Mazty on 05 February 2013
| BasilZero said: If it is a successor to a system from the previous or ongoing generation |
And what if said successor is no more powerful then pre-existing consoles? With that idea if the next-box contaimed a hamster and straw, it's still 8th gen.
| DigitalDevilSummoner said: both power and capabilities like motion controls or touch screens define a console gen. because we are not talking about PCs which are 100% about power we are talking about consoles which are about innovating gameplay. so yeah i do consider the WiiU to be next gen because of its gameplay advancements with the touch pad thing |
But why does motion controls or touch pad define a console as being next gen if those ideas do not become wide-spread?
For example the wii may have introduced motion controls, but as far as core gaming goes, motion controls have not, and do not look like they will be considered an improvement over existing technology. The complexity with saying new hardware defines a new gen is that you have to then consider the eyetoy. That didn't make the PS2 next gen...
