Oooooh, Crazy Taxi has the original music. Other ports didn't/couldn't license it.
techpression · 39m ago
One of the best game soundtracks ever, many fond memories of it playing hours upon hours on the Dreamcast.
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andrepd · 21m ago
> End of Service: These games will be discontinued and removed
Depressing how ephemeral and consumable everything is
consumer451 · 10m ago
Agreed. While pedantic, I edited my wording from:
"Only somewhat related, but very cool:" to "Only somewhat related, but a very cool link:"
I know that these packages can be preserved and sideloaded on Android, but not on iOS, correct?
v5v3 · 1h ago
The real story here is the highlighting of the flawed attempt to redact a document.
Happens a lot.
b0a04gl · 42m ago
persona 5 royal doing 7.25mil and sega still acting like it's some niche anime side hustle. meanwhile they keep pushing sonic into every genre except tax software
chrisco255 · 21m ago
Not gonna lie, SonicTax has a nice ring to it.
Hamuko · 22m ago
We do have a Persona 5 dungeon crawler, a Persona 5 rhythm game, a Persona 5 hack-and-slash game, a Persona 5 tactics game and a Persona 5 mobile game, as well as a Persona 5 TV anime and Persona 5 manga.
koshergweilo · 3h ago
It's wild to me how Team Sonic Racing sold more than Total War Three Kingdoms
CactusRocket · 2h ago
I think in general Total War and its genre is relatively niche. While almost everybody is up for a bit of cartoony racing.
furyofantares · 33m ago
I tbink it's easy to underestimate this - everyone seems surprised when I tell them Mario Kart 8 is the 5th best selling game of all time.
stavros · 16m ago
What's the list?!
andrepd · 19m ago
Well it's been continuously sold for over a decade now, and bundled with the Switch.
Ekaros · 1h ago
On other hand TW Warhammer III sold surprisingly well to me. I would have expected it to be much more niche...
makeitdouble · 58m ago
Team Sonic Racing is also available on iOS and android stores while Total War Three Kingdoms is PC only. The price must also be widely different, so the sales numbers are complex to compare.
raincole · 2h ago
... Why? It would be quite surprising if it were the other way around.
I'm quite surprised that TW:3D sold that many copies, tbh.
It’s amazing how valuable of an IP Sonic is. It still sells consistently well after all those years.
I’m surprised even more at the P5R sales! I might actually have to give it a real try— tried it a couple years ago (P5 non-R) and didn’t really take to it, but I was put off by the whole anime vibe.
haiku2077 · 3h ago
If you don't like the anime style, Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is directly inspired by Persona's combat system but has a more mature tone. I liked it a lot, and it's 97% positive reviews on Steam, so you're likely to enjoy it too.
v5v3 · 1h ago
>It’s amazing how valuable of an IP Sonic is. It still sells consistently well after all those years.
There have been ongoing movies and tv shows so each generation of kids grows up with Sonic.
nottorp · 2h ago
> directly inspired by Persona's combat system
That means they're both QTE based?
weiliddat · 2h ago
Turn based but with QTE elements
PixelForg · 2h ago
And you can even parry! In terms of parrying, for me it is harder and more satisfying than Sekiro's parry system(which was my number one game in terms of combat, now Clair Obscur has taken it's place).
nottorp · 1h ago
How is it turn based when you get timed prompts to "press button not to die"?
TeMPOraL · 1h ago
How is hamburger not a salad when there are veggies in it?
Proportions matter.
haiku2077 · 41m ago
When you select what action you want to do, the combat is paused and the game displays a menu.
Executing the action, dodging and parrying, and shooting ranged weapons all happen in real time.
It works really well in practice, combining both strategic and twitch gameplay.
nottorp · 28m ago
Of course, if you like twitch gameplay, and if you can stomach twitch gameplay being labeled as "turn based".
I might agree with the former but I don't like false advertising.
npodbielski · 2h ago
You do not have to Parry. You do not have to dodge. Most od the game you can tank and heal or resurect.
xdfgh1112 · 3h ago
If you're put off by the anime vibe then there's no point trying it at all, you won't like it. It is a very anime game
Keyframe · 34m ago
Power of the brand! I wonder how that (change) reflected on FIFA / FC for Electronic Arts.
chickenzzzzu · 23m ago
EA is still doing fine financially, despite some duds. It turns out people buy fun, not names.
hnlmorg · 2h ago
Sega is one of those companies quietly pumping out content for a loyal fan base. They don’t get as much limelight as Nintendo do with their IP, which is a shame because Sega’s games are definitely on a par with the stuff Nintendo release.
