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I am personally offended that the XBOX360 is apparently considered retro now (lemmy.world)

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I went to a Gamestop the other day, and they had a little section for pre-owned games for older systems (think Xbox360, PS2, DS, etc). I was perusing and grabbed some games, but I noticed something, the cases that have the XBOX360 games have a giant "RETRO GAMING" on it in the centre. So I am like wtf, I grew up with the XBOX360, what the hell do they mean "retro".

So I went and asked like friends and other people if the XBOX360 is retro now, and basically everyone was like "yeah". I was talking to my EX about it and she was like "the xbox came out in 2005/6. There is more time between us and the xbox360 than there was between the xbox and the SNES when the xbox came out. Was the SNES "retro" when the xbox360 came out?"

I am like not ready, not willing to accept the XBOX360 as retro. Because that is saying my thing that I grew up with is "retro" or "old" now and im not ready to accept that because im not ready to be old.

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[–] Eeyore_Syndrome@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

And it never got cool super-computer action like N64 from 2015 Fantastic Four even.....lol.

[–] pulsewidth@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

That's OK, the Xbox 360 was heavily featured in Grandma's Boy, which is a much better deal.

[–] Cephiroth@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (2 children)

This hurts me. I have vivid memories of playing Halo 3 and Hexic back when I was in middle school.

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[–] ryathal@sh.itjust.works 0 points 23 hours ago

I think using emulation as the benchmark for what makes a console retro can be a useful rule of thumb. By that metric I don't think the 360 is retro yet as emulation isn't quite mainstream or functional for the majority of titles. It's probably getting close though.

[–] weirdo_from_space@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 day ago

360 is AAA slop, I refuse to recognize that thing as retro.

[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (14 children)

I would say "no" because the 360 did have the capability of 720p and 1080p. There isn't much you have to do to get it working with a modern television.

That's not the case with a TRULY retro console, either in terms of resolution or connectivity.

[–] WalrusDragonOnABike@reddthat.com 2 points 1 day ago

Another way to differentiate would be things like rendering technology. While raytracing is starting to be partially utilized a little bit, I'd hardly say it's taken over yet, so there's not much technological difference between a 360 and a PS5. Mostly boils down to more cores and faster with some minor extra features. Far more difference between even the SNES and the N64 than between the PS1 and the PS5 imo.

You could also use Internet access as a determinant, but then even snes and Sega Genesis wouldn't be retro (at least in Japan).

Could just define retros as anything that fits at least one or 2 of those 4 characteristics of retro video game consoles, but the xbox360 is pretty much modern by all of them.

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[–] Strawberry@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

If it can be emulated on a steam deck, it's retro

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