This is a very annoying point that gets raised and raises my hackles.
Are some of you folks actually expecting a sudden paradigm shift in how we play games simply because we're heading into a new generation?
What did this current gen bring?
Chest high walls, multiplayer on consoles, DRM, cinematic action, dumbing down and so forth, but it did not change HOW exactly we would play games as opposed to the previous generation. And that one was still just a technical evolution of the previous and so on.
Changes in the gaming environment come steadily, gradually, and UNNOTICED. Could you have a friend in some far away place just log on his tablet, send you a help pack in something you're playing, and just drop out RIGHT NOW? Not really. Do you really CARE that you can do that in the next gen and do you care that phones, tablets, consoles and PCs will be forming a more interconnected ecosystem? I don't really think so. But it's a change, one that some people will enjoy, some will scorn.
Otherwise...how would you change gaming? Often, as I ask this, I get "I dunno, something different". It's hard for companies to cater to a need that we don't know to express.
Expecting a sudden paradigm shift is childish. Everyone wants gourmet meals but most will just as well go to MacDonald's.