> It’s amazing how valuable of an IP Sonic is. It still sells consistently well after all those years.
It’s not as surprising when you consider Sonic is also mascot who they’ve ploughed millions into.
The movies will have definitely reignited some interest into Sonic too
ekianjo · 1h ago
> Sega is one of those companies quietly milking IP dry for a loyal fan base
That's more like it
hnlmorg · 30m ago
Not really no. You must be thinking about Nintendo.
When you look at pretty much every other brand out there, Sega aren’t nearly as aggressively milking their IPs.
They’re not even in the same league as Nintendo, Disney, Lego, etc. And when you look at other games companies from the same era (Capcom, Atari, etc) then you’d see that Sega are still releasing original content too vs the same rehashed shit that people buy purely because of the name.
Then on the other end of the spectrum you have companies buying studios and letting those games rot (like EA). Studios encouraging micro-transactions (Microsoft with Minecraft, EA, Roblox, Epic, etc) and even underage gambling with loot boxes. Shit that has no place in gaming.
Also Sega aren’t nearly one of the least aggressive companies out there “defending” their IP against fan-made content.
Sega are a massively underrated brand in today’s gaming landscape.
ineedaj0b · 2h ago
it sold well because i've bought a copy on every console. i'd play for 30 mins, get bored, and quit. it finally took after i played for 5 hours straight. i finally got 'it'. try playing it on break at work. you've really got to get a few hours in because the game's first level is basically a huge tutorial.
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amiga386 · 52m ago
Sonic fans spend money regardless of game quality.
It's the same reason for the decade-long glut of capeshit. Hollywood found that (people who were then) teenage boys could be relied upon to show up for a superhero film, no matter how bad, provided it starred their favourite characters.
chgs · 19m ago
To be fair there were very few misses in Marvel until covid.
throwaway743 · 1h ago
Surprised Like A Dragon sales are lower than others. Been gaming since a kid in the 90s, and it easily ranked in my top 10. It's an instant classic.
extraduder_ire · 1h ago
That whole series is pretty niche in the grand scale of things. Still does decently for a game that releases a sequel every year or two.
StefanBatory · 1h ago
To see WH3 sell less than Three Kingdoms was a surprise to me.
swarnie · 2h ago
Video game consumers have always baffled me and this data just adds to it.
Who are the 7 million people going out to buy the 20th Persona game? What are you actually hoping to get from it that isn't just a slight variance on something you've already had multiple times before?
I have friends genuinely excited to go buy Mario Cart for the 17th time this year... Once you've made two objects move along an enclosed route at differing speeds and slapped Nintendo marketing on top hasn't the game play evolved as much as possible?
Could the money not be better spent coming up with new and interesting concepts rather than copy pasting the same stuff out every 12-18 months?
radicalbyte · 2h ago
You can apply that logic to anything: why bother returning to the same great restaurant? Why bother with sports matches? Why buy a new car? New mobile? New computer? New TV? Why install a new version of an OS or software?
It's because they change: They tell new stories. They look better. They play better. They introduce completely new mechanics.
Persona: we're up to 5 in 25 years (almost 30 now!), during which time we've seen a massive increase in compute on consoles. Having a new game every 5 years seems very reasonable.
misnome · 1h ago
Not to mention the entirely of art, music, literature. The concept of stories in general.
It’s such an absurdly bad take they can’t be serious.
TeMPOraL · 2h ago
Are you also surprised by popularity of sitcoms like Friends or HIMYM, or reality shows? They're even more repetitive rehashes of the same mundane thing, both episode to episode and within the genre.
Who are the millions of people who watch, for the 20th time in their life, how Character A does something unrealistically stupid, ends up in an awkward situation, and then spend the rest of the episode being continuously teased over it by other characters, because they're all written to be slightly stupid and low-key assholes.
This is not to criticize sitcoms and reality shows (and people watching them) here, but rather to point out that the same phenomenon you described also manifests with vastly more popular forms of entertainment, so there must be something to enjoying the experience beyond sheer originality.
swarnie · 25m ago
I was going to make a point here about it being ok to occasionally churn out some uncomplicated slop because it helps fund more interesting projects, that was until i looked up the maker of Friends and found NBC pretty much only make that kind of stuff.
