>not a single depiction of the internet
In fact, I don't even recall ever seeing a computer in the game. This is the biggest misstep of the game. Realistically speaking, the characters would be using computers and the internet to study, send each other e-mails, etc. Yet none of that ever occurs in the game.
According the official Persona timeline, this is even supposed to take place in 2011.
Thats nice, user.
You fucking retard, this was made in 2008 where computer wasn't really heavy relevant, not even to high schoolers.
>You fucking retard, this was made in 2008 where computer wasn't really heavy relevant
abcnews.go.com
>24 December 2008, 22:38
>Our collective obsession with social-networking sites continued in 2008, as did their search for a viable business model. Although economic conditions have been grim for the industry in the past few months , enthusiasm for the sites continues to run high. Twitter, a popular but non-money-making poster child for the whole Web 2.0 industry, spawned an ecosystem of competitors, knockoffs, plug-ins, and add-ons, some of which struggled to stay afloat as the site strained under the ever-increasing amount of data produced and requested by its users. Users themselves struggled to manage information overload from multiple social-networking services, prompting some companies to come up with ways to streamline by sharing data. However, one of the biggest networks, Facebook, took a different approach: it carved out a position apart from its competitors.
>Amid the economic turmoil, some good news was that Web companies became cheaper to start than ever before: they could simply lease access to computer power from a growing list of "cloud computing" providers.
I'd sure like to know what alternate universe you lived in where people didn't commonly use the internet in 2008.
>rural japan 2007
haha look at her go!
They were children who didn't use computers themselves and have to google what it was like.
en.wikipedia.org
>Internet users: 117.5 million users, 5th in the world
Retard, Japan has the best internet in the world. What the fuck does 'rural' have to do with it? The entire point of the internet is that it's available anywhere.
Persona 4 takes place in 2011 though (for some reason).
there was a laptop u could use in persona 3
P4 came out in like 2008 or something. The internet was only on computers and iPhones had just come out so normies didn't know the internet worked yet.
Well, they're well-adjusted, social teenagers so they have no need to use the internet.
Why would you send an e-mail when you can just walk to your friend's place and have a chat?
The characters are all normies living in a small rural town. Yu using the internet heavily or even to play an MMO like in P3 would be unfitting to the game's setting and themes.
They do use email, I remember Yosuke saying he would send Yu an email at some point in the game.
The biggest reason for no internet or computer use is that Yu simply didn't have the money or resources to get one, officially. His uncle didn't have internet or a computer either.
When I was a senior in HS in 2005 we only had one computer in our household. Up until that point, there was a lot of time I wasn't using a computer because my parents probably needed to use it instead. I didn't bother with a smartphone until almost 2015. thanks for reading my blog.
>normies
normies used the internet in 2008 too Who do you think was the primary audience for Facebook and Twitter?
It was made in 2007. They cant see into the future, bro.
City people who had computers at home.
That's pretty consistent with them living in buttfuck middle of nowhere rural Japan
>It was made in 2007. They cant see into the future, bro.
Look in the future for what, retard?
>24 December 2008, 22:38
>Our collective obsession with social-networking sites continued in 2008, as did their search for a viable business model. Although economic conditions have been grim for the industry in the past few months , enthusiasm for the sites continues to run high. Twitter, a popular but non-money-making poster child for the whole Web 2.0 industry, spawned an ecosystem of competitors, knockoffs, plug-ins, and add-ons, some of which struggled to stay afloat as the site strained under the ever-increasing amount of data produced and requested by its users. Users themselves struggled to manage information overload from multiple social-networking services, prompting some companies to come up with ways to streamline by sharing data. However, one of the biggest networks, Facebook, took a different approach: it carved out a position apart from its competitors.
>Amid the economic turmoil, some good news was that Web companies became cheaper to start than ever before: they could simply lease access to computer power from a growing list of "cloud computing" providers.
Which is weird because in P3 you larp as Tatsuya and the Hermit teacher as Maya playing some Persona 2 MMO
computers didn't exist in Japan until 2014
Yeah they used like some social media too...Just chatting and leveling your s.link
Except half the cast are people from the big city who just recently moved to Inaba.
teenagers and college students as their parents had no clue how to use them
en.m.wikipedia.org
>In February 2007, the Japanese company NTT DoCoMo tested a 4G communication system prototype with 4×4 MIMO called VSF-OFCDM at 100 Mbit/s while moving, and 1 Gbit/s while stationary. NTT DoCoMo completed a trial in which they reached a maximum packet transmission rate of approximately 5 Gbit/s in the downlink with 12×12 MIMO using a 100 MHz frequency bandwidth while moving at 10 km/h,[36] and is planning on releasing the first commercial network in 2010.
>2007. Prototype.
Time exists and things in the past are different from what they are now. Just letting you know.
>OP can't understand that some people don't care about computers and the internet
Man, it's hilarious how most of Zig Forums lives inside a mental bubble where they reject anything that doesn't reflect their own reality.
No wonder this board enters in shock every time a console sells X billion units.
>internet didn't exist prior to 4G
Okay, so you're a retard.
>OP can't understand that some people don't care about computers and the internet
What would those people be? Because characters like Yosuke are obsessed with their cell phone and who text messages them.
Yosuke mentions emailing the MC in one scene
Its 2008 and they live in bumblefuck nowhere, why would they have the internet that would hardly work at all
Are you also gonna bitch that nobody has iphones??
The MC has no computer in his room nor is there one in the Dojima residence, so that's a pretty stupid scene then/
Flip phones with multimedia features were considered cutting-edge at the time. They were far better than those razr and full keyboard phones being sold in the west.
Also Moraoka at one point complains about the social media at the time (mixing livejournal and MySpace)
>Are you also gonna bitch that nobody has iphones??
No, because iphones were...were they even invented at that point? If they were, they hadn't even remotely entered mainstream consciouness at that point.
The internet however absolutely had by 2008.
So this comparison is utterly retarded, like yourself.
>Also Moraoka at one point complains about the social media at the time (mixing livejournal and MySpace)
He specifically complains about students using social media too much.
Which makes it all the more ironic the game never shows even a single instance of that happening.
Japan is a developing country and they didn't have broad usage of internet until 2014
That's because the whole story relies on mankind giving up the search for the truth and comforting with artificial truths made by the media (the TV) and creating their own reality.
Putting computers in the plot will make the player question "Why isnt there a Midnight Website then?" and make the whole plot more convoluted.
Yosuke also mentions getting spam emails in one of his social links.
Japan has shit for internet and still does
it's Japan and the game was made in 2008, Japan doesn't have the same at home computer culture that the west does
The original iphone was out for a full year before the release
But much like the internet, it took a while for things to catch on
Obviously you werent in school back in 2008, so no, not everyone used computers back then
Inaba's a Japanese hick town so small that getting a Junes was enough to kill local business and still operated with fuckhuge analog tv antennas. The internet wasn't a big factor to them.
Nah, I can buy that, you just never lived in a rural nowhere, nothing kind of town. My classmates didn't have very easy access to internet until high school.