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Lol, not even a little bit. Just like I don't miss CD's for music and DVDs for movies. I download all my games. It would be like complaining that you have to use a remote instead of walking to the TV to change the channel.

Not that I use channels anymore.



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Ka-pi96 said:
Cloudman said:
Ka-pi96 said:

Who says you can't still do that if you want to?

I guess the difference is you have to go thru an OS and menus before getting to the game, or all your games are downloaded, so you don't need to shuffle games.

Not really, I mean the games auto start as soon as you pop the disc in. So you aren't really doing anything more than you did before anyways.

Well, for the Wii and PS3, you had to go through menus and get to the game first before you can start the game, so that was a little annoying (Don't get me started when the bloody PS3 needed an update and I would be irritated and have to wait...) The Wii U's is better now : ) I don't know how th3 PS4's works...



 

              

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Ka-pi96 said:
Cloudman said:
Ka-pi96 said:

Not really, I mean the games auto start as soon as you pop the disc in. So you aren't really doing anything more than you did before anyways.

Well, for the Wii and PS3, you had to go through menus and get to the game first before you can start the game, so that was a little annoying (Don't get me started when the bloody PS3 needed an update and I would be irritated and have to wait...) The Wii U's is better now : ) I don't know how th3 PS4's works...

Not for PS3 you don't. I just checked, turn the console on, pop in a disc, wait a couple seconds for it read the disc and the game auto starts.


Yeah, you're right. When I slid a game in, it loaded right up. Although, you still need to sign in, and if the game is already in, you have to navigate to the game.



 

              

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kowenicki said:
Rose tinted spectacles.

I walk into my gaming room, I say "xbox on". By the time I have sat down my xbox, tv and AV is on, no remotes to press, no power buttins to press. Next, I press two buttons and I am in a game.

That is a LOT quicker than turning on the console, turning on the tv, turning on the av and then putting a cartridge in.

Not if you have to download a 3GB day one patch as soon as you bring the game home.

Thats more of a laziness issue with the developers though.Same story with releasing DLC later on that should have been part of the game to begin with, the new Sims game is an extreme example of this.



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fory77 said:

yes

 

It's interesting how modern consoles can take more than 5 second to load a game when the Atari 2600 does it instantly. I thought technology was supposed to become faster as time passed D:

Yeah, we can all just bury our heads in the sand.

The largest super Nintendo games were 48Mb carts. That's megabits. So basically 6MB. 6MB!!!!!

The average game today is  30GB That's 240,000Mb. Think about that for a second.



Cloudman said:
Ka-pi96 said:
Cloudman said:
Ka-pi96 said:

Who says you can't still do that if you want to?

I guess the difference is you have to go thru an OS and menus before getting to the game, or all your games are downloaded, so you don't need to shuffle games.

Not really, I mean the games auto start as soon as you pop the disc in. So you aren't really doing anything more than you did before anyways.

Well, for the Wii and PS3, you had to go through menus and get to the game first before you can start the game, so that was a little annoying (Don't get me started when the bloody PS3 needed an update and I would be irritated and have to wait...) The Wii U's is better now : ) I don't know how th3 PS4's works...

PS3, I always got to go to the settings and turn off auto game start because I doon't like that it does it by default, not sure what you're talking about



Teflon02 said:
Cloudman said:

Well, for the Wii and PS3, you had to go through menus and get to the game first before you can start the game, so that was a little annoying (Don't get me started when the bloody PS3 needed an update and I would be irritated and have to wait...) The Wii U's is better now : ) I don't know how th3 PS4's works...

PS3, I always got to go to the settings and turn off auto game start because I doon't like that it does it by default, not sure what you're talking about

Sorry, I'm not sure what you mean either...



 

              

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Intrinsic said:
fory77 said:

yes

 

It's interesting how modern consoles can take more than 5 second to load a game when the Atari 2600 does it instantly. I thought technology was supposed to become faster as time passed D:

Yeah, we can all just bury our heads in the sand.

The largest super Nintendo games were 48Mb carts. That's megabits. So basically 6MB. 6MB!!!!!

The average game today is  30GB That's 240,000Mb. Think about that for a second.

That was just a lame joke. Didn't you get it?

I know Blu-ray discs have more space than SNES carts.



fory77 said:
Intrinsic said:

Yeah, we can all just bury our heads in the sand.

The largest super Nintendo games were 48Mb carts. That's megabits. So basically 6MB. 6MB!!!!!

The average game today is  30GB That's 240,000Mb. Think about that for a second.

That was just a lame joke. Didn't you get it?

I know Blu-ray discs have more space than SNES carts.

sorry, didn't catch it.. then again I'm still nursing a hangover that seems not to wanna go before my team starts playing now (go arsenal!!!)