MAMEWorld Forums - News - Re: Sony moves their commercial emulator to the PC

> I'm a Sony Hater since Playstation 2.
> Please Sony go sell only home appliances, leave PC users alone and go to hell with
> your stupid exclusives.

What an odd statement.

The PS2 is what I would consider to be the last of the 'real' consoles, and easily the high point of the industry. Even a lot of the best games on the PS3 were rereleases of PS2 games.

It was the generation before all this online stuff and DLC became the norm, it was the generation where a gold master really meant you had a game that played from start to finish without major issues because reputations actually depended on it.

It was an era where games had large amounts of actual side content without padding things out with award systems instead. These days every last inch of a game map seems to require so much detail things either end up being entirely copy-pasted pre-fabs or the games get streamlined, same for dialog with the expectation that everything is voiced now.

It was also an era where split-screen multiplayer was right there where you wanted it to be in the majority of games that needed it, ideal for having friends over.

It was also the last era where you were never sure what the next 'must buy' AAA title was going to be, the last one with a good selection of 3D platformers etc.

Seems a strange case for hating Sony that one.

That said, yeah, I think this thing is just some video streaming service, and considering how unplayable and laggy games are just streamed from one room of this house to another over a wired connection I still don't see how that tech is the future like some people predict.

Not saying everything of that era was perfect btw, but as far as games on their native systems were concerned it was definitely a high point, multiplatform ports could be a bit ropey (PC to PS2 didn't work well, see Deus Ex, and ports the other way tended to be lazy, but you can't really blame Sony for that)