Okay here are the rules.

1) If you do not own it physically then do not purchase it. I will admit there are games that I will go out of my way to own like "Horizon Chase". But the flat-fact is that when I could just run a game on my Wii or Emulator and play online what is the point? The whole idea purchasing something that you do not own and is not really giving you any advantage of that purchase asides being a pacifier or even time-burner
has no logic. It is like beer but at least beer give me something in return....it makes use of my liver when I have to sit down and study.

Looking back at the PS3/360 era there are tons of titles to choose from that now could run clean on a well tuned PC via emulator. The sad part is the "ports" of many of these games do not do the originals justice. So now I have to why should I have a port of something only to find it was censored on the fly,
like some USSR era painting or photo but now this is digital in real time.

All the "cash-grabs" are for those parents ( that was like our parents ) who just wanted to buy a toy for their children to enjoy. In the real working world with money, many people do not even know what a
Videogame is outside of the words.

2) Is it worth the electrical costs. Like right now I have a 24W, 4 X9w, a 100W display, and maybe a fish tank taking 30W, and a couple of devices around 50W. You can to calculate your electrical costs. I could get the most powerful processor for my system that eats 100W or I could get one that is almost as powerful that only consumers 1/3 of that amount. With videogames your not counting PC/Labtop + GPU + Display + lighting. Your only counting Console + DIsplay/TV + Lighting.

The only benifit of owning a new game console nowadays is that if you are a five-year old kid, You remember being five-years-old? My understanding the original programmer of "Star Ocean" was around eight or twelve when he was programming videogames, being the youngest of the group. What were you doing?

3) Right now some Hong Kong based company is making a portable Game-Gear looking tv-toy that essentially is a Windows desktop. I would rather own that then some "Atheist" driven Linux device
any day of the week. It is portable and could run on a display like an original PSP. Why isn't anybody in the US, Canada making a portable console. All we need is a SIM-card slot and we would be good to go.

4) These are your choices in comparison to yesterday

Before Now

NES Switch/Wii
PSX PC
Gameboy Android

Once you have that understanding then everything should be clear on what console to purchase, because by all acounts it will be on the PC or Android in the near future.

5) Wait it out. Lets be fair. When Zelda 64 was released. People brought the N64 and game brand-new.
Then traded it in for a Sony or Dreamcast. If you look at releases from the time they were released and
"actually had a life" you could just ignore these releases and focus on something else.

Your not a crack-cocaine addict. Your not a small child crying for the bottle or pacifier. You are not a
teenager who has to walk outside of their nice big comfy house, with a yard, roof, basement, garage, and go smoking in the stairwell across from a family that just brought home their newborn child. Only
to be escorted, out of the building by the police, and keep lying about smoking to your family who clearly
smells it on your breath, clothing, and belongings.

I could wait it out. I know that game will be ported.


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About "Digital Devil" series. lets be frank. It ended with a bad-end the original book, gave us the horny
teacher from the animation. Every reincarnation of it was literally an extension to keep people playing
the videogame. I honestly would go back the NES game and play every related game before moving on to whichever incarnation that is being released.

About Persona. If you have not noticed it, most of these games are literally repeating the last game.
Only benifit is seeing guest characters from other games, etc. I know we all want "Breath Of Fire III" to make a comeback but Persona in my opinion just got less and less expressive and more about the limitations of console it was released on.

It is about demonic possession, which clearly is the theme of the "Digital Devil" series.

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About content, saved games, and so forth. IMOpinion if I was able to physical back it up I would, and reload it on to another console or emulator. I honestly do not believe a system that is unable to hold any universal respect ( cross-platform information ) should be a console to invest in if your unable to use the same saves.

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Imagine that game console that is only DLC in the dumpster a couple of years from now. What will it be used for then? I will tell you. A modder is going to install a new firm-ware, bios and just run games from
USB or SSD they downloaded somewhere. That is the future of a DLC only device.