The "Console Wars" Are Over

[Cerebralbore101]

JackHandy said:

Forget wars. These days, I feel like the console industry is already over, and I'm actively preparing to leave it. Every other day, I am seeing more and more studios using AI to make their games, and I feel like the writing is not just on the wall, it's tattooed to all our faces. Have we all realized it, yet? Clearly not. And some of us are going to be buck against the concept of gaming's demise so hard, that they're going to claim it's not that big a deal, that they will still love it, that everyone is just over-reacting. But the truth is, it is over. Done. Finished. This is the point in history where we're going to look back and realize that human art had been diagnosed with late-stage, terminal cancer; the beginning of the end.

So for me, I've decided to leave and spend my dollars building up and amassing a vast collection of retro consoles and games, things that I know were made by humans and that I will enjoy until the end of my days. Because they could release the second-coming, but if AI made it, I do not want it. You all can keep at it. I'm out.

Exactly this! I've spent the last 5 years really ramping up my game collecting and figuring out how to make oldersystems last longer. I'm slowly learning that everything from lasers to chips can be replaced or repaired. You just have to get inventive enough. The common argument that "These consoles won't last forever." is ignorant of all the progress made in the last 5 years, when it comes to repairing systems. You can literally have an NES be 90% new parts including the motherboard. It's only truly dead if the PPU is dead and even then there are FGPA (hardware emulation) replacements for that.