section request No dedicated PS1 or PS2 section? Or the N64? Or the XBOX?

[RetroSonicHero]

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

[Punisher5.0]

We have dedicated "official" threads for most of those systems and its worked fine for years. 

[Atariboy]

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.

[jeremiahjt]

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.

[Reaperman]

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

[Tanooki]

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.