Jaxseven @ Jaxseven @beehaw.org

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Did you know you could make a dock to hook up the Vita to a TV? I tried it and it's pretty impressive. Really shows you what life would be like in an alternate timeline where Sony actually knew how to market the Vita.

I'm happy to see Sony bring PS3 games to PS5, though it's not how I would've wanted. You'll have some of Sony's best PS3 games for sure, but for those games like Folklore you'll need a PS3 (or Steam Deck, I haven't tried emulating my copy yet). I also don't like paying a subscription service to play the games that are already sitting on my shelf, but I'm the minority here as a lot of people I talk to like NSO and PS+.

I have hear not great things about the ROG Ally and its support from Asus. From my experience, the Steam Deck truly is the most pick up and play solution for PC gaming. Add in the best input options of any console (people complain about the trackpads making the Deck too big, but those people clearly haven't used them) and I think it beats out a gaming laptop as a gaming device. If you're proficient at minor disassembly and formatting an internal drive, you can pick up the base Steam Deck for $399 and then buy a 1TB-2TB drive for less than what the 512GB model would cost. Alternatively you can buy a 1TB if you don't want to open the device up.

Me personally, my go-to console at this point is the Steam Deck for its sheer versatility. I've got a dock with an 8Bitdo Ultimate Pro connected so it's more or less plug and play. Since building my first PC in high school, I have a huge Steam library. EmuDeck is also amazing so with the exception of a Series X somehow running emulators, the Steam Deck is the best console for emulation.

I've had an Xbox One S as my 4K blu-ray player and have been digging the backwards compatibility, though there's not enough OG Xbox support. I'm more than likely going to mod an OG Xbox with the Stellar chip/HD mod. I've considered a Series X, but unless it can replace my Nvidia Shield TV as an entertainment box, I'll probably stick to my Onse S. I've also considered a PS5, but their games are coming to PC, albeit delayed, so I don't really feel the need to pick one up.

The PS3 is a special beast as those games are seemingly trapped on the console unless ported (RIP Beenox Spider-Man games). When modded you have the ability to software emulate PS2 games (not as good at the launch PS3 but those things won't last), but for me my TV still has a component connection so my cheat is having a PS2.

Nintendo has one of the most beloved library of games, but the Switch does not support much of said library unfortunately. The Wii U on the other hand had better compatibility especially if you modded in GameCube support which runs natively on the console.

I use Posteo myself. Similar to Mailbox, $1 a month and I haven't had any issues.