The controller has 3 hours of battery life and the joystick drifts by default out of the box now.

It's 2029. My Gamecube, Dreamcast, and PS2 still work just fine, thank you.

You have 4 in your library, but only 1 is installed; it's Call of Duty. Since there's no need for physical media anymore, the footprint of games has ballooned to the point where if you want to install CoD, it's going to cost you 2TB of storage. They threw in 8k textures just for the 0.0001% of players that actually have an 8k TV, and there are a lot of textures since the Big Chungus update which introduced 255 different coloured Chungus textures for every weapon and weapon attachment combination in the game.

Don't forget that you paid a %50 deposit to reserve/pre-register your "copy" of a digital game

$80 is 2026 prices. It is going to be $100 at least.

Your PSN account was banned because of your social network comments and you lost all of your games.

A storm knocked out Internet, so now you can't play any games due to Always-on DRM.

You try to watch a movie you physically own, but you didn't buy the $350 optical addon to the digital-only version of the console.

Solution: Don't buy a PS6. Fuck Sony.

The future of gaming is budget pc builds and piracy.

Can't wait for the servers to crash cuz everyone tries downloading their copy of the game at the same time lol

Perhaps if people stopped buying those shitty anti-consumer consoles, but people never change, and after all, "iTs jUsT A GAme bRo ahaha" - player that bought fifa every year for the full price

It's 2060

All consoles are digital-only, legally-required to verify your identity, and locked-down

But Linux still exists! In adapting, it's now hyper-optimized for thin-client corporate workstation terminals, the only computers still made. Distributions are shared via illegal mesh networks or person-to-person on physical media

Gamers can simulate operating a "grocery store", something that used to exist back before the States collapsed

Or, you could take control of your life back from the corpos by any means necessary.

They each cost $80. Yeah you wish they were so cheap...

If PS goes all digital and Xbox follows with their closed ecosystem, $100 is the minimum they will charge.

I think this is a bit optimistic, no way they won't invent some new way to monetise it even more by 2029

Don't forget fucking Secure Boot! Locked me out of one of my favorite games, Battlefield 1, all in the name of "anti-cheat"!

Fuck that noise

I'm kinda old and have had a couple of Nintendos but never anything PS or Xbox. I've been a PC gamer since PC games existed.

Second-hand games for older consoles exist...

let them crash and burn.