24K Gold-plated version of the Playstation 5 Goes on Preorder

#5813237 Posted on: 07/29/2020 12:43 PM

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People like retro systems for 4 reasons:
1. Nostalgia
2. Hipster appeal
3. The games were fun (a lot of games today are over-complicated and focus more on realism or microtransactions than actually being a fun complete package)
4. There's inherent value in them because good ones are very finite, and a lot of those systems defined what we know as gaming today.

Bear in mind, PS4 is going to be about 8 years old by the time PS5 comes out. It wont be seen as retro in 2023, and since PS5 will have backward compatibility, it will be largely forgotten.
Both PS4 and XB1 will be systems nobody in the future will care about except for collectors, and even then, collectors probably won't have them plugged in because their successors would work fine. They just aren't novel enough.


I agree with your statement, mostly about the finite reasons. Still maybe 10 years is a bit short maybe 20-25 years it's possible it could be this retro system. Guess it depends if they keep them backwards compatible as that gives them the finite appeal.

Also wont the ps4 be 7 years old? Came out 2013 right. Also ps3 had backwards compatibility but ps1 and ps2 games have that retro appeal so don't think it's always 100% true. But they don't hit the level of Nintendo 64, but maybe that's more an Nintendo thing? Due to how exclusive their games are.

Also as a side note the vita is not that old, but I have sold a bunch of games recently like rachet and clank trilogy which went for more than I bought it for. Now that's a muti generation game, on many systems but the price on it sky rocketed on a system that didn't do to well. Maybe that's due to a finite number of games. But you can get it digitally on mutiple systems and physical on mutiple systems. But maybe that's just an odd one

#5813254 Posted on: 07/29/2020 01:29 PM

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Yes, 25 years sounds more reasonable. Even PS3 and Xbox 360 still don't feel that old. But even then, the amount of exclusive games for PS4 (regardless of backward compatibility) is somewhat slim pickings, which lowers the value even more.

Actually yeah, I was thinking it was going to be released in 2021.
Wasn't PS3's backward compatibility somewhat limited? From what I recall, the system originally wasn't backward compatible, but it's been a while and I never owned one.
And yeah, Nintendo will always be the more appealing system in the long run due to its exclusives and more iconic IP. I'm confident that even a flop like Wii U will be more appealing than PS3 or PS4 20 years from now.

The vita is a lot like the Sega Game Gear - really cool system that just didn't really take off, but it has some passionate followers who wish it went somewhere.

#5813258 Posted on: 07/29/2020 01:36 PM

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And what would you coat it with to prevent oxidation? I am sure that greenish/grayish surface isolates rather well.


Nano anodization.
Increases contact surface area, increasing conductivity.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/333115186-Improvement-of-thermal-conductivity-by-anodized-copper-coating



Maybe his only sin is trying to be a normal person who knows about "long" words in a forum where people love being controversial over everything and everything is an attack to your personal likes and beliefs.


my head hurts..

#5813283 Posted on: 07/29/2020 02:36 PM

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Nano anodization.
Increases contact surface area, increasing conductivity.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/333115186-Improvement-of-thermal-conductivity-by-anodized-copper-coating

Possibly. But I would not want to touch it. Nor would it be really pretty "blink blink" surface.
Would likely have to be brushed surface to make some eye pleasing lines and then anodized. But that's not nice surface to touch.
But "but" no.2, person next door would be like: "Meh, ugly."

These things are problematic.

#5813296 Posted on: 07/29/2020 03:10 PM

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Yes, 25 years sounds more reasonable. Even PS3 and Xbox 360 still don't feel that old. But even then, the amount of exclusive games for PS4 (regardless of backward compatibility) is somewhat slim pickings, which lowers the value even more.

Actually yeah, I was thinking it was going to be released in 2021.
Wasn't PS3's backward compatibility somewhat limited? From what I recall, the system originally wasn't backward compatible, but it's been a while and I never owned one.
And yeah, Nintendo will always be the more appealing system in the long run due to its exclusives and more iconic IP. I'm confident that even a flop like Wii U will be more appealing than PS3 or PS4 20 years from now.

The vita is a lot like the Sega Game Gear - really cool system that just didn't really take off, but it has some passionate followers who wish it went somewhere.

Sorry on mobile so hard to split up your response with mine

Yeah these generations feel quite close together even though they are actually the longest generations we ever had. The ps4 does kind of have some but it's a few ps2 games and ps3 games that got ported over.

The original 1 or 2 models of the ps3 had ps1 support and ps2, then next model had ps1 and some ps2 support over software. Then the later ones when they went to slim ps3 only had ps1 support not ps2. So hit or miss depending on the model.

I agree Nintendo wiiu even I picked one up, purely for the exlysives like Mario and zelda. They do have a timeless charm to them.

I do wish they never did the vita that dirty. Its a beautiful system that just never got the love it deserved. I do wonder if they had waited till after the ps4 came out, and it hard more power then if it would have been loved more. Cause the system is crazy strong for a handheld in 2011, you see uncharted on it and it's quite mind blowing what they could achieve of it.