8th Gen Lacks excitement

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artur-fernand said:

curl-6 said:

Wii Sports still made the 7th gen feel fresh and exciting, because it was something altogether new.

And Zelda launched on Wii first, with the Gamecube version added later, so it debuted as a 7th gen launch title.

PS3/360 did indeed have dull beginnings, much like PS4/Xbone/Wii U, but the Wii was there to pick up the slack.

As someone who started gaming in the 4th gen, every prior generational transition I've lived through felt like a giant leap forward; 3D in the 5th gen, vastly more complex worlds in the 6th gen, motion gaming in the 7th. This one just feels like a shinier verson of last gen, minus the innovation.

Imagine this: The Last of Us is announced as a PS3 game, and around June, with the game ready to go, they come and say "you know what, let's wait another six months so it can be on PS4". November comes, the game is released, is GOTY and the whole thing.

Question: would the internet be praising the eight gen for its fantastic beginning, or lamenting on the fact that the most exciting game is "a 7th gen game with an 8th gen port"? It's a retorical question really.

 

And Wii Sports made the Wii look fresh and exciting (for a short while). And the Wii has been on a whole different market since the beginning, so when we look at only PS360, it's the exact same situation as the 8th, just like you said. Saying the generation is already lackluster is the very definition of "jumping the gun".

Zelda was seen as an exciting start for the Wii.

And I'm not saying the whole 8th gen will necessarily be lacklustre, and I'm just saying that so far it's lacklustre.