Next generation of games and consoles

[dany28]

The world of games has grown in recent years but I'm a little worried about what will happen in the future. It is already missing that the manufacturers and especially the console manufacturers have slowly lost their way. It's all about expensive prices . What do you think about everything ??

 

[moonbits]

why waste my short life worrying about that

 

[Rorisu]

that it will just go worst and worst because people keeps buying day one with those prices, so they keep saying at the market that this price are "affordable" so they will keep growing them in the future... and i seriously doubt all people will stop buying at those prices so it's unlikely that they will ever go down for day one consoles and games...

 

[Raggs]

Not fazed. At all. I learned several years ago I can play hundreds of great games on a literal $300 pile of trash. I've played so many modern games on an inexpensive refurbished notebook with small optimizations and tweaks. I make it a policy to ignore what stupid decisions major corporations make. Entertainment is out there to be found and enjoyed.

This picture is a bit of an exaggeration, but the sentiment remains intact:

 

[ShinnAsukaYESTaylorSwiftNO]

crud like this is why I lost faith in consoles (outside of Emulation and PC handhelds)

 

[fake-kun]

I don't care.

 

[Boscobilly]

I think there will still be good stuff well into the future, but if not, I'm not too concerned. I already have well enough games to last me the rest of my life.

 

[LaserMoose]

Lots of games are already readily available through older systems and emulation - the next gen systems lack a sense of identity present on older hardware, which makes them a tough sell for myself personally. Part of what made earlier gens like the 5th (PS1, N64, Saturn) so interesting is their unique architecture compared to one another. They each had strengths and weaknesses to their libraries because of this. The current generation lacks this, and as such, the systems are nigh interchangeable for the majority of games.

There are still games that come out every once in a while that interest me, however what is found on that list is few and far in-between.

 

[Yankee]

Like many others the next generation of consoles and games isn't something that I particularly care about personally. However, just because I don't care about something doesn't mean it isn't important.
There's a future past when we stop playing games and it's filled with more young gamers who don't deserve the crappy state we seem content with leaving to them.

It's easy for us to go play the games from our childhoods, for example. Some awesome codemonkeys have made sure of that for us. Hardworking programmers and archivers preserving games because they care about the future. But for the eight year old whose first game love was Astro-Bot think of how worse the future is for him. Will he be able to go back and play that when he's 25, 35, 45 like we can go back and play Mario, Crash, or Spyro? Will emulation of the PS5 exist? Will hardware even work if he has the disc since it can't check for licenses and updates and shit? What about games with no physical media, as is becoming more common now with crap like the Game Key Nintendo wants to do.

I think it's worth thinking about these things for the future's sake. It's poor form for us to pull up the ladder saying "Well we got our old games so fuck the rest."

 

[jankusanagi]

My list of pre-PS2-era games will last me until the day I day, so... whatever