From GDC: Building the Next Generation of Xbox – Xbox Wire
This is a summary of my Xbox Developer Summit keynote address, delivered March 11 at the 2026 Game…
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I was looking through the requirements to play Crimson Desert on PC when I saw in the same article two other tables for console specs, and now I'm confused, I thought ONE of the main advantages of having a console was not having to think if the game is gonna run great on the system. For the love of Kojima, what happened to console gaming? Especially this gen where there are three gen-exclusive and they might run like shit on your device.
Look I get it selling a cheaper version of a console, but it should have less storage, or not having physical drive (which still isn't great) but having the "same device" with a different performance is quite stupid.
(I'm complaining about the industry, not the consumers here, chill)
#Console command of the day: factor
Type in "factor <number>" and you get all the #prime factors of the number.
This command is part of the #GNU #coreutils so if you’re on a GNU/#Linux system, you should already have it.
As PlayStation moves into being a console monopoly (Nintendo plays on its own market), we're getting late stage gaming.
PlayStation is testing Dynamic Pricing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pd4TNJKTObY
If you don't live in a first world country, you're going to be gauged.
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PS6 Rumors Are Heating Up: “Orion” Console and “Canis” Handheld Leaks Explained - #Baskingamer
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Futuristic Gameboy console
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Another Dreamcast in the Wall!
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Randy in Sokobanland (the #NES homebrew based on #RandyandManilla) is also available on Indie Retro Games (The store specialized on homebrews): https://alex9monfort-af7873e7.indieretrogames.com/randy-in-sokobanland
Randy in Sokobanland (the #NES homebrew based on #RandyandManilla) is also available on Indie Retro Games (The store specialized on homebrews): https://alex9monfort-af7873e7.indieretrogames.com/randy-in-sokobanland
Sony May Be Testing Dynamic Pricing On PlayStation Store Games #console #gaming #playstation #sony
https://www.lowyat.net/2026/385690/sony-testing-dynamic-pricing-playstation-games/
What My Friends Mean To Me Answer #53: My friends support me when I feel pain. https://rons-home.net/en/living-life-lab/personal-growth/what-my-friends-mean-to-me/answer-of-the-day/2026/03/08 #encouragement #console #comfort
:blobcatgamer: Extremely rare East German Game Console from the late 1970s tested.
One of the rarest video game consoles ever made has been acquired and tested by YouTube docu-channel Fern. What you will see and hear about in the video linked below is the Bildschirmspiel 01 [or BSS 01 for short], produced in East Germany from 1979 to 1981. This is a basic gaming machine, offering only four Pong-like variants and monochrome graphics, played via a pair of tethered paddle controllers.
⁉️Nevertheless, the rarity factor means this sample, one of just a handful thought to remain, costs around $1,000 to buy at auction.⁉️
![⁉️It wasn’t created just for fun and frolics, though, as you can imagine. [Fern] suggests that the populace in the West was seen to be advancing into the computing and video game eras at a rapid pace since the early 1970s [arcade and home gaming, home computing]. While those behind the Iron Curtain could restrict popular knowledge of the goings-on in the West to some degree, there was some information flow, so something had to be done to avoid the West getting too far ahead in tech and prevent feelings that the GDR was being left behind.⁉️
So, in 1977, the GDR made microelectronics a new priority. The policy shift was made to strengthen the country’s position as an industrial nation and to benefit the public by expanding access to home computing and gaming.
👾An East German Electrical Engineer with a reputation for delivering results, Karl Nendel, was appointed to lead the development of a GDR games console. Nendel visited a semiconductor plant in Frankfurt Oder, previously busy building components for radios and TVs. In 1976-77, Nedel arrived with both an Atari console and some ROMs containing Pong, tasked with building a GDR version. The result was the BSS 01, which first hit production in 1979.👾](https://files.mastodon.social/cache/media_attachments/files/116/188/689/944/270/853/original/92ebaa7d331716c3.jpeg)
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⁉️The docu-channel claims that only about a thousand BSS 01 consoles were made, and the rarest model [white with white controllers] is the one that they managed to snag for their analysis.⁉️
<https://www.bundesarchiv.de/themen-entdecken/online-entdecken/themenbeitraege/spielefans-unter-beobachtung/>
BSS 01 Tech Specs:
Like other early electronic games, this console wasn’t built using a general purpose microprocessor, RAM, storage, etc. Instead, it featured hard-wired transistor-transistor logic [TTL] circuits. However, the key gaming logic was all handled by an Eastern Bloc clone of the AY-3-8500 chip.
👾[Fern] spends considerable time discussing why the GDR, a proxy state of the USSR, a state behind the Iron Curtain, would want to create a games console. Given the central planning and resource allocation of such a state, it was indeed the government that decided to enter the video gaming market in 1977.👾
According to the new video tests, the games available on the BSS 01 are very much like the early Pong variations available on home consoles in the West in the early 1970s. The host didn’t seem very impressed or entertained, noting one variant was an “exact copy of the western version of Pong.”
<https://youtu.be/78vWO2SCfEk>](https://files.mastodon.social/cache/media_attachments/files/116/188/689/989/492/887/original/b343fe9d94810c1f.jpeg)
![[ImageSource: YouTube docu-channel Fern]
Pricing Problem:
Unfortunately for the BSS 01, its price tag would be too high to make it attractive. According to the video, it would launch at a price approximately equivalent to half a month’s salary for an average citizen of the GDR.
<https://youtu.be/78vWO2SCfEk>
⁉️The pricing put the brakes on the GDR government’s purported plans to use video games to eventually push communist messaging. Apparently, most of these consoles ended up in youth centers, shared by communities.⁉️
Production of the BSS 01 ended around two years after launch. Plans for a color model plans were reportedly shelved. The manufacturing facility went back to producing AV equipment — radio alarm clocks, says [Fern].
👾This wasn’t the end of the road for the communist nation’s video gaming ambitions, though. The GDR developed the Poly–Play arcade machine in the mid 80s with twice as many, more advanced, games onboard. For the clips shared, these look heavily influence by classics such as Pac-Man and Robotron.👾](https://files.mastodon.social/cache/media_attachments/files/116/188/690/021/155/901/original/cec22a9b62efc143.jpeg)
Next-gen Xbox “Project Helix” will play console and PC games
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Thanks god! I just bought a NS2!
#ns2 #NintendoSwitch2 #game #games #console #videogames #nerd #geek
Ecco chi sono le persone che ci stanno lavorando a #indieretrogames per semplice passione
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Se sei un programmatore di videogiochi per #console e #homecomputer leggendari, dicci cosa ne pensi e cosa miglioreresti.
PS6: lancio confermato nel 2027 nonostante i costi RAM
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https://www.ceotech.it/ps6-lancio-confermato-nel-2027-nonostante-i-costi-ram/
La Convergence Définitive
The Convergence Gambit
Die Grenzenlose Konsole
