There’s no hard and fast rule that says how old a console needs to be for it and it’s games to be considered retro.

There are a lot of people that say that anything from two generations ago is retro. That would put the PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and the Wii in the retro camp.

Do you think the PS3 generation is retro or if not what consoles do you consider to be retro systems?

  • snooggums@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    When people think of “retro” as pre-3D stuff they don’t realize they’re talking about maybe 20 years in commercial gaming history. Counterstrike has been online longer than all generations of 2D home consoles.

    I read this as 3D being the last 20 years, but I assume from your response you meant there was only 20 years of gaming before 3D came into the picture?

    • MudMan@kbin.social
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      1 year ago

      Gotcha. Yes, that’s what I meant.

      20 years is generous, actually. You have to go to very early gaming to get into the 70s and include all the Pong-likes. If you go by programmable home consoles and start with the 2600, that’s only 18 years between its 1977 launch and the PS1’s 1995 release.