SoTrue posted...
This has been a very skippable generation. At least it isn't as bad as the Switch.
You know what though?.........I tend to look at the positives when it comes to older consoles, or the more under powered ones like switch sticking around for this long.
Sure, there isn't nowhere near the amount of those "graphical set-piece" like games that is all the rage like they were throughout the previous generations. Those "must have" games that makes people want to buy the newest thing like right the hell now to play this very talked about game.
But....
Game budgets have been getting out of hand for awhile now. Companies put so much money into these type of AAA blockbusters that even if they still sell well on paper they won't make the budget back. It is time this kind of thing is dialed back a bit, and can be seen as a good thing that many releases are still shared with the PS4, xbox one, and/or the switch. Having these old consoles around this long helps recoup costs, and another thing.......bigger budget games being so expensive=risk taking with original ideas and video game concepts from "the bigger guys" (the capcoms, bandai-namcos, the activision-blizzards, etc. etc.) becomes that much rarer. It can get boring at times when the companies with the most money just constantly want to play it safe. Usually we have to depend on indie games for the most originality these days, but it wouldn't hurt to get some of these bigger guys out of their comfort zone and take risks too like they did in the past. (Seriously, something like viewtiful joe probably wouldn't have been attempted in the modern day like it was on the gamecube and then PS2 back then. PS1 games were known to be pretty cheap to make, and so that console hada game library by the ass-load).
It also works out for performance reasons.....older consoles being around=better performance for the PS5/xbox series X and S gamers and easier to reach benchmarks for the PC gamers. Older console users still get to play majority of the latest games since they deal with the performance they get and just like being able to play the recent talked about game in general, those using the latest gen consoles can get the smoother performance and prettier looking light beams. PC gamers get that much more juice out of older CPUs and GPUs since these games are meant to run on the lowest common denominator. Everyone theoretically benefits in the end, imo anyway.