Gamespot: Where are all the Great Console Games?

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Mike_L said:

Riverstyx said:
On the handhelds mostly.

On home consoles mostly.

 

Released, good games:

Bayonetta 2
Dead Rising 3
Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze
Driveclub
Dying Light
Evolve
inFamous: Second Son
Killer Instinct
Killzone: Shadow Fall
Mario Kart 8
New Super Mario Bros. U
Ori and the Blind Forest
Pikmin 3
Resogun
Shovel Knight
Sunset Overdrive
Super Mario 3D World
Super Smash Bros. U
The Wonderful 101
Transisto

When you take out crossgen titles, the list gets a lot smaller.  And I'd argue that not all of those games are "great".  Personally, I only think the bolded ones meet that standard.

The reason crossgen titles don't count is because in general, there is absolutely no difference in crossgen titles besides resolution and some special effects, which many people don't find worth 400 dollars.

Before, new consoles meant new experiences you simply couldn't have on older systems.  You couldn't play Wii Sports without the Wii's controls.  Dead Rising simply produced too many characters for the XBox to hold (see the Wii version).  FZero wouldn't be playble on the NES, except in a severely compromised form.  Final Fantasy 7 was too large for disc based systems.  Sonic the Hedgehog would have been terrible on the Master System (and it was).  Shenmue was far too large for the Saturn to handle.

New consoles should mean new experiences.  The whole point is to play something you couldn't have on an older system.  Going from the PS1 to PS2 was like going from a Nokia flip phone to a Droid.  Going from the PS3 to the PS4 is like going from an iPhone 5 to an iPhone 5s.