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Costco Canada Dumping PS Classic for $30
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DeepEnigma
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I mentioned earlier, the PS2 Slims were $99 back in the day. They should just rerelease them and then you have PS1 and PS2 support. It's small enough too.
BusierDonkey
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What a disaster. This thing was almost impossible to fuck up, the PS1 library was a pot of gold, but they decided to replace the gold with pieces of foil wrapped shit.
The shell is well made, and the controllers are cheaper versions of the original, but work fine. At $30 you could buy this, gut it, and build a better version for less than the original asking price.
The shell is well made, and the controllers are cheaper versions of the original, but work fine. At $30 you could buy this, gut it, and build a better version for less than the original asking price.
spookyfish
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Ah. I understand.
StreetsofBeige
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Amazing how gens before always had systems being dumped off at $99 or less. I remember seeing PS2 slims for $79 Cdn. Now $199 is probably as low as it goes. And that's on sale.
Rest
All these years later I still chuckle at what a fucking moron that guy is.
The Unions kept Walmart out of New York City. Sacramento used to be the same.
BusierDonkey
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CDN dollar is worth less than the US dollar everywhere, often less than half the value. Have a look. I wish it weren't the case, as I live here and get paid in Loonies.
Pallas
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It's a better idea but I'm guessing Sony saw how many of these classic mini consoles were selling and wanted a piece of it.
StreetsofBeige
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Yikes.
People shit on Wally, but I have no problem with them. Low prices and a wide selection of everyday goods at good return policies.
DeepEnigma
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Well that's obvious. PlayStation fans were asking for it as well for quite a while, they just screwed up by possibly having the European team handle the software side with the PAL versions.
I'll still pick one up for novelty to sit on the shelf along with the two Nintendo ones I have if I'm ever in a store and see if for $25 like they're dropping to.
Pallas
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May get one too if I see it a little cheaper, I wouldn't play it though.
BusierDonkey
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It depends where you're located. In parts of the US Wal-Marts are viewed as "trashy" and Targets are a more respected place to shop. In Canada it's the opposite from my own experience. Wal-Marts are generally cleaner and more spacious than their competition here. I worked for them for 11 years and have nothing but fond memories. They paid well especially for the effort required and they treated us all really well. Target tried to get a foothold up in Canada and failed miserably as they looked like Canadian Wal-Marts used to decades ago, with terrible pricing policies and dated merchandising practices.
StreetsofBeige
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As long as someone can get passed the odd NTSC/PAL issues, it's likely a decent buy at $30 cdn. People complain about the games, but looking at the list it's a pretty good list in my books.
People got to remember, Sony probably has (had) a PS Classic 2 they would sell years from now hoping gamers would buy another one. Just look at all the Sega Genesis compilation mini-consoles in the past 10 years. And Sega is releasing another one later this year.
People got to remember, Sony probably has (had) a PS Classic 2 they would sell years from now hoping gamers would buy another one. Just look at all the Sega Genesis compilation mini-consoles in the past 10 years. And Sega is releasing another one later this year.
StreetsofBeige
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I'm in Canada. Walmarts here are fine. Living in the Toronto GTA, the only one I've been in that was kind of dumpy was one at I think Keele/Lawrence.... (somewhere around there). But maybe they fixed it up by now.
I've been to Wally's in the US. Some are fine..... Some are ghetto.
Targets failed here for a number of reasons. There's prices were fine despite what people thought. Problem was logistics, and most of their stuff was similar to other Canadian stores. Canadians gave Target Canada unrealistic goals like assuming we'd get all the cool stuff you'd see at a Target in Buffalo.
Canadian stores NEVER EVER will get the selection US stores get, but some reason people held Target to higher standards. Yet nobody has ever knocked Walmart, Costco, Home Depot or Lowes for having prodyct selection at half what the US gets. But Target Canada was held to a stupid expectation of better, cooler stuff at rock bottom Walmart prices.
The stores were all new and looked fantastic. Every one I went to had Starbucks in them too.
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DiscoJer
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They treat their employees like crap
Source: Am Walmart employee. From what I here, Target isn't much better, but they at least pay more.
Grinchy
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Maybe that explains why everyone who works there does their job so horribly. Or it's a chicken/egg scenario.
DeepEnigma
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It always starts at the top. Most won't like to admit that, or get too big to even care.
You can impact your employment culture if you really wanted to put forth the effort, no matter how big or small.
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TacosNSalsa
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...for people you don't like and got for secret Santa .
Honestly if it ever gets to the $20 mark I'd buy one just for decoration
ThatStupidLion
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at 30$ is it even worth purchasing as an emulator machine?
i read that the default psx emu is janky, but will that effect how it handles others?
can the default psx one be improved through at home tinkering?
i tried a rasp pi, but there was too much lag and customization required for my liking once the emus were installed.
i read that the default psx emu is janky, but will that effect how it handles others?
can the default psx one be improved through at home tinkering?
i tried a rasp pi, but there was too much lag and customization required for my liking once the emus were installed.
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All these years later I still chuckle at what a fucking moron that guy is.
I don't think people understand just how bad Walmart jobs are. That, and a Walmart landing in your town kills mom and pop businesses nearby. They destroy livelihoods and replace them with jobs that force people onto welfare.
It's not even half as bad as you know. You could walk into the back of a Walmart and steal anything you wanted and no one would bat an eye. They're super disorganized.
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Voost Kain
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Isn't the PSClassic 50fps unless you mod it?
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Shodan09
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It's really not a bad little machine if you put your own games on it. I've had Alien Trilogy and Theme Park World running on mine and it's been great. A nice nostalgia hit.
StreetsofBeige
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Same can be said for Home Depot, McDonalds, Costco and other huge stores and nobody ever seems to care about them
And not once have I ever heard Amazon is the devil by selling so much stuff online, making brick and morter stores struggle, all while paying the warehouse people minimum wage. That's the key difference, Walmart is right there and people drive by it. Amazon never promotes where all their fulfillment centres are or how many people work there. So Amazon is out of mind.
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