7th gen or 8th gen

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zeldaring said:

curl-6 said:

Yeah that was one of my favourite things about the 7th gen, the sheer number of standout new IPs.

In the span of a single generation we got the likes of Bioshock, Mass Effect, Xenoblade, Uncharted, Gears of War, Assassin's Creed, The Last Story, Bayonetta, Vanquish, Wii Sports, Dead Space, Alan Wake, Resistance, Motorstorm, Metro, Crysis, Portal... 

Because budgets hadn't grown so immense back then, it was more viable to take a risk on an entirely new IP.

Nier

fortnite

astro bot

control

days gone

evil within

horizon

ghosts of Tsushima 

bloodborne

sekiro

nioh

watch dogs 

cyber punk

I really see no difference in risk they both kind played it safe. like  the over the shoulder 3rd person shooter, and fps shooter were the hottest market at the time so what risk are we talking about here. lets not forget about VR which really was trying to take gaming to a whole new level of immersion but failed. 

Nier, Watch Dogs, and Evil Within were on PS3/360 too.

And IPs like Bioshock, Mass Effect, etc absolutely didn't play it safe; they didn't copy what was already popular, they forged their own style and identity.

The 8th gen did have some cool new IPs too; I did quite enjoy Splatoon, Hellblade, and Ori, but the 7th gen definitely had more standouts.