Forbes: Retail Hallucinations And The Pointlessness Of Owning A PlayStation 4 or Xbox One

[theRepublic]

Dr.Henry_Killinger said:

prayformojo said:

NobleTeam360 said:
I think he confused the XB1 and PS4 with the Wii U ( in be for someone takes this comment seriously)

Lets take NFL games for example here.

This is what the NES was capable of.

 

This is what the SNES was capable of.

 

This is what the PS1 was capable of.

 

This is what the PS2 was capable of.

This is what the Xbox 360 was capable of.

 

And finally, the PS4.

 

This is what this guy is talking about. Each console jump, games were not only prettier, but they could do things unimaginable before. But as you can see, the jump to PS4/Xbone is... just, no. Games are just prettier ports of last generation's games (hell, TLOU and GTA5 don't even try to HIDE that fact). Maybe developers will shock us and start actually doing something with them, that has yet to be seen but until then, this article is spot on. 

Diminishing returns.

This a defacto fact of advancing technology. 

The gap between the first two is larger than the following two, and so on and so on. WIth the only thing being disputable is SNES to PS1 vs NES to SNES because this is a graphical comparison, and 2D to 3D is a perspective jump.

Article also ignores the fact, that games are coming much early in general this gen.

Not to mention a simple increase in power doesn't magically create new gameplay. Madden, for example, won't just become new because of a hardware upgrade.

I was going to reply to another one of your posts, but you get it now.  That was the entire point of the article.  In the past, new generations brought new ways to play.  That hasn't happened so much lately.  For last gen, the only things I can think of right now are online play and motion controls.