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Accidental Tech Podcast

Marco Arment

Technology

4.3 • 2.5K Ratings

🗓️ 28 February 2013

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

The PS4 announcement, the Xbox 1, old LAN gaming, Transport Tycoon, early CD-ROM adventure games, dumping old games onto iOS, dial-up modems, and the annoyance of gaming occasionally on a modern console.

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0:00.9	So I have a wildly unrelated question for Mr. Syracusa.
0:06.4	What the hell happened with this PlayStation 4 thing?
0:09.1	Because I don't really follow video games at all,
0:11.5	but oh my god, the internet's went crazy over that...
0:14.5	I guess it was like a...
0:15.5	You didn't go that crazy.
0:16.7	No, they went fairly crazy.
0:18.0	I don't understand why everyone is all cranky.
0:19.8	I think everyone's mind was blown about how little their mind was blown
0:23.1	over the course of two hours.
0:23.8	I think that is exactly right.
0:25.8	I don't get it at all because...
0:28.4	Like, they do this with every new console.
0:32.4	And maybe people are getting more and more worked up about it,
0:34.8	but they always do something like this.
0:36.0	Like, they always dole out the information.
0:38.0	Like Nintendo is the king of this.
0:39.4	They remember with the Wii, they were like,
0:42.1	we have a new console coming, and it's called the Revolution.
0:46.1	And they had to press conference about that,
0:47.6	but it told you nothing.
0:48.4	And then at another time, they said,
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