| Shadow1980 said: Is this your first time early-adopting? Assuming you really are 25, then you may or may not have gotten your first job right around the time the seventh generation began. So, what was the first system you bought with your own money, and when? I ask because it's important in establishing a reference frame for your experience and perspective, or lack thereof. In any case, as others pointed out, this supposed drought is nothing new. Like most things gamers have been complaining about since the PS4 and XBO debuted, this has happened before and will happen again. The situation was no different for the PS1, PS2, PS3, Xbox, 360, N64, GameCube, Wii, and Dreamcast, all systems I've bought since getting my first job back in the late 90s. Also, your definition of "shovelware" is obscenely broad and includes: Anything that's an annualized series (e.g., COD, Assassin's Creed, sports games); localizations of Japanese games that were not released simultaneously in both the West and Japan; anything third-party that's not big-budget AAA; ports that were delayed due to timed exclusivity; any and all re-releases or enhanced remakes; indie games; games based on licensed properties (e.g., Shadow of Mordor). Also, there's many games that are arbitrarily crossed off as "shovelware." On what grounds do you label Alien: Isolation, The Crew, or The Evil Within as shovelware? If you're going to only include the tippy-top of the AAA-list, then every system looks bad in its first year. The problem isn't lack of games. The problem is lack of games that interest you personally. Anything else is dismissed as "shovelware." But as I've said in other threads on this topic, a console is a long-term investment. Nobody with reasonable expectations buys a console hoping to play literally dozens of top-shelf games in the first few months. You buy a console hoping to play dozens of top-shelf games over its multi-year life cycle (in fact, based on attach rate data, the average gamer buys between 8-12 games for any given system). Between my PS4 and Wii U I have a dozen games (not counting indies and Virtual Console games), and I'm more than satisfied with what I have. By year's end, I hope to add at least another another dozen to that total. By the end of next year I may have 30 or more eighth-gen games. There's more than enough to choose from, and anyone who says otherwise is picky to a fault. |
the first console i bought with my own money was.. the wii u. but its really not about what i bought with my own money. its about what i have experienced over the course of my life.
i have been an owner of all seventh gen consoles from the start. sixth gen, the gc and ps2 tore it up pretty quickly. 64 had an abnormally low amount of games, but there were other factors that contributed to that. ps1 got the ball rolling pretty quick. snes, genesis had games coming out the ass immediately as well. i really dont see how whats going on right now is the same as what happened with older consoles.
also, for your information, i have probably like 6000 video games in my closet. i know a shit ton about the history of all the major consoles and, really, since the super nintendo started, ive played all of them as they were released. (i had older brothers 6 and 10 years older than me so i was fortunate enough to start out with actraiser for snes as my very first video game.)
