372: Things Are Degraded
Accidental Tech Podcast
Marco Arment
4.3 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 2 April 2020
⏱️ 140 minutes
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Summary
- Pre-show: Retro-gaming next week
- Homework for listeners: play with RetroPie and a retro gamepad
- Follow-up:
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Do people still buy Xbox's? Is this fight even still on? |
| 0:04.0 | Yeah, but all three competitors are viable. |
| 0:08.0 | You know, Sony destroyed everybody the last generation, but Xbox is viable. |
| 0:12.0 | They're having a money to make a second one, you know, but Nintendo, as we know, |
| 0:16.0 | definitely viable. So the market can sustain three. |
| 0:20.0 | Each generation may be the winnerable swap and Nintendo won the Wii generation. |
| 0:25.0 | Xbox won the PS3 generation. |
| 0:28.0 | See what happens this time. |
| 0:30.0 | Sega did not win. |
| 0:32.0 | There's one or anything, lately. |
| 0:34.0 | No, sorry. Sega won the Genesis generation and that was it. |
| 0:36.0 | No, it did not win the Genesis generation. Only in your mind. |
| 0:40.0 | No, I think it depends on how you measure, but it did very well. |
| 0:44.0 | Go look up the numbers. |
| 0:46.0 | It did fine. It was viable. |
| 0:48.0 | Viable. I think they were very, very successful during that generation. |
| 0:53.0 | Sega didn't win, but they were very, very strong. |
| 0:56.0 | But I still think Nintendo won. |
| 0:58.0 | They won. They won. Mark was hard. |
| 1:00.0 | They did win my heart. Damn it. Sega was awesome for that one generation. |
| 1:04.0 | I've said this many times on the show, I peddled so many Dreamcasts when I worked at Babages |
| 1:08.0 | and that just did not work out well. |
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