RetroSonicHero Posted Thursday at 08:53 PM Share Posted Thursday at 08:53 PM (edited) I find it a bit odd that we have a DREAMCAST section for the Classic Consoles Forum, but not a Playstation 1, 2, N64, or hell even the Saturn while we're at it. And especially the XBOX, as well. I can understand the concern of clutter with the sections, that's completely understandable. I'm mostly just curious why these dedicated console sections don't exist for, at the very least, the PS1 and PS2 since those are two of the highest selling consoles of all time with massive fanbases and owners. An original XBOX section would be great as well, given the big homebrew scene and whatnot. I don't know, maybe I'm off-base for asking about this. Sorry if I am; I don't want to cause trouble or anything. Edited Thursday at 09:01 PM by RetroSonicHero Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Punisher5.0 Posted Friday at 12:09 AM Share Posted Friday at 12:09 AM We have dedicated "official" threads for most of those systems and its worked fine for years. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atariboy Posted Friday at 01:27 AM Share Posted Friday at 01:27 AM While I take no fault with what you're asking, I don't understand why people ask for this. By my count we're at 75 forums with almost the same number of sub-forums. Where do all of you find the time to even pay half attention to more than a handful of these? And you want it divided up even more? I can't keep up with more than a handful of these on a daily basis since it's so spread out already. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jeremiahjt Posted Friday at 05:22 AM Share Posted Friday at 05:22 AM The PlayStation, PlayStation 2, and Nintendo 64 have got to have some other forums somewhere for people to discuss. Those systems were and are extremely popular. The Saturn has a forum over a Sega-16. Now, for Xbox, I am not sure. That one does not seem as popular today as the other ones. All that being said, this is ATARIAge. If we have a forum for every system Nintendo makes, might we one day become a Nintendo forum? I sure hope not. I would be in favor of an Emerson Arcadia-2001 forum or an RCA Studio II forum before any of those. Systems that were contemporaries with Atari systems make more sense to have spaces here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reaperman Posted Friday at 11:06 PM Share Posted Friday at 11:06 PM (edited) The more dedicated forums we get, the harder it is to keep up on all of it. Since 'the great forum ballooning,' I've had to start subscribing to 'new homebrew' youtube channels since I was missing out on too many here, and not finding out of them until it was way too late to get in on it. Edited Friday at 11:14 PM by Reaperman 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tanooki Posted yesterday at 02:47 AM Share Posted yesterday at 02:47 AM If it were my call, and it is not, I'd have just made official sections for each hardware maker who either was a key player and is dead or still ticking, and if they had a substantial handheld base/line I'd throw it a subforum off that section maybe. If a split existed only really Nintendo and Sony would have enough chance, largely just Nintendo to earn a dedicated handheld section. Realistically it probably would just make more sense to have a section per hardware maker and it gets everything rolled into it, end of story. That would leave the smallest footprint with ease of finding what you want. Nintendo, Sega, Atari, Sony, NEC(TG/PCE), SNK(NeoGeo/PocketColor), and so on...then a general one after for the one offs and older stuff that didn't last long like Colecovision, Vectrex, Int, etc. What tends to work best for the lazy browser is having to hit the least places in the fastest time to get what they wand and onto the next. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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