What has been the worst year for gaming in the past decade? - 2012!

[Ismailxp]

Worst year for gaming? I would say 2005, the year Microsoft released the 360. The console gaming industry has been crawling with boring multi-platform games ever since. Xbox Live started to become popular which was nothing more than a place to spend some $$$ on stupid avatars and activating on-disc DLC. Franchises that used to be great went a huge step backwards in quality as they've been focused to release on as many systems as possible. Developer studios turned into greedy f***ers companies that don't think about anything but money. Major developers took high stakes from Microsoft to not letting them release games exclusively on a rival platform which sacrificed a lot of quality because of the adaptation process. Developers turned into lazy f***ers as they started to deviate from the tradition of releasing a game with nearly no bugs. Day one patches started to appear more and more thanks to Microsofts weak guideline rules. Mediocre FPS games (for average joes) have been predominant in the games selection ever since. JRPG's on consoles became a rarity ever since Microsoft showed the world that the West was the most responsible for the profit of games(the reason why JRPG's shifted to handhelds). Therefore great Japanese devs started westernize their games to make them appeal to average joes with no tastes(Halo/CoD players).

Guess what? Sony jumped on the train too.
2005 was only a beginning of a horrible period that ruined console gaming.

Microsoft should have left xbox for what it is and stuck with PC either as an OS or as a gaming platform. Linux, Apple and Android are becoming a threat to gain a lot of market share in both of the Desktop and Mobile OS market and Steam (an adorable company BTW) is starting to become a monopoly in the PC gaming industry (no, Origin sucks and doesn't even has a chance).

After all these years the only things I care about is 3DS, Vita and Steam.