Team Gen 7 here for sure.
There were so many fantastic experiences during Generation 7: Bioshock, Mario Galaxy, Uncharted, Assassin’s Creed, Gears, Fallout, the Arkham games, COD’s peak and tons more. Seeing such nice looking games in much higher resolution, the Wii’s pointer controls, the Virtual Console, the birth of touch screen gaming... every system during the 7th gen was good and welcome in its own way. Performance may not have always been great, but creativity certainly had my interest.
Generation 8, on the other hand, is my least favorite generation since before the NES: 3DS/WiiU’s concepts both flopped, I didn’t care for God of War’s new direction, the story in the TLOU2 was terrible, smallest jump from gen-to-gen (to my eyes), less games per series due to longer dev times, droughts on WiiU were unprecedented, and the state of gaming in general just lost my interest compared to Gen 7, save for Resident Evil. Spider-Man on the PS4 and hand-held Zelda returning to form were some pleasant surprises though, and I did enjoy playing several of my favorite 7th gen titles with way better performance via remasters but overall I was fine with leaving Gen 8 behind.
