#XBONE

[sometipsygnostalgic]

Video game console and case design

Today's hyperfixation is on the PLAYSTATION 5. Because I want one, but I really shouldn't buy one, so I am just looking up everything to do with games consoles and burning my brain out.

I used to be a proper xbox player, until I got my PC, then I never really touched by xbox again. I got a PS4 to play Persona 5 and since then it's been a blu ray player for my Adventure Time boxset, not much else. But the current gen - PS5, Series X - is arguably more powerful than my gaming PC, and I still have a lot of friends stuck on PS5, so I am considering investing in a unit.

Anyway is it me or did they really shit the bed with design in this generation?

Look at these chunky fuckers! They do not fit smoothly under your television at all. There is no detail or decoration breaking up their unnecessarily large faces, which makes them look bland and ugly. They look like they're made of cheap plastic, with the two controllers being the highest quality thing about them. I can attest the xbox controller is unbeatable, but playstation really made their shot this generation. A shame I can never get used to the dualshock joystick positioning.

The Series S and the PS5 Slim are almost NO improvement on the base designs.

For some reason they made the Series S look like a speaker???

The new PS5 slim FINALLY has a line across that massive faceplate, but the half matte half glossed finish is not doing it any favours. I think it would've looked much better if, for example, the matte and gloss plates were different colours. Like black and white! It also has an even MORE out of place disc drive, which I think is part of Sony's agenda to go digital only, and the two tiny "feet" for its horizontal positioning are pathetic! Personally I like this more than the original but not significantly, disappointing since I was really looking forward to it.

I want you to compare these nasties to the previous generation - the PS4 and the XBOX One.

....Now, what's hilarious about this image is the consoles look ALMOST IDENTICAL from this angle. And, I guess, that would be why Sony and Microsoft decided to make such a departure with the space heater PS5 and the fridge Series X.

But they both look very premium and advanced, and they fit very nicely in your living room.

The companies tried to look a bit more distinguished in their followup versions in the previous gen too. The white PS4 Pro looks a lot closer to PS5 with its quirkiness, but without the atrocious shiny plastic. Sony tended to add or remove a layer whenever they altered the PS4, I wonder what they would look like all stacked on top of each other.

It's not just the games console designs that suffer - Look at the game cases! I know that the companies want to incentivise you to go digital, but Xbox Series X cases are just awful.

So if you're confused - You should be!!! Microsoft have two kinds of case for the Series X. One of them is the EXACT SAME CASE as Xbox One, but with Series X printed on the front. The second newer version foregoes the sexy Xbox logo entirely and just has Xbox Series X printed in some default font. Awful awful awful.

Playstation is doing better, but barely.

They are reusing PS4 cases with a different print on them. It doesn't look as horrible as Xbox's, and it at least has a different colour on the logo, but damn, the jump between PS3/360 and PS4/One was really impressive, and now they've stopped bothering because they want everyone to go digital. If your game cases look like shit, why bother with physical?

I want to contrast with physical media kings Nintendo, who did an outstanding job in 2017 with designing the case for the Nintendo Switch.

These bad boys are mine. They're super thin, easy to stack, decent quality, and F U N. The red colour pallette makes them pop out. You can see one from across the store and go, "damn, that's a Nintendo Switch game".

I just want a thousand of them.

I would say a disadvantage, especially compared to the Gamecube games next to them, and even compared to 3ds, is that you can't tell what game you're looking at without going right up to them. These cases are TOO uniform, and really tiny, so i have to triple check I am picking up Xenoblade Chronicles 3 and not Tony Hawk Pro Skater. Meanwhile you can tell exactly what Gamecube games I have by colour pallette alone. Like, you can instantly tell that's Windwaker.

The switch in general is a very fun looking games console, much nicer looking than its predecessor the Wii U, though I'm not sure how I feel about the white of the OLED. But every time I see a Switch Lite in stores, even though I know it's worse than my Switch, I want to buy one. It just looks so FUUUUUN.

And finally a special mention to the 3DS and its games case. The console itself was pretty stylish, if... rudimentary for its release period, but the games cases are high quality and almost make me want to have 3ds games just so I can have the cases.

