Nintendo Switch

[emjay]

Yeah, I'm a 90s child too so my heyday was the SNES, Megadrive, and Mega CD.... and at a pinch, the Master System. Good times... Streets of Rage 2... best game ever

In theory I'd love a PS4 but I have a problem with RSI and its controllers set me off big time... I can't use them for more than a few minutes with it putting me into absolute agony But it doesn't happen at all with the N64 controllers... which are much more ergonomic. I could probably get third-party controller but it's very hard finding stuff that doesn't set off RSI... pretty much trial and error... so it could be an expensive process, with no guarantee of success but in principle a PS4 appeals to me much more than Nintendo, after they went the Wii route... I just want a console with control pads like the good old days, not all this physical movement stuff... it's fine if you've got a big living room, but not so great if you don't as far as I know; but I could very well be wrong since I'm so long out of the loop, PlayStations are just simple but powerful consoles of the traditional type... ie they don't have Wii-like controllers or xbox movement sensors?

Sorry you have rsi. When I used to play  a lot more, I was probably lucky to not get that. I have had my hands barely able to hold the controller before.
You're pretty much right that playsatations are simple but powerful. Although there is Playstation VR. They seem to always be just a little ahead of their competitors when it comes to graphics. Except if you compare Vita to Switch. But Switch is new and Vita is old. If you compare Vita to 3DS, which came out at the same time, Vita has near HD graphics whereas 3DS is something like 460x320 IIRC

Thanks But I'm used to it... and it hasn't been majorly set off in a while... but once you've got the propensity for it, there's always the potential for it to be set off and then require weeks/months of recovery time... so in other words, once it's happened once you've got it for life, at least potentially... I lost a job because of it, even after ages without it being set off... within two weeks at the job I was in agony. It's related to nerves and causes hypersensitivity so at its worst I was in absolute agony and the only way I could be even slightly comfortable was to stand, naked; I couldn't lie down, sit down, or have anything against my skin... but thankfully that hasn't happened for a long time. For me, what set it off originally was playing Civ2... so it was a mouse rather than a control pad that did it... I just felt a twinge in my arm and that was that. So my advice to you is take it seriously... it's real... and it's incapacitating... so don't get it... and thank god you didn't if you did play so much. If you get that strange twinge in your arm you've got to stop doing whatever you're doing right then.. even saving or whatever might be too much... you just gotta back away from the computer... if I had done that, rather than a few more turns, I might've prevented it turning into a full blown incapacitating experience lasting months and requiring shitloads of physiotherapy... that's something I've learnt going forward... to recognise that twinge and stop instantly to save myself a world of pain. Er anyway, sorry about going off on a tangent like that

Yeah... part of the reason I don't play consoles these days is because of this RSI but occasionally I'll bring out the N64 and it causes me no problems. As to these new ones, I basically have three very simple - and probably wrong - associations about them; xbox... PC in a pretty box , Nintendo... active Wii type stuff, and PlayStation... raw power and fast graphics... so what you say fits in with how I picture it

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Anyway, I need to go to bed... it's been nice chatting with you guys goodnight