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Message: [QUOTE="Android 18, post: 189405, member: 166776"] 'Retro' is largely defined by an aesthetic of consumption rather than an arbitrary time frame. Whether or not something is 'retro' tends to depend on availability, cultural memory and its representation in the public eye as being emblematic of a certain era, on top of a lot of the considerations made by brighter's very good post. The reason consoles like the PS3 additionally do not feel as retro as, say, the SNES or N64 is because of the relative stagnation of game production & the slowing of new franchises being added to the mix. The PS3 does not feel as old because many of us are either a) still playing the games directly on PS3 hardware or emulation, or b) we're in a game production environment globally comprised of few new chances and making large bets on additional entries or remakes/remasters for many of the same franchises that were dominant in the PS3 era and remain dominant today. [/QUOTE]

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