7th gen vs 8th gen

[Azzanation]

SvennoJ said:

Azzanation said:

Why?

I can answer that, posted it earlier in the thread as well.

1. PSVR, made me feel like a kid again. Hundreds of little gems to play and many unforgettable experiences. Motion controls finally made sense and for a first gen product it exceeded all my expectations. So much I can't play horror games without VR anymore.

2. 7th gen was plagued with brown is realism, 8th gen brought color back to games.

3. 3x RROD, 2x Ylod, 1x Wii Disc drive failure, ps3 controllers all broke, 360 battery packs failed, Wii battery packs failed, horrible gen for HW.

4. Black crush and washed out games, annoying gamma shift on 360, limited/full RGB dilemma on ps3, Wii composite video argh.

7th gen had good games as well, but a lot felt like rehashes in 'HD', well 720p at most. Not great with a 1080p tv, always scaling issues. Text too small to read or outside the 'safe area'. The objectives in Dead rising were not visible on my HD ready tv, outside the visible screen. The text on the phone in GT4 was not readable. Skyrim on ps3, no need to explain that one. Kinect shovel ware, 8th gen rightfully quickly ditched Kinect. Eye toy... It had one sort of fun game.

8th gen had better games imo, Botw, HZD, Death stranding, God of War, Driveclub, GT Sport, Elite Dangerous, Forza Horizon 4, The Witcher 3, RDR2, Alien Isolation, SotC remake, Detroit: Become Human, Spiderman, Streets of Rage 3, Infinifactory, Nex Machina, Dirt Rally, The last Guardian, Life is Strange, Pixeljunk Nom Nom Galaxy, Grim Fandango remastered, Transistor, Child of Light, Infamous 2nd son, Resogun, plus about a hundred PSVR titles.

7th gen is the brown shooter era to me plagued with lots of hardware problems and unwanted upscaling noise. Sure, you can play them all again this gen with better resolution and fps, but all the textures and polygons are still made for 512MB ram, and the brown colors stay as well.

I am sure the list you mention can easily be bigger however last gen was a different story and let me explain.

Not only were all 3 console makers delivering on all fronts with amazing quality and IPs. 3rd party was also on another level to what we got in the 8th gen.

Major companies like EA brought us trilogy's like Mass Effect and Dead Space etc. 7th gen wasn't flooded with remasters or serviced styled Multiplayer only games like the Battlefront 1 and 2 series.

8th Gen was plagued with many issues that brought bad buisness practices like Pay to Win and gambling mechanics being more common in games, and now PSN and Nintendo now charging for online Multiplayer access and the trend of reselling older games due to the lack of BC.

8th gen was a graphic showcase, that's undoubted, however that seems to be the trend with a lot of games. Less innovation but prettier graphics. Id also argue that BOTW was a last gen game built around the WiiU and delayed to release on the Switch launch.

7th gen was an arm wrestle on who can make great games across all platforms, 8th gen became an arm wrestle on who can deliever great graphics.

I brought VR this gen, i agree its amazing but only for a few games like ALYX other wise i would be happy with out. Though that is just my personal opinion.

Last edited by Azzanation - on 12 May 2021