NBC and Nintendo, no evolution or original thought. Just copy paste it to the masses because its all the seem to want anyway based on this thread.
Maybe im wrong for demanding more....
Fargren · 11m ago
Things can be challenging, easy, predictable, and trite and still be good. Garfield/Tetris/KFC is fine. There's not shame in enjoying it, and there's certainly no shame in working on it (or selling it).
Evolution and original stuff are amazing and we should want them to exist. To be disappointed because we also have stuff that isn't like that is to turn a blind eye to what makes up a lot of our life.
chgs · 17m ago
You’re not willing to pay for more though. You thought that the only way “good” things were funded was by “bad” things which people enjoy subsidising you.
inertiatic · 2h ago
You know, humans pick up hobbies like cycling or running which they do consistently for years, listen to specific music genres or even electronic music which is mostly just a beat, hang up a painting they like in the living room and look at it for years and years, go out to their favorite place to eat consistently or cook the same passed down family recipe, and in so many other aspects avoid sudden changes, and you're surprised that for video games we enjoy the same formula repeatedly?
swarnie · 2h ago
If you walked in to my living room and saw 17 almost identical paintings where maybe one is styled to look like papercraft, one has a little dinosaur, one has a racoon tail ect you'd rightly think i was a bit mad even before i announced i'd paid $80 for each one.
Now if i had 17 unique paintings exploring a variety of motifs and styles, each one with a story to tell that would actually be worth talking about.
skeaker · 48m ago
Likening a game to a painting is just a false premise. Games are a unique medium that can in themselves hold lots of different things which inherently makes them hard to compare wholesale to other mediums. They can be similar to Chess in the sense of requiring strategy or a physical sport in that they can be almost entirely composed of the skill expression of the players. They can even hold paintings or novels in their entirety, or do something entirely unique that just can't be done in other mediums (my favorite example of that is Outer Wilds).
InsideOutSanta · 1h ago
Why are you so judgmental of what kinds of paintings people hang on their walls? Just hang the paintings on your walls that you like and leave everybody else alone.
captainbland · 1h ago
Mario Kart World added some kind of extreme sports game style features which make it play quite a lot differently from older entries, and of course new content which takes advantage of that.
In some ways this is the optimal way for a video game company to innovate as they need ROI (people don't generally buy new IPs in high numbers even if they're really good and it often takes a couple of installments to build trust and sales!) so creating new gameplay out of trusted IPs is a good way of achieving that.
InsideOutSanta · 58m ago
I could understand if the complaint was about a sports game. Most of them are released annually and are genuinely very similar to their previous versions.
However, every new Mario Kart game is genuinely distinct from its predecessor. You can show me any screenshot of any Mario Kart game, and I will immediately be able to identify what version it is.
jkafjanvnfaf · 1h ago
The only series that release "every 12-18 months" are sports games and Call of Duty, and I can assure you that the overlap between that audience and the Persona one (which has five main-series entries of which barely anyone has played the first two) is extremely small.
Have you considered that you may just be very out of touch?
oreally · 19m ago
It's just the palate of the mass consumer who has such busy lives that they don't have the time to think about what other games can offer them.
And even if a "new and interesting concept" turns up, it's is too bothersome to learn for them. That's why once they find the fun in one thing, they tend to stick to it and be blind to others.
Ekaros · 1h ago
Same could be said about movies, tv-shows and books. Same plots over and over again.
Religion is really the worst offender. Same service with same text time after time, year after year. Like they do not even take effort to mix it up every couple years or rewrite it...
ozim · 35m ago
I really like if they would do shotgun Jesus riding a t-Rex that instead of being crucified is immersed in giant crucible showing thumbs up as he is consumed by molten hot metal because he knows he will be back.
elaus · 2h ago
Is this really limited to video games?
People are excited to buy new cloths, even though they're "just a slight variance on something you've already had multiple times before".
They love to try out the new hyped-up food stand, even though the hotdog will be just a slight variance on all the hotdogs they had before.
msgodel · 2h ago
Clothes wear out though. I buy the same two maroon and gray button up shirts once a year because usually the ones I bought a few years ago have holes in them by then.
