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Patreon at patreon dot com slash retronauts and I'll let you get to this free preview of one of our exclusive episodes. The Just to go over the state of consoles in 2004, so put it very simply we are reaching the end of this generation of consoles

PS2 is dominating with its G.T.A. Stranglehold on the marketplace. Also the free DVD

players nice as well. We've covered that over and over again. It's still the

highest selling console of all time, although if Nintendo

doesn't develop a new switch, switch will probably lap it in a few years. It looks likely.

I can have sworn that we, that's amazing, I didn't know it was still number one yes

still number one I think it's because a lot of us had to buy multiple of them because

the first models are very very bad yeah you're not wrong I would think I went

through three of them myself.

Is the only console I've ever gone through more than one of? I think I had to do three as well.

So Xbox, Dist and Second, Game Cube, right behind it. Nintendo is announcing the Revolution console in advance of

E3 2004 so they're already letting you know like we're sorry we're gonna give

you something better next time and like I said we are this is a fairly short console cycle they

were they were pretty short around this time the next one would be much

longer but we're going to be getting ready for new launches in 2005 and 2006 right around the corner. And then we have some notable

launches for 2004, we could talk about these. So new portables have arrived. We have the

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