Xbox 360 turned 20 this year
I don’t even understand how that’s possible. The Xbox might be 20 years old, but the 360 is the new one, isn’t it?
as a 25 year old i agree, there’s no way xbox 360 is only 5 years younger than me, that thing came out recently what the hell
I’m 19, the 360 is older than me???
Released in 2005, homie.
yea ! it’s the newest one ! gotta try that gears of war thing, looks dope ! let’s meet at 4 at my place ?? my mom made cookies
Reading those words filled me existential dread.
fun fact! the xbox 360 is as old now as the NES was when the 360 released 🙂
no, that cannot be
I had to check. If you live in Japan, that was last year. In the US it was in 2025.
This is just unthinkable. I still haven’t accepted it.
Feels like my OG 360 elite just red ringed yesterday. I still use one of the controllers for PC gaming.
not fun fact: I had more hair when the 360 released than now or when the NES released
no way, you’re lying
Said this in another thread a couple of days/weeks ago (what is time?) but it still feels like a fever dream to be reminded of it.
So you’re into retro memes?
yea i thought people on lemny often like memes about being old for sone reason
It’s called an Xbox 360 because when you see it you turn around 360 degrees and walk away.
If it weren’t for that damn Switch, the 360 would be the newest console I own.
Here’s what’s just plugged in at the moment, and not in milk crates in the basement:
(Don’t @ me about my shitty cell phone picture I took in the dark. I’m not getting out the mirrorless and the studio lighting for this, plus this way the potato quality handily conceals the fact that I probably also need to vacuum that carpet.)
What are you talking about? The photo quality is great. It’s not studio quality, but calling it potato quality would make the actually bad photos… what’s worse than potato? Hamster wheel quality?
Calling this photo “potato quality” is the same as calling the 360 and the PS3 “retro consoles”.
Honestly the only thing I as going to comment was the weight maximum on that shelving. Setup is great, would hate for you to lose something to fall damage because the shelving gave out.
I built that myself. Most of it is 3/4" ply. The shelves are side-screwed with 2-1/4" Spax screws, not resting on pegs (thus, also they can’t be moved). It’s not going anywhere.
Oh shit nice! Apologies, it looks like any other mainstream cabinet / entertainment center so I assumed it was some shitheap of fiber board. Good stuff man! Keep gaming!
Seeing the amount of dust that has gathered everywhere, the carpet would be the least of my worries.
I mean, we are on PS5 and that feels like it came out a while ago.
It’s also technology plateauing, a PS3 isn’t functionally very different than a PS5.
IMO it’s actually inferior since you got to play for online play
I dunno, I feel like I can still pick out PS3-era graphics. But the PS4 and PS5 are so similar that they still co-release games for both with only minor visual upgrades, so I agree with your overall point if not your example.
As a child of the eighties, it feels like post PS3 things totally stagnated but this is a couple of factors working together to create the illusion that there’s been no progress. First off we went from everything being 2d to everything being 3d in the course of a single console generation. There used to be huge and noticeable upgrades because models were getting so much more detail with every generation. There’s also the diminishing returns they’re getting on graphical enhancements; the leaps forward require massively more powerful hardware to render and most of the enhancement is in details and effects which aren’t as noticeable as doubling the polygon count of your models.
The last game I played that I immediately thought “wow, there’s no way this would even be possible in a previous gen” was GTA3.
Even this latest gen, the biggest improvement feels like the SSD rather than the raytracing.
From my limited understanding, the PS3’s architecture is actually very different from PCs and modern consoles. From a developer’s perspective, it was very different to make games for it, its capabilities and strengths and weaknesses were just different. So it’s no surprise that its games have a certain look and feel to them.
The PS4 and later, OTOH, is a more standard PC architecture which means iterative improvements and less difference between generations.
Disclaimer: didn’t fact-check any of this, would appreciate replies correcting mistakes
I think you might be one generation ahead. I remember the PS3 being touted as a computer in its own right, and stories about people installing Linux on it.
But I could be wrong.
It was marketed for PS2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_for_PlayStation_2
The PS3 could run Linux initially, but Sony remotely disabled it on account of being a shower of cunts, resulting in a bunch of lawsuits (which even more cuntingly they paid out on, sooner than re-enable Linux).
