Which Console Should You Buy This Holiday? 2015 Edition

[Cerebralbore101]

S.T.A.G.E. said:

Halo is dropping in the fourth quarter. Forget the other games Microsoft is bringing, when the first Halo drops on the Xbox it turns heads. You will see. Sony has no fourth quarter blockbuster which will shift consoles and at the same time sell above eight million on average in the west. Sure, Sony's got everywhere else in the world based on knowledge of what a base console is, but what Microsoft is offering this year is far more valuable than any other year since 2013 for the holiday season.

Well, it will be an interesting year to watch for sure. I haven't really paid much attention to how many units Halo pushed out the door, in the past. Maybe I'll be in for a surprise. Critics have been harder, and harder on Halo with each new release. Halo 4 got a respectable 87% on metacritic, but that's quite the drop from previous entries. It's still a must buy game of course. I'm kind of left wondering if 343 can keep the quality up as long as Bungie did. Halo 5 will be 343's first sequel after taking over. Sequels tend to be a little worse than the original, especially when it comes to longrunning series.

This console cycle is taking too long to rev up. The avalaiblility of games on both the PS4, and XBO have been extremely underwhelming so far. The next few months should see them both hit their strides though. As far as I'm concerned as far as good games go, Nintendo has been killing it. The 3DS library exploded with quality games around 2013, and hasn't really let up since. The Wii U was slow to start, but they are in their third year, and three more AAA games are about to drop. That would bring the number of quality Wii U exclusives to nine (I count Splatoon since they keep updating it).

I miss the old days, when consoles had at least one epic game at launch. Even the 360 had Oblivion six months in, to keep us busy. Back then it was a big deal, since PC wasn't quite mainstream yet.