IYO, what are the worst things this gen has brought to the table?

[Kenryoku_Maxis]

SnowWhitesDrug said:
I don’t like how the industry is split in 2. I'm looking at the High Def and Standard Def split. For the last 2 generations we had consoles that put very similar quality renderings on our TV screens and did pretty much the same thing, except for Nintendo’s neglect of CD and DVD compatibility. It came down to the controllers, exclusives, and where your loyalties stood.

This generation though we are forced to make a decision that I don’t think gamers should be forced to make. We either take the visually lower end of the gaming industry in order to have our motion controls and games that are supported purely on game play but do very little to entice the visual senses. Or we forgo these motion controls, which may or may not be a gimmick depending on where you stand, for games that are visually stunning, beautiful and teaming with life.

The thing is for me, the Wii never delivered this amazing game play advantage. So it lost its purpose quite quickly. I did try to renew it with Mario games and other assorted 3rd party games but after the thrill of twilight princess, metroid prime 3 and warrioware wore off there was nothing solid on the system that interested me. I even tried to bring my love for Geometry Wars to the Wii but I found it to have huge control issues (I blame myself for not listening to IGN)

So I turned from Nintendo. And that’s what I hate, that I was forced out of my love for Nintendo. That Nintendo made me make that decision! I quickly realised that it wasn’t so much that I loved Nintendo, but I loved gaming. So it was a sad loss, but I am better for it. I would have preferred to still care about Nintendo given I spent so many years supporting them and now they are succeeding again it would have been a nice victory for me. But it seems as though I have one again gone with the potentially loosing system, the 360. Only because I prefer the controller over the ps3’s. It all came down to the position of the L and R triggers.

Such a fickle industry this is that customers would base their loyalty on something as small as the position of 2 buttons. But I prefer this kind of decision making over the monumental decision of Wii or HD

If we dissected your argument further, we could say that there even more divisions going on between those who chose to only stick to the 'HD consoles'.  Considering the fact that for much of their lifetime, both the hardware and software on those platforms were much higher than previous years, it forced people to choose one 'side'.  Causing yet another divide (360 vs PS3).  And even more than that, now we also have people choosing 'consoles vs handhelds' and 'PC vs consoles'.

So its not so cut and dry of those who decided to choose HD over the Wii.  There's a whole hodge-podge of divisions going on this gen, and none of it is helping gaming as a whole....except for putting money into the pockets of the producers of the most expensive and most heavily marketed games which are targeted at those groups.