When Does a Console Die?

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Valkyrie-Favor wrote:I think the PSP will live forever like the Dreamcast.

So a small group of people who have rose-tinted glasses will continue to play it and declare it the best system ever?

Couldn't you say that about all retro consoles? :|

Yes, but PSP isn't the retro console that our rose-tinted glasses are calibrated for.
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The whole "console dying" thing is a concept conceived by modern gamers.
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oxymoron wrote:The whole "console dying" thing is a concept conceived by modern gamers.

If by modern you mean "people who were around for the Saturn", then yes.
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^ Too mean. I remember the Virtual Boy and 32X (if one chooses to call it a console) tanking pretty hard before that.
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MrPopo wrote:
oxymoron wrote:The whole "console dying" thing is a concept conceived by modern gamers.

If by modern you mean "people who were around for the Saturn", then yes.

It sold better than N64 in glorious Nippon (unless you're referring to the fragility of CD-based consoles)
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pierrot wrote:Never. They live on in the hearts of gamers everywhere.

Except maybe the game.com or Nokia N-gage. No one wants those things cluttering up their basements, much less their hearts.


Hey now, I own a complete N-gage collection and I think it is a great gaming system. Every system has a following and I really think that no system will ever die.
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TheSegaSaturnGuy wrote:
pierrot wrote:Never. They live on in the hearts of gamers everywhere.

Except maybe the game.com or Nokia N-gage. No one wants those things cluttering up their basements, much less their hearts.


Hey now, I own a complete N-gage collection and I think it is a great gaming system. Every system has a following and I really think that no system will ever die.

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Tiger and Konami Handhelds. Dead.

I do need to hunt down a Bayou Billy Konami handheld for some reason I can't explain.
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