was made 8K of ROM was still kind of expensive. I know it's laughable now you can go buy 128GB MicroSD cards for like 20 bucks these days... lol But yeah for some reason ROM and RAM back then was way too expensive.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

https://jcmit.net/memoryprice.... This is for RAM but ROM wasn't too different back then, 1982 is when Pacman came out and 256K of RAM was almost 500 dollars. (yeah 8K is much less and ROM is cheaper, but 50 bucks covered packaging advertising and everything else. Then you need a profit margin.)

From what I can find, Pacman on the 2600 used a 4K ROM chip, 8K would have cost too much the investors would have had a fit.

There where Atari 2600 piracy devices, but they where pretty meh, you had to buy blank carts and I think I remember them being cheap and not long lasting? Like you can go dig up an old 2600 cart at the dump right now and pop it in and expect it to play,,,

http://atariage.com/forums/top...

I feel like tariffs are like a tax at the border and work on every good covered under said tariff... Not just for China. So if the tariff is on say wheat, it doesn't matter what country that wheat is being imported from. This avoids just making a widget in China and shipping it too Japan to be sent on to where ever.

At least I hope this is how they work.

Just want to add my 2 cents here... I feel like a 2010's car or truck is going to spew a lot lot lot less pollution than a 1970s car or truck. Some of those smog problems where from cars that had token pollution controls at best.

On the storage end of things, they spend very little most STB's had like 20GB's in them when I was working for the cable company. I think the new at the time HD boxes had 40GB hard drives. Considering at the time 1TB drives on the PC where getting common at the time.

I understand why they had such small drives but it was still frustrating to me, my wife would fill the entire drive on 2 DVR's and I would get nothing... If the drives where larger maybe things would have been better for me!!! lol

Now I just use Direct TV Now and the Shield TV / Apple TV 4K and that whole cloud DVR thing... but the upside is most of the stuff I want is on demand or on Netflix or Amazon or Youtube or Pluto TV or The Roku Channel (seriously the Roku + stick thing is under 30 bucks totally worth it for all the free content)

Streaming is the way to go if you can get the internet connection to back it up, you can save money or roll the savings into signing up for a few services and enjoy virtually unlimited entertainment.

I actually heard they are planning on just using ARM chips for everything... Not sure how much faith I put in that rumor but if true it would be really weird... It would have to be some extreme upgraded ARM to offer any reasonable performance in a desktop machine?