A confession.

I love modding game consoles for homebrew & piracy, way back to the Dreamcast days. I like being able to do what I want with my hardware. I get as much enjoyment learning how to own the consoles as I do from playing video games I think.

I didn't have to work a real job for 3 years during the original Xbox run, just modded consoles for a living, installing 250GB drives loaded with games, TV and movies. My roommate at the time was a weed dealer and we had 4 networked Xbox in the house for epic halo lan parties, and people over constantly. That was good times. I even had a filesharing server on an Xbox running Gentoo Linux. Ever built Gentoo from source on a P3-733 with 64mb ram? Not recommended.

The original PSP had a pretty good scene as well, I did loads of those for friends. All my Nintendo handhelds have seen flashcards, and I helped my friends with that too. 3ds is a great retro handheld, get them while they are cheap! Software mods are crazy easy.

My current favorite is the Switch, love the form factor! Currently installing the new Zelda game 12 days early. I'll be back with spoilers soon!