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TornadoCreator on 07 March 2014
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BMaker11 said:
TornadoCreator said:
My rule still stands, I'd like to think there's nothing that will make me break my rule, but that's not true. To re-iterate:

My rule, though admittedly it's one I got from a podcast, but it's a good rule: Only buy a console when it has a minimum of five games you want out for it on the day of purchase, that you can't play on a platform you already own. This is a golden rule, and it's why I don't own a PS4/Xbone. InFamous: Second Son would count, Dead Rising 3 would count, Assassin's Creed 4 would not as it's on the last gen machines. So that's how my rule works. So; Metal Gear Solid V, Watch_Dogs, and The Evil Within... none of these count because they're all coming to last gen hardware. The Order 1886, Final Fantasy XV, Cyberpunk 2077 and Batman: Arkham Knight however all count because none of them are coming out on last-gen hardware. It's a hard rule to follow, especially when they promise better graphics and a better experience, but the difference will be minimal so it's not worth the expense.

All this said, I love Final Fantasy and if they can make FF15 actually decent, something deserving of going up next to FF6-10 as a part of the series, that'll be the shove I need. (I used to scoff at FF10, then the franchise got sooo bad it hurt and now I welcome it with open arms, so that's what FF13 did Squeenix. It was so bad I lowered my standards). So yeah, if FF15 is good I will sing from the rooftops about how my true love for gaming is back; the problem is, this is Sqeeenix we're talking about, so it'll probably suck terribly at which point I don't feel I should be morally or indeed legally responsible for my actions.

As much as that rule "makes sense", I don't think it's actually that reasonable. If I can extrapolate this: if this was a rule that every console buyer went by, then there'd be very few sales for at least the first year the console is on the market. Then publishers will think to themselves "why should we put our game on this console? Only X amount of people own it. No way would we get a return on our investment". They could take the risk and think "our game is gonna be so great, it will drive people to buy the hardware and the game", but remember.....you gotta wait until 5 games come out in order to buy the system. So really, the game wouldn't push hardware if people are just waiting until a certain number of games come out.

I know this is an extreme hypothetical.....but the proposition that you shouldn't buy a next gen console until 5 games not available on a current gen console come out is kinda extreme as well, in the grand scheme of things.

OT: I already picked up a PS4 and I got it for no other reason that I had the means to do it. It also "forced" me to get PS+, which allowed me to take advantage of the free games on PS3 and PS4. So while no game made me go "I need a PS4 right now", the PS4 itself kinda paid for itself. I have Uncharted 3, Shadow of the Colossus HD, Bioshock Infinite, Metro: Last Light, DmC, Resogun, Outlast, and Dead Nation: Apocalypse. I would have gotten Shadow Fall when I bought the system, but I just picked up KZ3 a few weeks prior for like $8 at Disc Replay, and I'm still playing that. Didn't see a point in having two Killzones that were new to me.

I can see your point, but the success of products is not my concern, my entertainment is and if it's a good product it'll win my favour by being entertaining and value for money... I'm a gaming enthusiast, as is everyone else I give that advice to. If the companies cared what we thought we'd have incredible new games to play on the systems at launch, but we don't we have cross-gen releases, dude-bro shooters, and sports games. The good games come out a year later, generally speaking, and that's why I wait.

I'm on a fixed income and my money is very limited. Now, if I had disposable income, I'd buy the PS4 now based solely on future potensial, but I don't and I can't which is why I have my rule. I have multiple rules actually in order to curb my game spending. The way I see it, I could buy a PS4 and 2 controllers, with InFamous: Second Son and Knack, and that's pretty much all I'd have to play for the next 6 months (maybe longer). Or I could spend that money on aproximately 25-30 new games for my PS3, Vita, 3DS, and Wii U. The latter is surely a better option. Sure it's nice to have new things, but why would I spend so much money on a new system for one or two games, when I could literally have dozens of great games for systems I already own, for the same price? If I'm honest, 5 games is an absolute minimum limit, I prefer to be able to list 10.