They'll bite the bullet... of us having to overpay for these devices. This isn't hardware they can sit on too long, and even if normally it could've been possible to sit down with AMD and maybe figure something out right now there's just nothing to figure out if there's nothing to sell.

I'm guessing once it becomes clear Q3 2026 isn't getting any better (the Nvidia guess for the Supers or thereabouts) is when we're getting dates and pricing - at the latest. The growing GPU shortage is perhaps the flipside to this coin, but relying on that too much positions the hardware explicitly as the "less bad" option rather than a "cool affordable device" that perhaps gives this legs rather than a temporary boost to sales While There's Few Other Options Out There.

Maybe. We'll see.

From my point of view... I'm into the controller, and hopefully there's no RAM in there, I'm not in the market for the Steam Machine, and if the Frame isn't a good value I'll just continue skipping VR altogether.

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Film preservation has Robert A. Harris, and us lucky folks have lordquacksmith.

Thank you, lordquacksmith.

No, really, this is great.

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Quoting: ArehandoroIf we're too late to say "Happy New year" to friends we see for the first time in 2026, we are too late to say "Early 2026" for this as well. Or maybe May counts as early as it's in the first half of the year? Do they mean early financial year?

P.S: I'd like the devices out now, please.

Chinese New Year? That way even March is passable.

Or, it might just be a shareholder nod. "AMD has fulfilled its commitments blah blah."

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The Pocketstation was available only in Japan, but I think they just cancelled other regions too late for FF8 to cut support out.

Regarding the prices what you're describing just isn't the current market, no matter what those exceptional individuals trying to peddle very common games for stupid prices might tell you. If you're impatient it's 40-ish or maybe 50-ish for NTSC right now, for a mint copy, half that or lower for PAL, dirt cheap for non-English at that - ebay/auction site prices. There's a Canadian listing for ~10USD buy now, no takers.

These are out of print goods, but not difficult or that costly to get. It's just that usual rules for buying old games apply, some patience is required, and people will try to sell you stuff for exorbitant amounts so don't just grab the first thing you see. Also: better prices outside of ebay. Same goes for the Pocketstation, just grabbed one recently for ~$30 and left those $250 listings alone for the youtubers.

All that said, the argument wasn't price or retail availability, it was which version to choose. If you can't afford, say, $40, a PSX and some hunting for a fancy Japanese memory card - that is why I say play emulated. Don't even launch that Square port, either one, it's not a good way to experience the game. Buy it if you want to be legit, for the lowest price you can manage. For the "effort" Square put into these paying any price means getting ripped off.

I'm playing FF8 off the discs on the PSX right now and can't complain about the load times, they're fine. If your sole criterium is no load times, but a terrible upscale job is perfectly acceptable then... you do you.

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Civ7 pre-production is going quite well, looks like.

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Quoting: Arehandoro

Quoting: suchHardware will be the least of our concerns when this bubble bursts.

As long as I can get shelled roasted sunflower seeds to sit on a bench and look at rich people jump from big buildings, I'll be alright.

I'm afraid it's not the rich who will be jumping at that stage.

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I think FF8R is the one version not to get out of the two - it looks atrocious, and it still has the same technical limitations the previous version had.

So, I maintain that if we're talking compromise (given we're discussing the PC ports, and modern FF8 ports in general) the emulated PSX version is the single best, easiest to obtain, set up and engage with... compromise. Popular games as well, so you can snag those discs easy off ebay. No Pocketstation support in software emulation AFAIK, but that's truly nothing to write home about - I own a couple, I know - and statistically not something someone interested in getting into FF8 in 2026 would be into, certainly not over the rest of the game not being... a sub-par, unresponsive experience relative to the smoothness you get on the PSX, emulated or otherwise.

Now, if we're not talking compromise there's the original hardware route or FPGA, which has the benefit of not requiring a scaler for HDMI output. Pocketstation support included.

I can't for the life of me decipher what you meant by the reading Japanese snarkiness, though :)

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Hardware will be the least of our concerns when this bubble bursts.

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Quoting: kaktuspalme

Quoting: Durandal... and the current version being delisted, as usual. A bit of burying the lede there.

Though I personally get it, VIII for example, there's the Remastered and just VIII, which one should I choose?

Neither. Emulate the PSX version. You'll have all the QOL you'll ever want, the game will look much better, and you won't be tied to any online account.

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Looks like new distro origin story.

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