Sony has a time machine and got DDR5 ram?

GPU's manufacturers are already using DDR5 ram for years

Sorry I couldn't read that since the thread is over.

Amazing comeback :P

DDR5 memory has been too cost prohibitive to use more than 2gb in most cards up until two years ago. Even today, most cards only go up to 3gb. 

I only listed the rumored games that are almost certain to come out this year.

In terms of downloadable games, most of those that I've noticed are indies that are already available at places like Steam. Retail is dominated by cross gen games like Battlefield 4, Call of Duty Ghosts, Thief, Tomb Raider, Spider Man 4, etc. In older generations, most newer games were full retail, not ports, remakes, or cross generation. 

I think he means all the PC ports too 

@OP: this gen is going great! Haven't turned on my 360 since 2013 while gaining almost 10k gamerscore worth of achievements from Xbox One alone.

I agree with you about the Wii U, it has an excellent catalog, it's just the other two don't seem to be doing quite as strongly in terms of brand new, original, next-gen content. It is changing fast, and I'm sure by the end of the year this gen will be in full steam. 

Hardware always comes in hot, always has always will. Even the Wii U that uses older tech came in hot. But the difference is that modern engines are designed to be scalable across different hardware, and easily portable. It's far to expensive to remake everything from scratch these days so they design engine tech to be evolved over time, that is why Naughty Dog are using the same engine that Uncharted 1 uses on the PS4 games just polished up with new tech added in. Even the big new engines like Unreal Engine 4 have been in development for years (Tim Sweeney started on UE4 in 2003 by himself and had a small team on it by 2008 and became available to license in 2012) all tech in games is designed looking towards the future. And the fact that the consoles are mostly using existing PC tech and architectures just makes it easier. Sony especially has made the PS4 much easier to work with, shipping with competent tools and well documented system. Unlike for example the PS3 that shipped with all the technical documentation in Japanese only with buggy tools, and a crazy architecture that no one understood at the time.

The reason that there are fewer games from big publishers on current gen consoles has nothing to do with tech. It is because the industry has changed and there was a serious lack of confidence in the traditional console space. Console software has been on a downward trend for several years with sales being focused on fewer and fewer big titles, plus PC, social and mobile especially in terms of the F2P model were exploding in popularity. and the only indicator for hardware they really had was the Wii U which was slow out the gate. This led to publishers ever bigger focus on to big to fail lowest common denominator tent-pole releases, trying to immitate Activision's wildly successful model. This naturally means few big titles but the ones that are coming are bigger than ever before, and as the budgets get bigger so does the risk of faliure which means a lot of hedging so that means cross gen as publisher couldn't predict that PS4 and XBOne would be off to such a strong start hardware wise when they made the decisions keep in mind games take 2+ years to develop and most of the big ones 3-5 and decisions on platforms are made at least a year out from launch.

So we have a climate where publishers are focusing resources into fewer bigger games in fewer franchises. Too scared to ditch old hardware for fear that the console market could be shrinking. With other new platforms offering lucritive business models with higher ROI steeling more resources. Yea it's not really surprising there is a shortage of big titles for current gen hardware. It's not like the warning signs werent there, tho now that the harwardware is doing well there will probably be a renewed investment in console games.

and if you don't belive me

Because it's not?
It's the best open to a gen yet for both MS and Sony.

Anyone care to total up the number of games available for each platform within the first two quarters of release?

I won't bother, but I'm guessing the numbers are probably comparable, if not even favorable to the 8th gen due largely to DD titles.

At this point, the argument will regress to "DD titles don't count, only $60 retail games count" which is a matter of subjective opinion.

Failing that, the argument will fall back on "these titles on previous platforms count as a strong line up but these titles don't count on these platforms" which is again, a matter of subjective opinion.

While we're on the topic of subjective opinions, since this seems to me what this thread is really about, the XB360 had no games until Gears of War launched. That's about a year before it had a single game I "had to play." That's me. Prior to that the platform had nothing that made me want to buy an XB360. The PS3 was really just an inexpensive (in relative terms considering first gen BD players were $1,000) BD player with a handful of decent titles. I distinctly remember playing a lot of Resistance and Motorstorm with a bunch of demos of games that weren't worth $60, and a fair amount of PS Store titles for almost 9 months (fall of 2007) before I started seeing titles that started to justify a $600 console. The Wii? I played a ton of Wii Sports just like everyone else. I remember playing some crappy games I actually paid money for but was treated to a Metroid game and a much improved port of a Zelda game. Does that mean that it had the best first year line up? Maybe under a really biased point of view using questionable logic.

With regards to the PS4 and content; I have no complaints. I really like it and already have a back catalog of games to catch up with 5 months in. As a disclaimer, I don't play games 20 hours or more a week, so between retail game purchases, downloads, PSN + titles, I already have enough titles that I really have to pick and choose which ones deserve what gaming hours I do spend each week (Resogun and Infamous received the lion's share).

At this point, I have absolutely no motivation to buy another console other than to play a specific single title when it comes out (nothing yet). So clearly, this is not a "lack of quality content issue." My issue is I have more content to play than I have time.