Anyone else NOT excited for the next gen consoles?

[KungKras]

oniyide said:

DevilRising said:

KungKras said:

Gen 8 will be the gen of retro gaming.

I bet all of you guys miss Sega now huh?

This is the natural step that follows when you let companies like MS and Sony take over gaming.

I would far rather that Sega still made consoles, and that Microsoft didn't, if that's what you mean. I'd far rather that the only console makers were actual VIDEO GAMES companies like Nintendo, Sega, Atari, whatever, instead of megacorporations that put out very corporate products.

 

For THAT matter though, I miss the good ol days, when console games were CONSOLE games, and PC games were PC GAMES. As in that's all they were for. You want console games, you play a fucking console. You want PC games (which usually indicated types of games you generally only found ON PC), then you play the PC. It was nice, because you had both, and personally I LIKED both. And I liked them being two seperate things.

Nowadays, PC is practically treated like another console, which is rather silly, and because of things like Steam, PC gets ports of practically everything. I just don't really see the point of it. I think that once upon a time, PC gaming used to be rather unique and iventive. Not anymore. Now, it's all intermingled, and that, to an "old timer" like myself, is just....what's the expression I'm looking for.......ah yes, "Fucking stupid".

 

But hey.

Neither of you are stupid, far from it, you just sound like one of those old bitter "back in my days" guys who feel there way was better, and hell you might be right. But things change, deal with it. SOme of us have some of the same problems, but you could always just sit out a gen. Thats what ill probably do sans portables.

Actually, I'm not gonna deal with it. If gaming leaves me, then I'll leave gaming. Gaming is not essential to my life. Sitting out next gen is my plan atm, unless Wii U gets it together.

EDIT, I'm probably bitter, but I'm not that old :P. I grew up with N64, but playing the NES and Megadrive a lot retroactively did make me disilutioned about modern gaming.