Did we REALLY need or want a new generation of consoles?

[Mr Puggsly]

super_etecoon said:

Mr Puggsly said:

I think the average consumer just wants pretty graphics and fun game play. I don't think that's necessarily a bad thing.

I'd like to see what you consider a true next-gen experience. But at the end of the day, I just wanna have fun while playing a game.

I'd like a game to defy my sense of reality.  To shift my perpective so much I feel like I'm hallucinating.  This has happened through the generations of consoles.  Have you watched that Cosmos show they're running on the National Geographic Channel right now with Neil Degrasse Tyson?  Crazy stuff going on in that show.

I think "next-gen gameplay" could have been done last generation as well, btw...if developers weren't so focused on polygons. 

I just feel like the developers aren't thinking outside the box right now.  They know that their market is a bunch of graphics junkies who don't really need to go beyond the surface of their game.  Let's have some deconstruction going on.  Let's let the bottom fall out of a game and disappear into the coding.  Let's have "glitches" that actually become the "path."  Let's just fuck shit up.  That's all I'm saying.

Sounds simple enough!