Video games don't wear out, you can still play the same software you bought in 2003 today.
tsimionescu · 1h ago
Why do you assume that the millions of people who buy the new Persona or Mario Kart game are the same ones that bought the old one? It's very likely that they're fresh 12-20 somethings that were younger or otherwise just missed the old ones.
Not to mention, for Perosna in particular, each Perosna game tells a whole new story, so buying the fifth one is like going to see the fifth movie in a franchise: you know you like the style, and you want to experience a new story in this style. It's also not even a very long series - compare to Final Fantasy, for example, which will soon get its 17th main game (probably more like 25th or something if you included spinoffs).
TeMPOraL · 1h ago
> Video games don't wear out, you can still play the same software you bought in 2003 today.
The way you perceive them does, at least did back in 2023 (or 2013) and earlier.
You pick up, say, original Half Life or something from that time; story-wise it's the same game you remember, but in terms of experience, is nigh-unplayable in its original form now, because you already experienced how decades of progress in videogames look like. Not just in terms of graphics, though that is a big part, but also in terms of UI! Properly mapped controls and GUI behaviors are alone worth looking up/waiting for a remake. And/or, the Nth installment of a game in the same universe.
msgodel · 1h ago
I often play games from the 90s from before I learned to read. IMO often they're better than modern games including their own remakes.
Every good game has odd control schemes, that doesn't mean it's worn out.
louiskottmann · 2h ago
There a lots of gamers. Games like Baldur's Gate & Expedition 33, which satisfies your criteria, far surpassed those numbers already.
I know people who rewatch the same TV series every year and go to the same vacation every year.
Fear of change is deep.
TeMPOraL · 1h ago
Fear of change, or even just isles of stability, to help recuperate and reorient yourself whilst navigating the stormy seas of life.
Myself, I'm quite open to new forms of entertainment, as well as those previously unknown to me. Even within my favorite genres, I'm more than happy to explore - but I'm still gonna rewatch at least one Star Trek show each year.
It doesn't matter that I've seen most of those show 6-10 times each over the course of my life; it doesn't matter that I've watched some specific episodes 20+ times already. What matters to me is, each time I see those characters and those locations, it feels like coming home.
(And more so than actually coming home.)
People anchor to different things like this, not just TV shows. Sometimes it's a real place (or an event in that place - e.g. vacation), sometimes it's a club, sometimes it's a video game or an outdoor hobby.
Pooge · 1h ago
Because games get better and gameplay (i.e. mechanics) get changed.
Play Persona 5 Royal, then Persona 1. Tell us it's the same game and everybody would think you are crazy. Hell, even Persona 5 Royal is way better than Persona 5 in a lot of ways...
Maybe you are satisfied by only trying out completely new things—if they even exist—but most people don't.
InsideOutSanta · 1h ago
Why do people read books? They all arrange the same letters in a different order. Once you know the letters, you've seen all the books.
Den_VR · 2h ago
Tell us what you think about professional football next
swarnie · 2h ago
The British one? Bores me to tears
The American version? Same but with more advertisements for pharmaceuticals.
I think that's more an issue with the specific rules/players/fans though, I've not had a problem watching multiple matches of other sports in a day.
ozim · 43m ago
Your take on this is downvoted because that’s quite arrogant to reduce all racing games to two objects moving.
Everything in life can be much more complicated and nuanced if you put an effort in it as reality has infinite amount of details. There is a lot of value in refining successful concepts.
Also a lot of “new and interesting concepts” turn out not to be that useful or that interesting like not that many people listening to experimental music or reading novels whose writers think they are smarter than everyone else.
nikanj · 2h ago
For many people, the 17th Mario Kart is the first one they buy. New people are made every day, and they won’t pay today’s prices for the first SNES version of Mario Kart
matsemann · 1h ago
Or we haven't played every game in the series. Like how most iPhone generations "are the same", but most people don't buy every year.
I last played Mario Kart on Nintendo Wii and enjoyed it. That's 17 years ago. I'll probably buy one of the newer versions at some point. And it will be very different from the game I played.
xg15 · 1h ago
I think this is the correct answer, and also applies to other media: The 20th Star Wars or Disney reboot isn't for you - it's for your grandchildren.
throwaway743 · 1h ago
Because they're fun and slight variances can have huge impacts in terms of emergence, among other things.
100721 · 1h ago
Sometimes, we just don’t “get” the appeal of something. For me, one of those things is fishing.
