| The_Liquid_Laser said: Uhm, let's just forget most of this discussion, and focus on your concept of generations and game library. You know that the PS4 runs lots of generation 7 games like GTA5 and the Last of Us right? That doesn't make it generation 7. It also has plenty of games unique to it like God of War 4 and Spider-Man and Horizon Zero Dawn. That is what makes it a different generation. Some of the games have to be unique, but not all. |
Oh this one is easy.
Yes the PS4 has some PS3 ports. But thats akin to saying something is BC. If it were fully BC like say the XB1 that doesn't make it a 7th gen machine or the 360 an 8th gen machine.
The difference is that while the NS will run a good number of PS4/XB1 games. All that ends with the PS5/XB4. So if we find that it doesnt get a single game from the generation of the PS5/XB4, how can we say its in the same generation with them when the games it does/did get were from the PS4/XB1 generation?
Another way to look at it is using whatever the lead platform is for any given gen. Come the next gen, the lead platform for games will be either a PS5/XB4. And if games are made to run on those consoles with their specs in mind, it will be practically impossible to port that game to the NS. The tech divide is just too great. Its one thing hacking a game down from running on like 5GB of RAM to like 3GB. Its another thing hacking it down from like 12GB-16GB or even 20GB down to 3GB.
Last way to look at it..... if it gets like say 90% of its multiplats from the 8th gen library of games and only like 10% from the 9th gen, then its an 8th gen machine. Especially when its successor ends up getting 100% of its multiplats from the 9th gen library of games.
Last edited by Intrinsic - on 21 December 2018
