Is PS4 bringing back once sucessful companies that were severely affected on the 7th gen?

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Intrinsic said:

TheSpindler said:

You're seeing what you want to see OP. If anything we are feeling the effects of last gen. Big studios working on big games, while indies do their thing, and mid-tier now pretty much dead.

Costs for development haven't gone down, they've gone up, and it's riskier to launch games.

The PS4 is continuing where the Xbox 360 left off, with of course better Japanese support. Although, with Japanese console devs hedging their bets on the struggling PS4 in Japan, I'm not too sure that'll work out well. When FF and MGS hits or maybe DQ, we'll see if it can recover.

The era of PS!/PS2 variety in console games is long gone. There are a few indie devs bringing some stuff back, but its them mostly mining nostalgia even worse than Nintendo does.

i don't quite agree with you. Last gen their were indie games no doubt but the divide was great. We basically just had AAA and A games. Their was practically zero AA console games. 

This gen we already have AA games like No mans sky, Time, The witness, Everyone's gone to the rapture...etc. And we are having more Japanese interest and upcoming games than most of what we got in the whole of last gen already.

I dunno, but I think it would be some sort of denial to not admit that things this gen are so far Mich much different from what we endured all of last gen. 

Well, A and AA titles went almost (if not entirely) digital, creating a sense of lack of variety. From the 3rd to the 6th gen, if you wanted to make a game, you had to sell it through retail, but now there's digital, cheaper, cleaner, faster and more widespread.

But yeah, now small and medium titles are prefering PC over consoles. Almost every indie that makes a game exclusively for a console also makes it for PC.