It is not that bad when you think about it, but excitement wise, i agree with you.

Nintendo started badly, XBone looks just as a expensive and weaker version of PS4 and, truth be told, the greatest thing about PS4 is the fact it is not a Xbox.

SONY didn't put up something exciting, they just made less mistakes than the other two and that was enought, even though they added paid multiplayer.

The 8th gen has been going for 17 months, not 5.

I still don´t have a WiiU, but the other two I enjoy.

I'm pretty bored by this gen already. Outside of a very small few companies I don't much like western AAA games in the first place. I don't really see them breaking out of their boxes and making something really bold, new or compelling for me. That isn't to say that the games wont improve they most certainly have and will. They will be far more gorgeous to boot.

I see the 7th gen to the 8th gen being like the Uncharted series. In most peoples opinions it got better because they improved and streamlined the shooting elements further. I wasn't too enamored by that stuff in the first place and I feel I got less of the other elements that I was looking for out of U2 and 3 even if the games got better. Nothing announced yet seems to break that feeling.

Watching portables crash and burn has broken my heart. I didn't expect much from home consoles but to be disappointed there as well really smarts.

I agree completely. This gen isn't exciting at all. I mean last E3 sucked as well across the board. The highlight was Sony giving a price and not doing DRM, whoopty damn doo. No games have taken this gen by storm, an all feel like a been there done that.

You can just feel the emptiness.

I completely agree with the OP, even though I have already bought that killer machine X1 and am enjoying it quite much. Thing is, apart from WiiU (which in its concept feels more next-Gen than X1 or PS4) it feels as though we are bying these new machines to continue playing games from the 7th Gen, only with a higher pixel count.

the 5th Gen introduces 3D in a big way, the 6th Gen came with DVD, hard drives and three strong console developers. The 7th Gen introduces HD in a big way and the uniqueness of motion gaming. But now, what is special about 8th Gen? Could it be the introduction of apps in console gaming?

Well, it could be the games. Naw that's crazy talk! Everyone knows it's all about the gimmicks!

What is special about 8th gen? Isn't anyone the least bit excited for VR?

I just finished Beyond 2 souls (awesome last couple of hours if you can stomach the thou shalt go where the camera is pointing 'gameplay') and watched the dark sorcerer demo afterwards on the big screen. It remains to be seen how much of the claim running on a ps4 actually proves to be true, but it kept fooling me into believing that there were life actors on a virtual set. I had to remind myself that it was all rendered, I think it was anyway.


I'm still excited what 8GB of ram can do for games. No more annoyingly small limits in Viva Pinata, small maps in From dust, everything resetting 1 block behind you in GTA, more dynamic worlds. I haven't been excited for E3 for years. This year I'm actually looking forward to June.

Technically I've found this generation boring, but that's because it's the first gaming generation I've experienced as a boring adult instead of an excited kid looking into a magical world filled with limitless possibilities.

Don't grow up. It's a trap.

As others have mentioned, this generation seems to be about refinement more than anything truly new. After all, the excitement about Sony's E3 conference was mainly that things were staying the same.

The refined user experience of turning on the Xbox with voice from the other room and the system signing me in and being ready to go in the by the time I sit down is very cool (It makes signing in and loading up a game, loading up the save, etc., feel very last gen), but it is not as much of a quantum shift as achievements/trophies, HD graphics, cross-game chat, wireless controllers, etc., were last generation.