It's been 5 months.

And the worst gen by far is Gen 2. It nearly destroyed the industry.

I just did - as illustrated by the fact that I said "for me" and "I'm" - not "for everyone".

I know. I was telling you what interests me

And that's good for you and everyone else that's interested.  Maybe after I see more at E3 I'll share those views but right now I'm leaning more towards the OP's.

This gen will be boring in terms of sales cause ps4 will dominate and WiiU will clearly be in last place. The only interesting thing that could happen is a X1 comeback similar to the ps3 but that seems unlikely.

*yawn*
Go shoo some skateboarding kids from the sidewalk...

Nostalgia really is the worst enemy for some people's enjoyment.

Excitement of last gen?

Waiting for Lair? Heavenly sword, to finish it in 6 hours. That was 8 months after release already. Ratchet and Clank in October finally was worth the wait. Beginning of the year was Motorstorm, F1 championship edition, MLB 07 and Ninja Gaidan sigma.
Same for 360, Dead rising in August broke the drought.

Don't let those rose tinted nostalgia glasses fool you. Mindblowingly gorgeous?



FF12 and God of war 2 were much better looking.

Maybe it's a case of once burned twice shy? After many generation changes you get used to it. The first year is never great. I guess with record breaking early sales more people will get to experience the traditional first year buyer's remorse. That's why you should never sell your old system to finance a launch system...

Since I have PC roots I don't care about gens and their phases, but I'm worried about the games. I feel like I have seen everything and there won't be exciting revelations in gaming anymore. But most importantly in the recent years several great series have been killed by turning them into action games (Hitman, Deus Ex, Tomb Raider, Splinter Cell...) - will those mistakes be corrected?

The party is rocking on Vita atm. So much 8th gen awesomeness it has forgotten to share ;)

3DS has had a decent couple of years before that too.

On the home console side I agree though. Loving Nintendo's 1st party stuff but its trickling through (great to jump into now though imo) and so far the X1 and PS4 boast an amazing FIFA and like 2 other games of note each. The worst part is looking down the pipeline there are only a couple of games currently slated in the next 6 no tbs that really excite me. So thank God Vita went full throttle in 2014.

Last gen was insanely exciting; in just it's first year the Wii changed the way games were played, 3D Mario and Zelda returned to greatness in Mario Galaxy and Twilight Princess, and Metroid Prime 3 set a new gold standard first person shooter control.

There's been nothing on any of the three 8th gen consoles as exciting as any of those games yet.