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Jabba89 on 23 March 2018
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Nautilus said:
Jabba89 said:

The problem with some of these innovations is that a lot of people probably just want to sit on their couch to relax and play games. Motion controls were terrible because they are not specific enough compared to using a controller and you usually had to move around too much, you also needed a decent amount of space.  VR is awesome and can give you a great experience but you are also completely isolated from everything around you while playing.  That would make it hard to play games with my wife or my kids.

I like my console, I just want to keep getting great games.

Pretty sure people didnt think Kingdom Hearts was a good idea.Pretty sure people didnt think that 3D was going to work out as well as it did.Pretty sure people thought that the game industry wouldnt work because it was silly.People were more than fine with offline games, then multiplayer games came along and are now considered normal.Most thought Nintendo would fall under with the Wii and the DS.Look at us now, with most consoles having motion controls of some kind(DS4 has a bit of that, and its almost the cornerstone of the PSVR), and many technological devices has some form of touchscreen.

Want more examples outside of gaming?No one thought that cellphones would be so essential to our lifes, but look at them now.The same for the internet.Imagine then the cars, which by the way didnt set the world on fire back when they were invented.

Botom line is, we dont know what we want until it is presented to us.If you are worried about a "tradicional gaming experience", which by the way changed radically over the course of the years, then there is always the PC for that.I personally dont want the industry to stagnate.

3D is terrible and dead, lol.

You are off topic to the initial discussion which was included peripherals as innovation.  I am not against innovation just mandatory bundling.

The traditional gaming experience has not changed at all except for great innovations that have progressed it yet kept it the same.  It has always been a controller and a monitor.  Innovations; graphics enhancements, controller shape, controller triggers, analogue sticks, controller touchpad, wireless controller, rest modes, autosaves, online multiplayer.  These sorts of things have made gaming better but it is essentially the same. Yes, have innovation but people are buying these systems for a reason.  Peripherals are best kept optional, if they are the future then they will do well as a standalone purchase.