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Does a more powerful console mean better games?

Yes 61 25.74%
 
No 129 54.43%
 
I am undecided... 7 2.95%
 
MOAR POWER!!!!! 17 7.17%
 
I still play on my last gen machine 15 6.33%
 
The NES classic is the way to go 8 3.38%
 
Total:237

With so many people completely obsessed with raw power, (even people on this forum calling for a PS5 and Xbox... whatever... almost immediately after the announcement of the PS4 and Xbox One) have we not gotten to a point where we are noticing that the promise of more raw power does not mean ANYTHING regarding the quality of a gaming title?

Now just to be clear... I am old enough to remember the Pentium 4, where Intel kept marketing raw clock speed as a means to measure system power/productivity. But AMD kept pushing their little processors saying "Hey, we can actually do as much (if not more) per clock cycle than Intel, at a lower price", and proved that raw power isn't always the way to go. I know that might not be the most apt comparison for this discussion, but in my mind, it makes sense. 

We are now far enough into this console generation (and close enough to yet another "most powerful console" launch) for me to ask this:

Are we really still blinded by companies trying to blind us with raw numbers to get their consoles off the shelf? Does the mere idea of a 6 teraflop console really still hold water, now that we have been introduced to a generation where backwards compatibility, sequels, retro games and remakes/remasters are the order of the day? 

Now I don't deny that there are some great games that have come out this generation, Uncharted 4, Witcher 3, Bloodborne and the like all being absoluetely amazing... but MOST of the titles for this gen are either sequels or spiritual successors. By this point in last gens console race we had the likes of:

 

  • Mass Effect
  • Bioshock
  • Uncharted
  • Gears of War
  • Call of Duty: Modern Warfare
  • Batman: Arkham asylum
  • Assassins Creed
  • Portal
  • Demon's Souls
And that is to name just a few. (I know one of those is technically a sequel, but it is a game that damn near every game immitated from then on). I just don't feel like we are anywhere close to that kind of line up with the PS4/Xbone. And each and every one of the games above was either amazing, or so good that it started a franchise. 
If I look at some of the last gen games, developers were creating nothing less than miracles with their games. God of War 3, The Uncharted series, Halo 4, GTA V, Red Dead Redemption... those games were made with less than 500mb of ram on hardware more than a decade old!!! 
I could honestly ramble on and on about this covering diffferent ideas and facts, but I just honestly want to ask you, dear reader,  if more powerful hardware is honestly what we need right now (I'm thinking Scorpio specifically, but really you could extrapolate as much as you like)?
Or would we rather just have more amazing games were developers are just forced tp push the envelope?


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more power lets developers be more ambitious, and gives them more options.



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No, good game design makes good games.



Zelda: Breath of the Wild /thread



Yes, yes it does. You should also put nintendo into the same perpective. Why do they bother to refresh their hardware. Surely wiiu is more than enough to run Zelda:Botw smoothly if it has OoT graphic fidelity.

And please please play more genres beside rpg

More pwr gives you better physic on racing games, more and constant fps for fighting games, bigger simulation of galaxy economy or leagues in football/sports manager, render your mega structure in minecraft, or build a city with 1million++ population in city builder games.

 

And please stop using your age as an excuse for making this kind of thread



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I don't like 30 fps. 



it always depends on the game really, there are games that really benefit from texture details much more than others

but at this stage, I agree that we don't need any more power

Ps4/Xbox1 level is just enough to achieve any kind of depth needed for the game to be enjoyed, from now on, any additional graphical effects are only pleasant to the eye and do not add much as to what extend you enjoy a game

a very similar case with movies, realistic effects do not necessarily make a good movie, plot and acting is more basic



don't mind my username, that was more than 10 years ago, I'm a different person now, amazing how people change ^_^

Yes, make the same Zelda on ps4 with better fps or better graphism and you have a better games, now this not mean less power = bad games.



No, not necessarily. But it offers you more resources for specific features like having an open world or Mario being able to ride on Yoshi.



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I choose No, not cos I don't believe in it, I believe this is personal and each player can determine how necessary it is according to his playing style
Personally I don't care much about it I can still play my NES collection tell date