It's not that easy.

Both the PS2 and PS3 had *bizarre* hardware. They primarily relied on massive memory bandwidth, and lots of co-processors that all had to work in parallel on tiny chunks of data. It was a big challenge for developers to get the most out of those consoles, and few of them did.

It also makes it damn hard to emulate. The hardware doesn't "map" to anything else - it's unique.

As for sticking the "ASICs" in to a modern console - well, that costs money. Lots of money. And I imagine that nobody is making the chips for the PS2 and PS3 anymore. Sony would have to spin-up a new production line. And let's not forget that they can't just use the old chips. They'd have to design new versions of them, to work in the new consoles.

It's just not worth it. Easier to re-write the popular old games and re-sell them.

People buy new console to play new games. The whole BC thing is a red-herring, and always has been.

After all, if you have games for your PS1/2/3/4, don't you already own the console? Why do you care if the new console will play the games? And don't give me that "It's too many cables and I don't have room!" argument. That's crap.

And, as the summary said, adding BC costs money. Potentially quite a bit of money. I'd rather have either a cheaper PS5 with no BC, or a more expensive PS5 with more power-in-general. BC isn't worth the cost unless it's nearly free.

All that said, I would think that PS1 BC would be a gimme. You can emulate that thing on everything these days. The same isn't true of the PS2 or PS3, which are both special beasts that are a nightmare to emulate.

Actually, no.

The $10/month includes ONE game - Destiny 2.

For all the other games, you have to pay FULL RETAIL.

It's not like Netflix, or Amazon prime, or any of the streaming services. It's an online store to sell you full-priced games that you can ONLY stream via Google's service. You don't get physical media, or anything else. Quit paying the $10/month (which you have to pay *in addition* to purchasing the games), and you no longer can play your games.

It's stupid. It's so stupid it's hard to believe it's a real thing. NOBODY is using it, and nobody will. It's DOA.

Yeah, I have the same question. Why don't they just quit?

Don't get me wrong, I think Target should be punished, and I think labor laws should protect against this kind of exploitation. The old conservative/Republican bit about "If they don't like their job, why don't they just get another one?" doesn't really work in reality, because it eventually leads to EVERY employer being equally shitty to their employers. And we are getting close to that point in the United States.

BUT...we aren't there yet. So why do these people continue to work for Shipt?

I know that for some of these "gig" employees, they take the job because it offers them "flexibility" that they don't have with other jobs. And I'm sure that's nice and all, but do they really think that it's worth it to be exploited/underpaid to the limit of labor law?

The difference in graphics between an SNES and a PS5 is pretty obvious.

The difference in graphics between a PS5 and an XboxOneX is going to be subtle, to say the least. So the cheaper box is going to win out. Even the availability of specific games on a given console doesn't matter much anymore, because all of the big games come out on all the consoles.

In my opinion, a plateau was reached with the PS3/Xbox 360 generation. Yes, graphics have gotten better, but not THAT much. The limitation has really become how much time/money a developer has to spend on game development.

Seriously...is there anyone besides the usual "graphics whores" that are unhappy with the way PS4 games look? And how do you explain the success of the Switch, which has the "worst" graphics of any of the current generation consoles? Never mind that "Breath of the Wild" is prettier than almost any other game.

Criterium means "a one-day bicycle race on a circuit road course"

The word you want is "criterion".

Apple really *does* seem to care about privacy, which is almost enough to make me switch.

Android...yeah, you can turn that stuff off, and I do, but Google is a data-mining company. Just owning an Android at all is giving Google data. It simply can't be avoided.

If only iPhones would allow just a *little* more customization of the interface, I would switch, I think.

When it comes to reference materials, search is really convenient, *after* you've already read the book.

The first time through, though, it's so much easier to "skip around" with a paper book. Plus, with a paper book that you are really familiar with, you develop a bunch of "mental bookmarks", and know approximately where in the book things are. I do this with fiction, too. With my physical books, I know where the good parts are physically located, and can get to them easily. For studying, that kind of familiarity is extremely useful.

Don't get me wrong, I like e-books, and buy them almost exclusively. But there are things they don't do well.

MS sells their E3 license, which comes with everything most business users would ever want. And a bunch of stuff they probably don't, want, too, but it's SO CHEAP. You get the Office apps, an Exchange mailbox (with archiving), OneDrive/Sharepoint online storage (like, a terabytes or something ridiculous like that)...all kinds of stuff. It's hard to beat.

And then, for really small offices (or more daring big offices), you can just run all of your servers in Azure. You can even use nothing but AzureAD if you want to go that far.

They've just wrapped it up at this point. Nothing else compares for sheer functionality, ease of use, and most importantly *ease of setup and maintenance*.

I don't play Fortnite. I don't really play games at all anymore. I'm 46, and my gaming days ended when I was about 30. But before that, I was *seriously* into it. I played games all the time from about 1980 up until about 2003.

I know that Fortnite has something of a less-than-stellar reputation as a...kids game? A game for jerks? A game for wannabes? It's unclear why it's disliked. From what I've seen, it's the natural progression of the FPS into total absurdity. Which is kind of cool. Not for me, but kind of cool.

And their events...that shit is awesome. It' the kind of thing you always hoped for in the "old days" - a game that actually changes radically every now-and-then. Even the various MMORPGs don't do that kind of "outside-context" change.

Yes, I realize that in the end it will still be Fortnite. But at least they are doing fun stuff and not just letting it stagnate.

I hate when people refer to something as "one of the most powerful" or "one of the best" or "one of..." anything. It's hyperbole, and it's meaningless. Give me a ranking, or at least some kind of comparison.

Technically, I'm "one of" the most-handsome men in the world. I'm the 7-billionth most handsome.

They were the first to do that kind of humor on the internet (at least, in a big way), but now it's everywhere, and nobody cares.

As for "Thud"...never heard of it. Ever.

I liked Toys R Us. Young kids *really* liked it. But they only liked it until they were old enough to really use a computer/tablet/phone/console.

Kids stop playing with "toys" once they are proficient readers, these days. There just isn't a market for toys like there used to be. A whole chain of toy stores is doomed. Again.

The market hasn't changed, why are they doing this?

Yup, the demo scene was entirely based on the fact that on consumer-level hardware, it was difficult to generate photo-realistic imagery and animation, and CD-quality sound.

That hasn't been the case for, what, 20 years now? At least? Your average smart-phone is nearly as powerful as a Playstation 3, these days. What is there to push? Graphics/sound have plateaued in a lot of ways - the real trick to making "pretty graphics" is how much time/money you have to spend on artists to create them.

It's amusing that they seem to be so concerned about making sure the meeting schedules work for people in different time zones.

Because, in my experience, meetings are absolutely useless. I've never been to a meeting that accomplished anything that couldn't be accomplished with a brief e-mail, or at WORST a brief phone call.

Meetings are nothing more than a way for middle-management-types to justify their existence.