Oh it’s not easy at all and I’m not surprised that Sony isn’t even attempting it.
As for Microsoft I’m not sure the cost effectiveness of it really matters from their perspective (and I don’t believe any company is actually interested in the preservation side of it unless there’s a remote chance they can turn a profit at some point (see: the big movie studios)). Microsoft (and probably Sony too) still don’t turn a profit from hardware sales and probably never will. The hardware is just there so they can plug you into Xbox Live and their online store. With the things like backwards compatibility they’re just trying to keep a core audience loyal to the brand so they have a “presence” in the public consciousness. Something for the kids online to fight over as these companies groom them into being lifetime consumers in their walled gardens.
that sounds way too much like a coherent strategy when it’s more like a bunch of people trying to figure out what on earth to do with a bag of shit ballmer left them
yeah, it’s just so typically microsoftian to try to pitch this nontrivial engineering project which has always been the domain of unofficial efforts in the first place as a play for brand loyalty
it doesn’t map particularly badly to “throw pile of money at problem” so in that respect they’re well-suited to it but it’s like, was anyone in the world not going to run windows 10 in the first place in favour of some other platform before they sweetened the deal with phantom dust
oh wait you’re worried that windows 10 breaks compatibility with older stuff?? I didn’t even consider that on first read. it doesn’t really! not anything that isn’t so old it shouldn’t be emulated in dosbox moving forward anyway.
broadly speaking consumer PC operating systems post-PPC OSX up to now have very little practical advantages over current platforms or preservation value (other than as themselves), there’s very little that hasn’t been built directly on top of
yeah that! I will admit that it seems real hard to find a current list of games that don’t run (though I’m sure that’s due in part to the obscurity of some of this older software), all the google results are from like two years ago, or just lists of steam games, which you can look up on steam anyway.
I’m just paranoid, probably. Though, even if I felt like upgrading, it’s $100+.
also stealing windows is still trivial, I’m pretty sure I’m actually running a pirate copy on my work machine which is actually kind of egregious because I was too lazy to look up who was in charge of our keys when I did this install and it was quicker to torrent
it’s like the one thing I really should know better than to do but at the same time I’m thoroughly convinced I’m beneath notice
I brought my friend the superhot vr experience for christmas and his back is hurting and he’s exhausted but he insists on continuing to play even if from the floor.
yeah, you should. if you’re gonna run windows you shouldn’t run out of date windows and most non-10 releases will go unsupported in another year or so
plus there’s quality of life stuff in there like mouse hover scrolling unfocused windows and better compositor shortcuts and screen recording and ISO mounting and PDF printing that required external utilities on Windows until very recently
I’m playing through Dragon Quest VI
It is my least favorite so far, for a lot of little reasons.
Though I do enjoy that it has the same ‘storybook’ feel as Dragon Quest IV.
It directly references Dragon Quest IV sometimes, which helps. IV being one of my favorites.
These are definately getting ‘too long’.
I’ll probably play VII at some point despite that.
If you’re playing the DS version, the party chat system is fantastic & was crucial to me for enjoying the game. Every single line of npc dialogue, even dogs going “bark” etc, has its own unique response from each of your party members. Better yet, when npcs do that typical video game thing where they don’t change their dialogue after some event, your party members DO. So some old man will still be complaining about the evil threatening the town, after you’ve already beaten the local boss, and your squad will be like “looks like this one didn’t get the message,” “I guess news travels slowly around here,” etc. It’s mind blowing.
