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[–] [email protected] 32 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Do you think the Nintendo Sound Clock Alarmo will make the list?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

The question is... Over or under Virtual Boy?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I still regret not snagging one from KB dirt cheap. They lined the top of every aisle.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

Legend says they're still there.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

Same. I swear they were $20 one day we breezed through Toys R Us, and I could not convince my mom to grab one.

So I bought one on eBay a decade later.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 weeks ago

I'm still seeing red.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I put way too many hours into that machine. No wonder I'm immune to LASIK.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I'm so upset a Virtual Boy Wario game hasn't been remade.

I thought it was peak gaming and it didn't do anything complex.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

3DS was the perfect opportunity and Nintendo did not give a tiniest shit.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Someone made a virtual boy emulator for the 3ds (Nintendidn't), and those games just show how much potential they wasted with the 3DS.

Did anyone make a game where the 3D was necessary for gameplay? Absolutely everything I've seen on the console it was optional (except for the emulated VB games).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

The screen had a slider where you could turn it off. It kinda had to be optional.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 weeks ago

Wow. My top 3 are in the bottom 4. Feels good.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Color and SP in shamble (I figure they're wrapped up in the original consoles, but still)

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago

DS Lite, too

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Crazy to see the N64 so far down the list. I was a Sega-, then Sony-kid but it seemed like the N64 had a better market share than the graphic would imply. Might just be confirmation bias based on my age though.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

The N64 had mediocre sales and a trickle of releases, but the hits kept coming, and some of them were transformative. It's like if the Wii U had a Wind Waker level success every six months.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

Fuck, I meant Breath of the Wild.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

Same. I imagine that game quality has someting to do with it. Total number of units may be lower, but I can list n64 games that i loved even now. A lot of them. Sega for me was sonic and thats mostly it. Ps1 games is a mixed bag. I have vague memories, but nothing was that special. It was just a console that ran on a disk. Those cartridges though are permanent in my mind.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I feel like the DS Lite sold better than the OG DS?

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

According to Wikipedia, 154m units is combined DS, DS Lite, DSi and DSi XL

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago

Makes sense.

I bought FOUR Nintendo DSes.

Two Nintendo DSes for my wife and I. Gave one to my cousin as a gift. Then bought a DS XL for Zelda.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

I can't confirm this for the people I know... why do you think it would have sold better than the original DS? People who bought the DS Lite probably didn't already own the DS, and people who already owned the DS probably didn't have a reason to buy the Lite version (apart from a new and sleeker design, I can't remember any groundbreaking innovations that would justify buying another DS onsole for many people, unlike the DSi with its new camera function).

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

At first I thought it had to do with cash registers. People using “till” in place of “‘til” or “until” drives me crazy.

(Also, using “a” like in “two times a year” creeps me out too. Sure, I say “a year” but in writing it looks sloppy.)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

"till" and "til" are both absolutely fine to use as an abbreviation for "until"

In fact the double-L spelling has been around longer

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

Because right now in 2024 we have the word “until” (one L) so using the word till as an abbreviation looks dumb as shit.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

huh? so you say "two times year"? that's crazier.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Why would you assume they say nothing instead of the correct word, per?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Because they only mentioned what creeps them out, offering no option (hence my comment) instead of the «correct» one.

plus my mind blanked, heh

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

... I still don't get it. Till? Two?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

Aight, I'm a modern Nintendo hater, but the DS lite was so good. It had a great games library, an excellent layout that didn't cramp my hands as a child or an adult, and a solid touch screen. Peer to peer networking was so nice in an era where you very rarely had internet anywhere and it was never fast enough for gaming.

I think I must've spent hours in pitcochat alone. Plus, my almost 20 year old DS lite still works. I used it to play some of the Layton games just recently! I did manage to break one, but that was cause my mother put some obnoxiously large case on it that made it impossible to play anything. Tried ripping it off and tore the sections in half

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

It's this individual models? There were so many diffetent DS models

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago

If I understood the original PDF correctly, this contains all models of the generation. This applies also to the different GBA models.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

As of August 2024, cumulative sales of Sony’s PlayStation 4 gaming console had risen to roughly 117.2 million units

Nintendo Switch was the best-selling video game console worldwide in 2022

the Xbox One, was put to market in 2013 and sold roughly 58 million units in total until the end of its lifespan in 2020.

https://www.statista.com

[–] [email protected] -4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

That is such a death sentence looking at the switch. There are probably more than 10 times more gamerz than there were at the DS release but they did not sell more at all.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

When the switch was released, everyone already had a smartphone capeable for gaming. This was not the case in 2004.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

IMO that's probably more because of how many people owned multiple DS's, I've known several people who collected them