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>/vr/ was created in 2014
>15 years old Dreamcast was considered a retro console at the time
>Xbox 360 is 15 years old now

How is it not retro?

>> No.6608938
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6608938

>implying it’s not retro
The sticky is intended to be a suggestion, not a hard rule.

>> No.6608953

>>6608938
Allowing Dreamcast into /vr/ was dumb as fuck even in 2014, you either consider all 6th gen retro or none of it

>> No.6608954

You're right, Dreamcast isn't retro.

>> No.6608965

>>6608954
so basically jannies are fags who like being arbitrary, whoda thunk it.

>> No.6608969
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6608969

*ahem*

>> No.6608975

>>6608934
xbox will never be retro because its a shit console

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>>6608975
>implying that’s stopped them before

>> No.6608982

>>6608934
This isn't even close to being retro.

>> No.6608983

>>6608938
But OP's console is 7th gen

>> No.6608985

>>6608975
Its 32 bits. Only a matter of time nintoddler.

>> No.6608992

>>6608938
>>6608969
>tick tock
>implying any of us will see old age
We've lived our best years, you kiddies are gonna have fun going through the hellscape that will be the world in the next decade or so.

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>>6608934
What qualifys for that all I can give you is this fuckker

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/vr/ mods need to actually say something about whether the sticky is going to be updated for 9th gen console launch.

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>>6609006
/vr/ mods need to prune any thread that isn’t about Bernie Stolar

>> No.6609027

>>6608934
>>/vr/ was created in 2014
that's wrong retard

>> No.6609032

>>6609006
No they really don't.

>> No.6609035

>>6609032
yeah they do, otherwise we'll keep getting those stupid "How do I play retro games on my PS2" threads

>> No.6609041

>>6609035
What's so wrong about emulation threads on newer consoles?

>> No.6609043

>>6609027
Correct. It came out when they brought /r9k/ and /hc/ back to compete with reddit.

>> No.6609045

>>6609041
they don't actually care about playing retro games on PS2, they just hope it turns into a stealth-ps2 thread

>> No.6609047

>>6609041
Uh-oh....

Did someone say EMULATION

>> No.6609049

>>6609045
why does that bother you so much? 6th gen was 20(!) years ago. That's like claiming Atari wasn't retro in 1997.

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>>6609049
I don't have an issue with PS2 being retro, I just want the mods to actually state their stance on the matter instead of having people try to weave through the gaps

>> No.6609068

hiro=hero
mods=gods
based jannies

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woman=mods
cookie=users
dog=gen 6

>> No.6609083

>>6608934
Ban 5th Gen , problem solved.

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These shitty threads never end, but might as well give my two cents.
Retro refers to an aesthetic of a certain time period. In 50 years, retro cars will still be cars with certain design aspects in them that were common at the time. This is because we, in the current time, have set a standard for retro cars. Same thing with retro diners, the aesthetic will be the same regardless of how much time passes.
Retro video games will remain with the time period of 1999 and before simply because that is where video games shared the most in common with each other aesthetically, and simply because the medium has not been around relatively long as say, literature or film. You do not hear people refer to 80s or 90s films as retro because when films first came out, they had an aesthetic that stood out from their successors. As soon as film advanced in how they were created, the idea of the retro film was established because of the advancement of film. There may be different tropes in terms of say, writing, from 70s and 2010 films, but they still differ far too much from the previously established tag of "retro" given to films of the previous era. This applies to video games as well, arguably after 1999 is when technology began advancing the most in such a manner that affected the aesthetic of video games.
TL;DR: 6th gen has more in common with its successors than its predecessors because it is arguably where technological advancements has affected vidya to the point of aesthetic changes not present in previous generations.