Thread by @108

several people have asked me, so, OK: yeah, i'll stream myself "reacting" to the playstation 5 event later today. whenever that is, just check out twitch dot tv slash actionbutton !!!

@necrosofty you're invited btw in case you didn't see my text . . . !

i'll try to go live maybe 30 minutes before the event for a "predictions" section. uhh. i got some guys coming to reglaze my bathtub (literally) in a couple minutes, so i hope they're done before that, else i reveal my Full IdiotBaby Self around a buncha professional man's men

in all seriousness, i only want one thing from the playstation 5 event: i want ridge racer. where is ridge racer? we have gone a whole 1.9 console generations without a ridge racer. namco: forza horizon is eating your lunch. give the people a launch-day Ridge Racer.

ridge racer *is* the sony playstation as much as any other game can claim to be. they were there Day One of PlayStation One. they showed the people shockingly fast virtuoso graphics. put next to daytona on saturn (which i LOVE btw) it was no contest. the performance was palpable

at the time the playstation emerged, namco had spent over a decade drilling down on racing games--as an arcade machine manufacturer, they needed fast, loud graphics, and racing games show that off harder than any other genre. ridge racer was their ELEVENTH arcade racing game!

when the playstation came out, namco had RIDGE RACER available Day One. they refined it over the course of the playstation 1 generation. every new ridge racer was a huge technical milestone! revolution added more tracks, rage racer added an upgrade system, R4 "finished" the game

ridge racer 5 launched with the playstation 2. i loved it. i considered it a Good Sequel to the hugeness of R4, though i rarely hear anyone speak of it at all, much less speak of it fondly. namco put out some ridge racers on PSP, though no other PS2 ridge racer ever appeared.

almost six YEARS after Ridge Racer 5, we had Ridge Racer 6--on Xbox 360, day one. playstation's prized cheerleader had defected! then, in a Shocking Twist, namco incremented the seldom-touched numeral AGAIN a mere *eleven months* later: Ridge Racer 7 for the PlayStation 3 launch

since then . . . nothing. maybe there's been something on mobile phones, or some browser game, or some weird arcade thing to set up next to skee-ball or pac-man battle royale at some Family Fun Centers. if there's been a ridge racer since, i ain't seen it!

so here's what i want: i want namco to announce Ridge Racer 8 for the sony playstation 5. . . . then i want them to release the same game for the xbox series x, and call it Ridge Racer 9.

well, that's what i want. bye for now

basically, give us a Ridge Racer 8 that runs at 4K60 with bonkers ray-tracing and no load times on the PlayStation 5, the way Ridge Racer 7 on PlayStation 3 ran at 1080p60 *day one*. no other PS3 game dared for YEARS

then make Ridge Racer 9 on Xbox Series X 4K120 lol

ok NOW bye

actually wait here is a better joke: they should call the xbox version "Ridge Racer 10"