Why Is It Beneficial to Be 10 Years Ahead in Gaming? After all, you should be trying to play smarter rather than harder.
The year is 2011, and Bethesda has published Skyrim, Nintendo has launched two Zelda titles, and Valve has released Portal 2. Overall, it was a terrific year for gaming. Now, in 2021, pretending to be in 2011 is not only a great way to forget about this really terrible year, but it's also a clever gaming tactic.
What I'm suggesting is that you ignore most new games and consoles and instead invest your time and money in previous-generation devices. PS3, PS4, Xbox 360, Xbox One, Wii, and Wii U (yes, really); all of these platforms have amazing game libraries and could give just as much, if not more, delight and amusement than today's games.
You will save a significant amount of money.
To play the latest consoles, you must, of course, have one of the latest consoles. The PS5 and Xbox Series X/S are famously tough to find; even if you casually browse a department store's electronics section on and off, you'll almost certainly never discover one in stock. Instead, you should use monitoring sites to be notified of new bargains, or phone around to check if any physical and mortar businesses have the units in stock.
Sony even has a system in place that allows you to sign up for the chance to purchase a PS5 within a specified time period (imagine that, the privilege to buy a product). Even Nintendo Switches are getting increasingly scarce. However, once you discover one of these consoles, you must pay full, current-gen prices.
Consider investing in, say, a PS3. You can get one of these vintage systems for a fraction of the price of a PS5, or even a PS4 (the latter is, surprisingly, very expensive to find online). You could even know someone who no longer uses theirs. That's a significant advantage of outdated gaming technology; after a generation or two, many consumers let such consoles collect dust in their basement. Perhaps they'd sell it to you at a reasonable price, or perhaps they'd let you borrow it for free.
Let's keep the thought experiment going and move on to gaming. While new, unopened PS3 games are considered collectors items and are expensive, secondhand games are dirt cheap. You can play The Last of Us for $10, Dark Souls for $9, and Uncharted 2 for $5. On eBay, a sealed copy of GTA V on the PS3 costs just $20.
When you buy games on current platforms, you usually pay a lot of money. Sure, there are bargains and discounts (particularly on Steam), but brand new, AAA games frequently fetch $60–70, even after the game has been available for a while. Nintendo, for example, seldom lowers the price of their mainstays; although Breath of the Wild is presently on sale through Amazon, Super Mario Odyssey is still $50, and Mario Kart 8 Deluxe is still $60.
You can learn from history.
Because contemporary gaming is so expensive, many of us rely on reviews to help us decide what to buy. Of course, pre-orders and early access ensure that we invest in a game before we know if it's worth our time and money.
When you're a generation or two removed, you don't have that difficulty. The games published for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 (or the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One) have been played, reviewed, and replayed several times. A simple search will provide best-of collections, which is a good location to begin your trip. While these lists are not exhaustive, they may be a great place to start when looking for the top games for your Wii U or getting started with collecting for your Xbox 360.
Sometimes games that were missed when they were first released earn a following and respect over time; other times, games that were hailed don't age well and may not be the greatest location for you to start or invest your money. Coming in late allows you to let these possibilities play out, giving you the best of all worlds.
The games that are available today will always be available.
I enjoy saving money and getting fantastic historical advise on what to play first, but most of all, it's reassuring to know that these games will still be available when I eventually get around to playing them. There's no reason to go out and get a PS5 right now; I haven't even finished all of my PS4 games!
I'm not suggesting you should wait ten years to try out the PS5; even one generation removed may make the system, games, or the overall bundle considerably more reasonable. Of course, some of us will always want to be at the cutting edge of what gaming has to offer, which is just great! However, for those of us who have a massive backlog of old games we haven't even begun, it's absolutely appropriate, in my opinion, to choose to live in the past.
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SOURCE: lifehacker
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