• Jimmycakes@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    Emulated games are free, polished, complete

    Modern games are $80+ steaming incomplete pile of shit

    This mystery will never be solved.

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      3 days ago

      I assume they’re referring to actual hardware. I’d imagine the percentage of gamers playing emulated games is much higher than 14%.

      Edit: Found the article

      It appears I am correct.

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      Modern games: requires $300+ game console or a $300+ GPU to get 30 FPS

      Retro games: runs on your grandma’s Dell Pavilion still running Windows XP that she refuses to stop using, gets 50/60 depending on region

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      2 days ago

      Almost all of my modern games are indies. Most cost between $5 and $30. I love retro too but if we’re going to only include modern “AAA” titles in the comparison…