| ▲ | michalpleban 2 days ago |
| The headline made me fear that I will need to shell out a few more bucks for 4164 DRAM chips, but fortunately this does not seem to be the case. DDR3 is not "retro", for chrissakes. |
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| ▲ | lexicality 2 days ago | parent | next [-] |
| It was introduced barely 20 years ago. By that rationale the PS3 is a retro console |
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| ▲ | wlesieutre 2 days ago | parent | next [-] | | In 2000 when the PS2 came out was the NES a retro console? It was 17 years old, or 14 years since wide distribution in the USA. What counts as "retro" basically comes down to when the person you ask was born. | | |
| ▲ | holycrapwhodat 2 days ago | parent [-] | | New NES were still available in the US through at least Christmas 1992, and in Europe deep into 1995, both selling alongside the SNES since 1991. The final new international games were released in 1994, but Europe still got new games into 1995. Japanese Famicoms were still being sold in Japan when the PS2 released. They sold more in Japan in 2001 than in 2000. So no, calling the NES "retro" in 2000 wouldn't have made all too much sense. | | |
| ▲ | wlesieutre a day ago | parent | next [-] | | I don't have the magazine to verify, but wikipedia says > In 2005, Retro Gamer called Snes9x "the best SNES emulator available".[12] If there was a Retro Gamer magazine writing about SNES emulators, I think it's safe to say some people did consider even the SNES to be retro, 14 years after its US release. My personal experience having used Snes9x around that time, we also considered it retro. Clearly not everyone though, which is my point in saying what's retro will depend on who you ask. | |
| ▲ | cwillu a day ago | parent | prev [-] | | Except people definitely did call it retro back then, so clearly the facts you point out aren't the entire picture of what makes something retro. |
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| ▲ | ssl-3 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | It tracks. Let's put it into perspective: By 2006 when the PS3 came 'round, the NES was definitely retro. It wasn't a livingroom staple anymore, and examples that survived were well-loved (either in the wear-and-tear way, in the appreciation-of-objects way, or both). The NES was only ~21 years old at the time that the PS3 came out. | |
| ▲ | LeoPanthera 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | The PS3 is a retro console. | |
| ▲ | Kuinox 2 days ago | parent | prev [-] | | yes the ps3 is now considered a retro console. | | |
| ▲ | cookiengineer a day ago | parent [-] | | > yes the ps3 is now considered a retro console. kids these days... stares at the C64 in the corner |
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| ▲ | HerbManic 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| I was about to say. DDR 2/3 I can still see many use cases for that stuff in modern-ish tech. I am currently looking for some EDO sticks for a really well preserved IBM Aptiva I found on the side of the road. That stuff is expensive for a very different reason. |
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| ▲ | voidfunc 2 days ago | parent | next [-] | | There might be some Aptiva EDO RAM sitting in my parents basement... Ill have to look next time im out there. Im not sure if I ripped it out and stored it before we sent the computer off to recycling eons ago. | |
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| ▲ | RetroTechie a day ago | parent | prev [-] |
| Good. 4164 DRAM production should be able to keep up with demand then. |
