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XtremeBG said:
The 8th gen in the same point in time, were the same compare to 7th gen .. 7th gen was the peak of both exclusive games, quantity and quolity, and also even mediocre games being way more and way better than there were for the 8th gen. Every following generation becomes more and more trash in terms of games, and the peak was 7th gen. Heck even the 6th gen was better than the 8th and 9th gen. Nowadays most of the games are multilplayer bullshits, microtransactions, and online only, There is no so much hidden gems and good games and exclusives like there were in the 7th gen. Then out of 100 games, 95 were single player focused or at least had one, and 80-85 percent of them were good to play on 8th gen and 9th gen 70-80% are multiplayer or online focused, microtransactions, and bullshits as a whole. and no more than 20% are singleplayer, out of which there is real small number of games which are at least good and are okay to play on and let's not forget that many of those singleplayer games are not something new but instead they are remasters and remakes, opposite to what games were back in 7th gen (or the biggest part of it). The difference is huge. And even exclusives took a big hit too. On both xbox and PS. Let alone the fact that many of the franchises and series we know today were at their peak and showed their best versions exactly there .. COD, NFS, BF, FIFA even (of course not by sales, but by pure hapiness of the customers with what product they had in comparison to the last couple of years) new IPs too.. 7th gen just was the peak of the console scene. Not only because only of the games themselves, but even the consoles. There is no such interesting generation like the 7th. Every year we had new models, every year for the first half of the generation we had pricecuts, we had real E3 conferences, corporate people talked infront of the mic from both companies, things happened. Thing were changing. And they were dynamic. Exclusives changed hands, there were more OMG moments in general than any other generations. The console market and manufacturers evolved much more than any other gen. I want this again. So, if we have to point one that deserves the lead, that should be exactly the 7th gen .. although maybe it's exactly why is in last place .. because when you are struggling then you show the best of what you can (like Sony and MS in the 7th gen). |
Yeah I'd also place the 7th gen above the 8th and (so far) the 9th, for similar reasons.
PS3 and 360 were Sony/MS at their best in my opinion, and Wii while not quite Nintendo's best was still a great console. There were tons of cool new IPs, games didn't take like 6 years to come out, business practises were less scummy, and there was more originality.
PS5/Xbox Series don't even really feel like a new gen to me, they just feel like a PS4 Pro Pro and Xbox One XX. Hopefully that will change.
