Previous Generation Console Have Gone Up

[JackHandy]

curl-6 said:

JackHandy said:

While I understand the reasoning behind it, it does feel strange when you're playing a game one a modern HDTV and it looks far worse. There's this moment of weird disconnect where you're like, wait... why did we think liquid displays were better again? When a TV that was manufactured in 1999 looks and performs better than a TV made in 2021, something is wrong. Clearly, the people designing these things didn't take any of this into consideration.

Yeah, it is strange; we've effectively traded in responsiveness and that soft smoothness of the image for sharpness it seems.

Digital Foundry did an interesting piece on it: https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/digitalfoundry-2019-modern-games-look-beautiful-on-crt-monitors

Speaking of older games, before I even knew what framerate was I used to switch quite happily between Starfox at 15fps and Mario at 60fps on my SNES. I think the first game that ever made me really notice framerate was Banjo Tooie, and that shit was extremely inconsistent and it was more the fluctuation I noticed when it would go into almost slow motion.

I have no idea why prices are high. It was just a guess. But if you look at Ebay for sealed retro consoles, you'll see what I'm talking about. So it wouldn't surprise me to find out the reason these prices are going up is because supply is quickly running out, and the hoarders/resellers are going at it like festering sharks.