[flojocabron]

08/24/24: Saturday yard sale bonanza! I can't believe all these nice things I got this morning! A guy on Facebook posted his yard sale and he put up a pic saying most games $5 bucks. So of course my curiosity got me! And when I made it there, I saw a big table full of multiple games from different consoles. Quite a few commons that I had already. So I grabbed a few I didn't have. And as I kept searching, my stack got bigger. Japanese games were popping out too! I also found some nes and snes carts but the man wanted $10 each for those. And I bit on a few og nintendo carts. So I finally had to stop. I think I got enough. Five JPN psp games, five jpn DS games, one wii game, two ps3 games, two xbone and 1 ps4 game. Two ps1 games. And ps1 Dragon Quest VII jpn! Total for everything there was $135 dollars! And just to make it an even $140, I grabbed Pit-fighter SNES. And the guy was cool with it. I'm excited to add these to my ever growing collection!

[xboxissues]

New Xbox Games for August 5th to August 9th 2024

[marshmallow--3]

What are good video games (Xbone) for autistic people to play? I like shooters but now I've got my diagnosis, it explains why my aiming is terrible and only gets worse the more I practice. I like games where you can go off on your own and you don't have to stay as a team (so that's a no to Battlefield and Rainbow Six Siege).

I already play Sims (grown bored of it), Fortnite (not much aiming required), and Overwatch (too much aiming required and damn the fanbase is toxic) and I don't want a game that's pay to win either.

Thank you for any suggestions.

[storybookhawke]

DAO

DA2

[rabbitclown]

[sokumotanaka]

Bit of a shame Fable dropped its cartoony/cell shaded artstyle to pick up a generic realistic art style. It's what differentiated it from every rpg that has to look "realistic" now cause it's the norm, things can't be stylized western rpgs.

[meiistheprimarynow]

Xbone tan! I had an older design of her but I didn't like it anymore so I changed it up!

[triplesmoon]

First time playing in a month, and oh how I missed PPKK_K and midair Torture Attacks.

[jaythelay]

It isn't like anyone understood framerates enough to argue this point because the point was so blatant.

My absolute WIDEST SWING of a guess towards a non-conspiracy is that YouTube introduced 60fps shortly after that period, and at that point you could literally show people that it exists.

That's it. That doesn't explain the sheer girth of rage from people arguing that 30fps was the cap of the human eye.

Really consider people like your parents and ask if they'd be that upset for something they had no horse in the race for. Now remember we're talking gamers, who know what lag is... Well...They know what Lag for Latency and Lag for Framerate drops and performance issues are.

30fps simply is arbitrary. It HAD to be a marketing campaign, because nobody still believes it. Even at that time, there was nothing but evidence, the consoles having 60-120fps isn't enough either, they'd still argue to this day, it doesn't happen. That was a MASSIVE campaign.

I even saw some 24-12fps stuff because of animation, and like...I don't know how else to say it, but I just don't believe it.

It's arbitrary, there are No Horses in this race for people. Just companies.

[flojocabron]

10/02/24: Wednesday fleamarket finds! Did better than last week. But the lingering SoCal fall heat is still making searching a bit uncomfortable. Anyways, my first finds were two wii games, a ps3, xbone and wii U game and a dvd of Breaking Bad; all for $12 bucks. I got random blurays and a dvd for a dollar each from different places. Four well loved M.A.S.K. 80s toys for $10. A more recent Grimlock Dinobot Transformers toy for $3.00. And a commemorative glass cup from the 1978 Superman movie for a dollar too. And lastly, a beauty and a summoned beast! A Summoned Skull Yugioh funko pop and an anime figure from a quintuplet anime. Got both for $15. Not a bad start for October.

[xboxissues]

Coming to Xbox Game Pass Late October 2024

[captain-neverlose]

Tangential: I think Microsoft intentionally trolled us with their naming convention. There isn't a clear way to refer to the first console since they released the Xbox One (though I do like that you can call it the "X-Bone")

Why do we call the original playstation PSX anyways

[marshmallow--3]

Can someone help me fix my Xbox, please?

Every time you turn the console on, you have to pair the controller to it. Once I pair the controller (tried different batteries, different days, unplugging all the leads and plugs and making sure they're plugged back in firmly,) it will flash whatever selection is highlighted like in the video, and it won't let you press A to select.

Please help, because either way whether I keep the Xbox or sell it, it needs to be in working condition.

[yansurnummu]

my gf has informed me that the new da game has a sexy old wizard. godammit

[rabbitclown]

hello windows