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

 

[NardoBoom]

I moved to PC more than 10 years ago, the only console i have is a Switch. I rarely buy games Day 1 so i save money on deals and bundles for steam

 

[Blamhammer]

There’s usually something interesting with the main publishers when it comes to each console. I think it was the VR with the PS4. They sold a lot, but it just seemed to have, I dunno, vanish?
I think they tried it with the PS5 but they seemed to have shifted to live service or more cinematic games with higher budgets and bigger price tags, oh and on the hardware as well too.

The PS4 hardware is 12 years old. PC equivalent today is dirt cheap and you can grab so many good new games that would work perfectly on it. You could argue that they could do the same with the PS4\XBox One but their investors want something new and better, and they answer to them.
Not us. So we go and find the games we wanna play elsewhere.

 

[Lweo4]

I hope there is something good, because I'm tired and don't even care that much about new games anymore, I'm too old for this, all the tech that they keep talking about just makes me more disappointed in the course things are going, I hear people talking things like "Trust me bro, Raytracing is just starting, in some years it will be good" since 2018, I won't even start on the sh*t show of optimization that games are becoming.

These days, they take too much time and money to make a game, adding a lot of things that could be left out to make the project release faster. I hardly see new IPs or even sequels, there are a lot of remasters and remakes.

 

[Frickinfrik]

I’ve kinda just left modern gaming in favor of retro gaming. Modern games just aren’t the same as games from back then.

 

[Antilocal123]

As long as one is easy to rob I could care less, gimme another mega console so I can sell it to some shmuck kid for a couple hundreds.

 

[legsrjust4show]

I'm like in this belief that we're facing the end for consoles. At least, what we usually know as consoles.

Things like the Steam Deck and Switch 2 will probably stick around, but unless if something crazy happens and makes PC gaming completely inaccessible, I think this might be it for now. Everyone is seemingly jumping onboard the PC train now.

But also I don't even feel like the PS5/Xbox Series X have been worth it??? Mostly because the software lineup has really been empty for them and it's because the industry is spiraling out of control and run by higher up lunatics who only care about their bottom line.

Like the whole AAA game industry right now it's like they're making a massive thanksgiving dinner and then all the people that helped make them their dinner are told "HIT THE ROAD" and they turned to the some new group of people who haven't had a chance to cook before yet and said "Do you know how to cook? No? Well get started we need this done in two years" and all those new people have are the leftovers from last year and they need to be replaced and have to start over from scratch. Then the guy running show goes "Hey forget that dinner, did you see what Fortnite just did? Do that" and now they're making a mcfreakin battle royale video game instead of a dinner what is even happening anymore to this analogy

 

[bjork]

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 ??

"Lost their way" how? Keeping in mind that they're a companies built on the notion of turning a profit, and all of these moves they make are clearly weighed out by some fairly smart people as well as focus testing and whatnot, so what was their way supposed to be?

 

[Skeetos]

"Lost their way" how? Keeping in mind that they're a companies built on the notion of turning a profit, and all of these moves they make are clearly weighed out by some fairly smart people as well as focus testing and whatnot, so what was their way supposed to be?

I get this angle, but I get the other guy's angle as well. I feel like consoles today aren't like the ones we had before. Not just video games, but a lot of new stuff just doesn't carry the same feeling of love and passion. Like yeah, we will always have indie devs that do cool shit, but the main companies aren't really utilizing the things they built their brands on anymore in exchange for simple, less appealing design and feel. Still can't get over Sony cancelling a Prototype/inFamous crossover for Concord. I feel like if you go back to the older consoles, like the OG Xbox, PS2, PS3, even the PS4, they had a specific vibe to them, and with the PS5 and Series consoles it feels like they dropped that aspect for simplicity. Maybe to cut costs, maybe to cut labor, could be any reason, but it sucks.

 

[bjork]

I get this angle, but I get the other guy's angle as well. I feel like consoles today aren't like the ones we had before. Not just video games, but a lot of new stuff just doesn't carry the same feeling of love and passion. Like yeah, we will always have indie devs that do cool shit, but the main companies aren't really utilizing the things they built their brands on anymore in exchange for simple, less appealing design and feel. Still can't get over Sony cancelling a Prototype/inFamous crossover for Concord. I feel like if you go back to the older consoles, like the OG Xbox, PS2, PS3, even the PS4, they had a specific vibe to them, and with the PS5 and Series consoles it feels like they dropped that aspect for simplicity. Maybe to cut costs, maybe to cut labor, could be any reason, but it sucks.

I think you're right, but I don't see it as them losing their way. It's the market showing the majority will accept less for a higher cost. I don't like it either, but that might as well be the mission statement for most companies nowadays.

 

[Skeetos]

I think you're right, but I don't see it as them losing their way. It's the market showing the majority will accept less for a higher cost. I don't like it either, but that might as well be the mission statement for most companies nowadays.

I think we are both right lol.

 

[NotGodlike]

I say let it die!

 

[Skeetos]

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:

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Average Arch Linux user.

 

[propixeladventurer]

Let me tell you one thing: I didn't expect to find some people here with the same feeling as myself about the gaming industry. I think I probably should be worried about completing or actually play through my backlog rather than spending time searching for the latest game rumours / news or "what's to come next".

Because yeah, I have faith about things changing for the best, but I kinda lost some of it already, since like the PS3-360 generation. There's just too much greed going on right now, and these developers / publishers, they changed their perspective about gaming. They DO NOT intend to make games like they used to make, like classics, hidden-gems, Double As, or games focused on FUN and CREATIVITY (just like the indies! You should NOT ignore them just because they don't come from a well-known company). These corporations, they're kinda "desperate" and they want someone with huge amounts of money to keep investing on them like crazy. That's why there are soooo many microtransactions on current videogames.

I guess everyone here on this topic knows the situation pretty well, so there's no need to explain it further. But what I can say is that: I'm doing my part. I may not be a huge Youtuber or celebrity, who can spread the word and create a movement so people can move around and boycott the market as a whole, but I'm conscious and I got my own life to care about. And honestly? To me, that's enough really. I game by my own terms and everybody should just do the same. Games are a passion. TRUTH. But don't you ever take your hobby so seriously like that.

 

[Adrastia]

I moved to PC more than 10 years ago, the only console i have is a Switch. I rarely buy games Day 1 so i save money on deals and bundles for steam

There's really no need for anything other than PC and Nintendo if you need those Nintendo exclusives.

 

[propixeladventurer]

There's really no need for anything other than PC and Nintendo if you need those Nintendo exclusives.

Which one do you think its more worth: A modded WiiU or a modded Switch?