Is the PS4 living up to the standards of it's predecessors?

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teigaga said:

Depends what predecessor.

PS2? No, but PS2 set an impossibly high standard for its first 18months of Final Fantasy X, Metal Gear Solid 2, GTA3, Devil May Cry, Tekken Tag, Kigndom Hearts, Jack And Daxter, Ratchet and Clank, Crash Bandicoot, Time Splitters 1, Grandia, Dark Cloud and I'm sure plenty more I've missed.

Compared to the PS3, I'd argue yes... Ignore exclusives for a minute and just look at quality experiences. PS4 has more then what PS3 had in its first 2 years, no doubt.

This sums up my feelings on the topic pretty well, especially the ending point. If you're comparing directly competing consoles then using exclusives is understandable (or if you're just comparing two, simply what is and isn't on each), but in this case it makes more sense to compare the overall experience provided by both. To that extent, i'd put the PS4 above the PS3 but behind the PS2.

If for some reason we are looking specifically at exclusives though, i think all three present gen systems are a step down from their predecessors. That much of that is due to 3rd parties moving further away from exclusivity in general makes me fine with that though, especially at a primarily PC gamer.