For someone else, it might be reading Hacker News.
For you, it’s video games.
I don’t think there’s anything wrong with differences of opinion, even to the point of bewilderment, but it doesn’t feel productive to question people’s interests and reduce them to, frankly, disingenuous levels of oversimplification.
I think one of the more beautiful parts of the internet is how we can be connected and talk about our differences and understand each other better. But it does not seem like you are truly attempting to understand, instead your posts read more like “looking down one’s nose,” which isn’t fruitful or productive for anyone.
Maybe I am mistaken! If so, I’d like to encourage you to try to reach understanding of others without depicting them as “mad” or financially wasteful or simple-minded.
khazhoux · 1h ago
Wait till you hear how many chess games I've played!
swarnie · 1h ago
That's fine, no one is stopping the development of new board games to re-releases chess every six months with maybe one new piece or higher definition.
> These retro SEGA games are now free on Android (and iOS) until they disappear forever
https://www.androidauthority.com/sega-retro-games-android-fr...
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Depressing how ephemeral and consumable everything is
"Only somewhat related, but very cool:" to "Only somewhat related, but a very cool link:"
I know that these packages can be preserved and sideloaded on Android, but not on iOS, correct?
Happens a lot.
I'm quite surprised that TW:3D sold that many copies, tbh.
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I’m surprised even more at the P5R sales! I might actually have to give it a real try— tried it a couple years ago (P5 non-R) and didn’t really take to it, but I was put off by the whole anime vibe.
There have been ongoing movies and tv shows so each generation of kids grows up with Sonic.
That means they're both QTE based?
Proportions matter.
Executing the action, dodging and parrying, and shooting ranged weapons all happen in real time.
It works really well in practice, combining both strategic and twitch gameplay.
I might agree with the former but I don't like false advertising.
> It’s amazing how valuable of an IP Sonic is. It still sells consistently well after all those years.
It’s not as surprising when you consider Sonic is also mascot who they’ve ploughed millions into.
The movies will have definitely reignited some interest into Sonic too
That's more like it
When you look at pretty much every other brand out there, Sega aren’t nearly as aggressively milking their IPs.
They’re not even in the same league as Nintendo, Disney, Lego, etc. And when you look at other games companies from the same era (Capcom, Atari, etc) then you’d see that Sega are still releasing original content too vs the same rehashed shit that people buy purely because of the name.
Then on the other end of the spectrum you have companies buying studios and letting those games rot (like EA). Studios encouraging micro-transactions (Microsoft with Minecraft, EA, Roblox, Epic, etc) and even underage gambling with loot boxes. Shit that has no place in gaming.
Also Sega aren’t nearly one of the least aggressive companies out there “defending” their IP against fan-made content.
Sega are a massively underrated brand in today’s gaming landscape.
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It's the same reason for the decade-long glut of capeshit. Hollywood found that (people who were then) teenage boys could be relied upon to show up for a superhero film, no matter how bad, provided it starred their favourite characters.
Who are the 7 million people going out to buy the 20th Persona game? What are you actually hoping to get from it that isn't just a slight variance on something you've already had multiple times before?
I have friends genuinely excited to go buy Mario Cart for the 17th time this year... Once you've made two objects move along an enclosed route at differing speeds and slapped Nintendo marketing on top hasn't the game play evolved as much as possible?
Could the money not be better spent coming up with new and interesting concepts rather than copy pasting the same stuff out every 12-18 months?
It's because they change: They tell new stories. They look better. They play better. They introduce completely new mechanics.
Persona: we're up to 5 in 25 years (almost 30 now!), during which time we've seen a massive increase in compute on consoles. Having a new game every 5 years seems very reasonable.
It’s such an absurdly bad take they can’t be serious.
Who are the millions of people who watch, for the 20th time in their life, how Character A does something unrealistically stupid, ends up in an awkward situation, and then spend the rest of the episode being continuously teased over it by other characters, because they're all written to be slightly stupid and low-key assholes.
This is not to criticize sitcoms and reality shows (and people watching them) here, but rather to point out that the same phenomenon you described also manifests with vastly more popular forms of entertainment, so there must be something to enjoying the experience beyond sheer originality.
NBC and Nintendo, no evolution or original thought. Just copy paste it to the masses because its all the seem to want anyway based on this thread.
Maybe im wrong for demanding more....
