In 1991, local newsstation reports Nintendo released their successor to the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES) in...
So parents think it’s a big taking advantage of you conspiracy to get you to spend $200 every 5 years but I don’t remember seeing these news stories about cars lasting 5-7 years and needing to be replaced
Remember, news has always manufactured outrage for its customers (advertisers). Guess Nintendo didn’t spend enough on the network
Funny enough now I think this conspiracy is truer than ever, because only a handful of new releases actually require the full capabilities of a PS5 or an XSX, and most of them are being made by first-party studios to sell those consoles.
If we think of phones, that is definitely true. To the point some brands like Apple have been found actively undermining older devices to sell new ones.
Sony made it even more deliberate. They blocked sales on PS3 for the same games that were on PS4. So a game may be $40 and on sale for $12 on PS4 but it would stay $40 on ps3. Developers complained about it and it was out of their hands
Didn’t happen on Xbox. And of course on steam it was the same game all along
Because they hate their customers for some reason.
I get companies exist to make money, but look at the Xbox unit. They understand having your customers like you increases profits. Sony seems to want to piss them off. Which is funny because the situation was flipped a couple times over the years
True, but the biggest reason customer were pissed at Microsoft with the Xbox was the whole ordeal with the Kinect and required online 100% of the time at launch of the One. MS actually listened to customers and walked those choices back. You don’t see that walk back to these anti-consumer choices that companies make often enough anymore.
It’s fine, just have to understand why they’re saying what they’re saying and what their motivation is
First and foremost they’re an ad company. They sell ad space. They just need to scare people into watching, outrage them enough, get them habitually hooked
In 1991 video games were not seen as a good use of time as theoretically you weren’t gaining any skill from them.
Cars are a false equivalence as they aren’t purely entertainment like SNES was.
Finally in 1991 most news media still had a “wall” between reporting/editorial staff and finances so things like ad placements weren’t as much if a factor. Removing that artificial division, which meant media was run as a company first rather than as a news source first, is behind a lot of the decline in news quality.
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So parents think it’s a big taking advantage of you conspiracy to get you to spend $200 every 5 years but I don’t remember seeing these news stories about cars lasting 5-7 years and needing to be replaced
Remember, news has always manufactured outrage for its customers (advertisers). Guess Nintendo didn’t spend enough on the network
Funny enough now I think this conspiracy is truer than ever, because only a handful of new releases actually require the full capabilities of a PS5 or an XSX, and most of them are being made by first-party studios to sell those consoles.
If we think of phones, that is definitely true. To the point some brands like Apple have been found actively undermining older devices to sell new ones.
Sony made it even more deliberate. They blocked sales on PS3 for the same games that were on PS4. So a game may be $40 and on sale for $12 on PS4 but it would stay $40 on ps3. Developers complained about it and it was out of their hands
Didn’t happen on Xbox. And of course on steam it was the same game all along
Why are these Japanese companies Sony / Nintendo so scummy when it comes to this shit?
Because they hate their customers for some reason.
I get companies exist to make money, but look at the Xbox unit. They understand having your customers like you increases profits. Sony seems to want to piss them off. Which is funny because the situation was flipped a couple times over the years
True, but the biggest reason customer were pissed at Microsoft with the Xbox was the whole ordeal with the Kinect and required online 100% of the time at launch of the One. MS actually listened to customers and walked those choices back. You don’t see that walk back to these anti-consumer choices that companies make often enough anymore.
Well, they ditched the idiot running Xbox and brought in someone who actually understands what gamers want. That was a huge move
Shame it already had the damage though. Stupid $100 Kinect tax was just brutal
Yeah yeah, news bad, ban them all. /s
It’s fine, just have to understand why they’re saying what they’re saying and what their motivation is
First and foremost they’re an ad company. They sell ad space. They just need to scare people into watching, outrage them enough, get them habitually hooked
In 1991 video games were not seen as a good use of time as theoretically you weren’t gaining any skill from them.
Cars are a false equivalence as they aren’t purely entertainment like SNES was.
Finally in 1991 most news media still had a “wall” between reporting/editorial staff and finances so things like ad placements weren’t as much if a factor. Removing that artificial division, which meant media was run as a company first rather than as a news source first, is behind a lot of the decline in news quality.
Well, VCRs or TVs then. Microwaves. Vacuum cleaners. Lawn mowers. Plenty of expensive shit that broke every 5 years
My first VCR was a gift in 1985. It broke three years ago. The ones we got in the mid 1990s as we bought more than one TV died faster.
1991 is still when most things were built to last and also video games consoles as a whole could be accurately seen as a “fad” by adults at the time.
I’ve got the lawn mower of Theseus, almost every part has been replaced at least once.
I want to buy a new one so bad, but every time mine stops working I manage to fix it.