I think the major reason why there is urgency is because this generation is going to probably be a short one. Nintendo's already alluding to their next platform, which will likely release in 2017 at the latest. Sony and Microsoft's hardware will be pretty dated in a year or so (meaning third parties will push for a new platform.) Last generation lasted 7 years just about, and it was alright for the first two years to be slow if the next five or so will be fantastic. This generation seems to be a 5 year interim one, and if it takes 1.5 years for a sizable number of decent games to start releasing then we should expect the overall number of quality games to be less than the 7th generation. I think it is a combination of this and the law of diminishing returns (people don't feel like the new games are that much of an upgrade technology-wise) which make people unsatisfied. As PC gamer, who doesn't really game in generations (I'm still playing games from 2012-2014 that were in my backlog) I don't find this to be a huge issue. I have a huge backlog of games to play, and I don't care about the law of diminishing returns because third parties aren't even using this new hardware to make new experiences, they are just making the same games but with better visuals. I'm not bothered by it though, because the games are still good.
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