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For those who have been fortunate sufficient to have lived by way of the seventh console technology as a younger grownup with sufficient disposable revenue to purchase a few video games per thirty days, you ate rattling properly. You in all probability have numerous fond reminiscences of every large new watercooler sport that the studios of the day have been firing out with alarming regularity, and also you had no thought what the hell “video games as a service” meant. Bliss.
What wasn’t blissful, although, was how unreliable the machines have been. The Xbox 360 in fact was blighted by the Pink Ring of Demise scandal, an unlimited and costly tech design and shopper rights blunder that value Microsoft billions to place proper. The PS3 equally had the Yellow Gentle of Demise, which wasn’t as dangerous or as widespread as Microsoft’s subject, however nonetheless affected lots of people and is just about a assured certainty for those who’re nonetheless fortunate sufficient to have a working PS3 Fats: clear that factor religiously and alter the thermal paste. Truthfully. Do it. It’ll die finally no matter you do, however do not tempt destiny.
Not that the seventh gen was the one period with widespread tech points. Each technology of video games machine has had some type of widespread drawback or a number of, normally precipitated or exacerbated by extreme warmth, and due to this fact usually related to video games that drive the {hardware} notably arduous. So which of those system-busting video games is one of the best one? Nicely, that is what we’re right here to resolve on this panel present, that includes Jim Trinca as your host, Tom Orry and Sherif Saed as your common panellists, and Ian Higton from Eurogamer as a Particular Visitor (he is my favorite, very good-looking, does not scent normally).
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