That said I think you may be talking slightly at cross purposes; the ability to run Linux isn’t tied to processor architecture, and doesn’t mean anything in terms of what the PS3 was like to develop for as a professional game studio.
Fair point.
This reads like someone telling me they couldn’t see the difference between their old CRT set and HD.
That’s fair, though I can definitely see a difference between CRT and HD. And between HD and 4K, for that matter, though not between 4K and 8K (at least not at normal viewing distances).
Not to mention the awful UI for the PS5 and potential lack of a disc drive, so you may not have a bluray/DVD player
Also I have to turn off the ps5 controllers before plugging them in or they won’t charge.
PS3 is the only console that had exclusives I still have yet to play because I never had the console. Some have PS4/PS5 remasters, or re-releases I have played on PS5, but MGS4 has yet to be one of them.
I just watched MGS4 on YouTube, since it’s mostly a movie anyway.
I bought a PS3 years after it was released, partly just to play MGS4 since I was a big fan of the OG and the 3rd game.
Couldn’t have been more disappointed, personally. It has a few highlights, but overall I found the story just felt really off, even for a Kojima game. It was particularly boring, convoluted, and unsatisfying. Honestly wished I had just watched it on youtube instead.
Other than that, I kinda struggled to find other PS3 exclusives that peaked my interest. The Ratchet & Clank games it had are pretty good. Motorstorm is a great racer, but other than that… At least for my interests, the rest of the library is pretty underwhelming. Ended up selling it without regrets.
I was into ICO and Shadow of the Colossus, so I was waiting for The Last Guardian before getting a PS3 (it wss originally supposed to be a PS3 game). It ended up skipping the PS3 and getting released on the PS4. I got to play the remaster on PS5 and, hoo boy. All the performance issues I remember reading about in the OG release were also there on the remaster. It has been, so far, the worst performing game I have played on the system. Even Dragon’s Dogma 2 was better at launch (and way better now after all the patches. Still a crap game tho).
Ahh, damn. I did quite enjoy Shadow of the Colossus (haven’t hit ICO yet). Shame to hear TLG is so troubled, I haven’t been compelled to pick up newer consoles, and with that news, even less so.
If it wasn’t for Bloodborne, the Demon’s Souls Remake, and getting a rando $2000 from the state, I wouldn’t have even thought to get a PS5 myself. I just lucked out and had the money to justify getting it for just the two games. I lucked out again earlier this year and got a Switch 2 I did not order with stuff I actually did, and i’m probably not even gonna touch it until Duskbloods comes out because I just don’t really care that much for Nintendo games anymore.
The Xbox runs the og XBMC. It is still my media server after 20ish years. Having to use FTP for it is kind of a pain, though. Upside is 500gb hard drive with old Xbox games and every emulator game I’d ever want to run.
Ohh no, you made me feel old. My dad had a Xbox 360, and I was born in fucking 2009
Edit: and I played on it alot. Castle crashers was amazing (:
You were born in 2009?
turns to dust and crumbles away
I heard they still make 'em today !!
You don’t get to talk about feeling old until the grocery store is playing your favorite songs.
It freaks me out to hear Kids by Animal Collective* when I’m selecting cabbage.
‘Wow, this store is hip and with it!’
: Trips on a radicchio and shatters hip:
*It was by MGMT, actually.
Isn’t Kids by MGMT?
Sure is! I stand corrected.
it’s… all the small things.
surprises let me know she cares
careful online posting your age when ur under 18 cause of pedos
It’s been 20 years, man.
I missed you so much
Similar joke from ‘Cheers.’
Sam and Woody are talking. Same says that sometimes he likes to put on really old rock and roll; The Supremes, Buddy Holly, Screaming Jay Hawkins, and the like. He asks Woody if he likes the old stuff.
I don’t, says Woody, but my Mom used to like to put on her old Devo records.
You forgot the Wii, which is the obvious winner here
As somenone who grown up playing super nintendo, mega drive, N64 and Playstation One, everytime i see one of these memes, it make me remember than my knee hurt for a reason…
Fun fact, last summer we had an intern younger than the Wii in our gaming room.
love my wii u to bits, including the wii games i play on it that are older than me