Evolution and original stuff are amazing and we should want them to exist. To be disappointed because we also have stuff that isn't like that is to turn a blind eye to what makes up a lot of our life.
Now if i had 17 unique paintings exploring a variety of motifs and styles, each one with a story to tell that would actually be worth talking about.
In some ways this is the optimal way for a video game company to innovate as they need ROI (people don't generally buy new IPs in high numbers even if they're really good and it often takes a couple of installments to build trust and sales!) so creating new gameplay out of trusted IPs is a good way of achieving that.
However, every new Mario Kart game is genuinely distinct from its predecessor. You can show me any screenshot of any Mario Kart game, and I will immediately be able to identify what version it is.
Have you considered that you may just be very out of touch?
And even if a "new and interesting concept" turns up, it's is too bothersome to learn for them. That's why once they find the fun in one thing, they tend to stick to it and be blind to others.
Religion is really the worst offender. Same service with same text time after time, year after year. Like they do not even take effort to mix it up every couple years or rewrite it...
People are excited to buy new cloths, even though they're "just a slight variance on something you've already had multiple times before".
They love to try out the new hyped-up food stand, even though the hotdog will be just a slight variance on all the hotdogs they had before.
Video games don't wear out, you can still play the same software you bought in 2003 today.
Not to mention, for Perosna in particular, each Perosna game tells a whole new story, so buying the fifth one is like going to see the fifth movie in a franchise: you know you like the style, and you want to experience a new story in this style. It's also not even a very long series - compare to Final Fantasy, for example, which will soon get its 17th main game (probably more like 25th or something if you included spinoffs).
The way you perceive them does, at least did back in 2023 (or 2013) and earlier.
You pick up, say, original Half Life or something from that time; story-wise it's the same game you remember, but in terms of experience, is nigh-unplayable in its original form now, because you already experienced how decades of progress in videogames look like. Not just in terms of graphics, though that is a big part, but also in terms of UI! Properly mapped controls and GUI behaviors are alone worth looking up/waiting for a remake. And/or, the Nth installment of a game in the same universe.
Every good game has odd control schemes, that doesn't mean it's worn out.
I know people who rewatch the same TV series every year and go to the same vacation every year.
Fear of change is deep.
Myself, I'm quite open to new forms of entertainment, as well as those previously unknown to me. Even within my favorite genres, I'm more than happy to explore - but I'm still gonna rewatch at least one Star Trek show each year.
It doesn't matter that I've seen most of those show 6-10 times each over the course of my life; it doesn't matter that I've watched some specific episodes 20+ times already. What matters to me is, each time I see those characters and those locations, it feels like coming home.
(And more so than actually coming home.)
People anchor to different things like this, not just TV shows. Sometimes it's a real place (or an event in that place - e.g. vacation), sometimes it's a club, sometimes it's a video game or an outdoor hobby.
Play Persona 5 Royal, then Persona 1. Tell us it's the same game and everybody would think you are crazy. Hell, even Persona 5 Royal is way better than Persona 5 in a lot of ways...
Maybe you are satisfied by only trying out completely new things—if they even exist—but most people don't.
The American version? Same but with more advertisements for pharmaceuticals.
I think that's more an issue with the specific rules/players/fans though, I've not had a problem watching multiple matches of other sports in a day.
Everything in life can be much more complicated and nuanced if you put an effort in it as reality has infinite amount of details. There is a lot of value in refining successful concepts.
Also a lot of “new and interesting concepts” turn out not to be that useful or that interesting like not that many people listening to experimental music or reading novels whose writers think they are smarter than everyone else.
I last played Mario Kart on Nintendo Wii and enjoyed it. That's 17 years ago. I'll probably buy one of the newer versions at some point. And it will be very different from the game I played.
For someone else, it might be reading Hacker News.
For you, it’s video games.
I don’t think there’s anything wrong with differences of opinion, even to the point of bewilderment, but it doesn’t feel productive to question people’s interests and reduce them to, frankly, disingenuous levels of oversimplification.
I think one of the more beautiful parts of the internet is how we can be connected and talk about our differences and understand each other better. But it does not seem like you are truly attempting to understand, instead your posts read more like “looking down one’s nose,” which isn’t fruitful or productive for anyone.
Maybe I am mistaken! If so, I’d like to encourage you to try to reach understanding of others without depicting them as “mad” or financially wasteful or simple-minded.