• lime!@feddit.nuEnglish
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        12 days ago

        the proportions are off and the lines are crooked. there’s also the typical latent noise on places like the controller buttons.

        • ReallyActuallyFrankenstein@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
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          12 days ago

          Sorry, none of this is a clear indicator of AI. The “latent noise” you refer to is perfectly consistent with compression and resizing artifacting and noise. Proportions are often off when making “chibi” icon-sized consoles, but notably, they are consistently or coherently off. Other features are strongly suggestive it isn’t AI. For example:

          • All of the controllers have consistent layouts, including the correct number and orientation of buttons, player indicators, etc (e.g., the Wii controllers).
          • Consistent diagonal step effects, even if blurred from poor resizing (see the PS4).
          • Consistent text for all system indicators that is legible without AI artifacting, even if blurred from poor resizing.
          • The fact that the 360 and PS3 (didn’t notice initially) are not even pixel art suggests they just grabbed random icons from the web, not ran them through AI generators.
          • Tattorack@lemmy.worldEnglish
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            12 days ago

            Visual Capitalist says they make all their own graphics (so not just grabbed from the Web) from a “veriaty of tools from Adobe Creative Cloud”.

            Adobe has been making a huge push for so-called “AI tools” in their Creative Cloud service.

            • ReallyActuallyFrankenstein@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
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              12 days ago

              Ok - Yes, Adobe does have insidiously integrated AI tools. But again, nothing you point to here is strongly indicative of AI, and again, just consistent with sloppy & lazy resizing (which you could just as likely see pre-2020, before AI). Adobe also has a very extensive stock library which may be where these came from.

              There are some really hard to spot AI generated materials possible now, but the sloppy inconsistency here is - conversely - an indicator that they don’t care much what we do or don’t notice so wouldn’t be spending the time to generate something with all of the consistent details (see list above). Instead, the consistent details suggest human-created versions based on the real systems.

  • Pistcow@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    12 days ago

    The reason for the high sales of the PS2 was because it was a cheap DVD player at being nearly half the price of a stand alone DVD player.

    Funny by the time I worked at Target when they discontinued selling VHS and a customer was arguing with me about why did we stop selling VHS and I replied, “Dude, buy a DVD player, there’s one on that shelf for $35, its cheaper than a toaster now.” My manager standing next to me wasnt too happy but the customer reluctantly bought the cheap ass-DVD player.

    • Agrivar@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      12 days ago

      As someone who moved on from consoles between the Nintendo and the Super Nintendo, the PS2 is the only modern console I’ve ever owned, and it was 90% for the DVD player.

      • TacoSocks@infosec.pubEnglish
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        11 days ago

        The steam deck has unfortunately sold a tiny fraction of the sales of the consoles listed in the image. I can’t find any exact numbers but the steam deck has sold between 4 to 6 million units.

      • smeg@feddit.ukEnglish
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        12 days ago

        Wikipedia seems to think they are. I’ve seen “home consoles” used when you want to exclude handhelds, what makes you say that they’re technically not consoles?

  • Björn@swg-empire.deEnglish
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    12 days ago

    Strange, I distinctly remember it being a big deal that the Wii outsold the PS2 at some point.

  • davidgro@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    12 days ago

    Genuinely surprised that nothing old-school made the list: NES, SNES, Genesis, N64, A2600, etc.

    • Infrapink@thebrainbin.org
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      12 days ago

      The NES was the best selling of those, at ~60 million. The PS1 completely changed the curve.

      It’s funny. People remember the PS3 as a failure because it’s the worst-selling PlayStation, but it still crushed NES numbers

  • 𝕲𝖑𝖎𝖙𝖈𝖍🔻𝕯𝖃 (he/him)@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    11 days ago

    I’d be interested to see how sales of the steam deck compare. Sure, it’s a pc not a console, but the whole thing is to bring pc gaming to console gamers so I’m interested in the comparison.

    EDIT: based on a quick search, 4 million as of this time last year. I did not find anything more up to date than that. Looking that up made me realize that it would be nice if this chart had a date on it since two of the consoles in the chart are still in production.