Yeha, the statement sounds like it came straight from 4chanGuy always sounds so damn lame.
"the most advanced videogame storage facility ever constructed." Just sounds like such a douche.
Yeha, the statement sounds like it came straight from 4chanGuy always sounds so damn lame.
"the most advanced videogame storage facility ever constructed." Just sounds like such a douche.
I don't know about the rest of you guys but personally I'm seeing this as a fantastic opportunity to bankrupt a white supremacist.
It should really go to a museum for videogames for all to visit but where?
I also don't like the idea of rich people just collecting shit.There's one in Texas that's fairly big I hear.
I like the idea of it going to a game museum. I mean, it isn't like there's any games to preserve on this thing, right? Do they have any game prototypes that can actually run on it?
Also, fuck Palmer Luckey.
I am preserving the original copies in the most advanced videogame storage facility ever constructed
I imagine the bar there is extremely low, so I certainly don't think what he is saying is unlikely.
Everyone knee-deep in game collecting purports to be preservationists.
It should really go to a museum for videogames for all to visit but where?
There's one in Texas that's fairly big I hear.
I like the idea of it going to a game museum. I mean, it isn't like there's any games to preserve on this thing, right? Do they have any game prototypes that can actually run on it?
Also, fuck Palmer Luckey.
Everyone knee-deep in game collecting purports to be preservationists.
If I really wanted something so rare, I wouldn't bring attention to it on Twitter lol
It should really go to a museum for videogames for all to visit but where?
Or Nintendo. Interesting legal question!
It's like looking ahead to the PS5 launch...
At this point, it doesn't hugely matter who owns it. The device has been thoroughly analysed and shown off to the world by now. If he's really building some kind of advanced storage then he's probably one of the better people to keep it.
One of Sony's former executives kept it after leaving the company. When the company he later worked for went belly up after the recession they sold off everything he had in his office. One of those was the Nintendo PlayStation, which was bought at an auction by one of the company's employees with a bunch of silverware and old CD's. He didn't know what it was at the time. It sat in his attic for years before his son found out what it was through a Reddit post and decided to show it off. He and his dad toured around a bunch of conventions showing it off.
My guess is they aren't interested in holding on to it. The dad looks pretty old and I'm sure he'd like some cash to retire with and has no means to preserve an old prototype. Hence the auction.
Super Bunnyhop did a great video on the whole thing:
The story on the auction page and that the current owner tells as well is that Olaf Olafsson took it with him when he left Sony, but then left it at his next company after he left and it just ended up in an auction lot for a bankruptcy sale. Whether or not Olafsson could have taken it is another issue I suppose...
Well the second part was me saying " if it is this or nothing, this is better than nothing"
Which we both agree on
The first part was me saying "there are better causes that could use this money"
Which we both agree on
You disagree with the point I never actually made, which was "I don't really think it's worth spending any significant amount of money preserving video games over other charitable causes"
If you want to reply to posts, please make sure you read them properly before replying, otherwise you end up misrepresenting people which is both annoying, and can derail the thread
While video games are by no means obscenely important in the grand scheme of things, they're still worth preserving