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KingdomHeartsFan on 01 September 2014
Mr.Playstation said:
KingdomHeartsFan said:
Mr.Playstation said:
I agree wholeheartedly with you. If only it wasn't for all those publishers saying that they couldn't " innoviate" without more powerfull hardware. The release dates for the Ps4/ Xbox one should have been somewhere along the lines of fall 2015, that's the final holiday season were games are going to be mostly multiplatform with ps3 and Xbox 360.

If the consoles came out in 2015 then there would be cross gen games til 2016-2017...

Highly doubt it, of course cross gen games would have existed but not up to the rate which they exist now. Even though the last console generation was a long one, I disagree that it was long overdue. When a console is dire need of a successor, ounce that succesor is released it will quickly be forgotten ( Gamecube, Wii, OG Xbox, Wii U). The true seventh gen consoles have by far not been forgotten, atleast not at the rate of the consoles mentioned.

Your forgetting AAA games cost way more to make, devs are gonna play it safe and come out with their game on every console they can make a profit on, its way more risky now.



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small44 on 01 September 2014

You are right
1-old gen still sold well before next gen was announced
2-old gen still expensive so a price cut would boost old gen more longer
3-Third party released a lot of cross-gen games



PS4 - over 100 millions let's say 120m
Xbox One - 70m
Wii U - 25m

Vita - 15m if it will not get Final Fantasy Kingdoms Heart and Monster Hunter 20m otherwise
3DS - 80m

iceboy151 on 01 September 2014

Nope, I'm tired of the 7th gen.



 

                          

 

Danman27 on 01 September 2014

Next gen came at the perfect time.



LudicrousSpeed on 01 September 2014

Wii a worse idea than Virtual Boy? Wii Music? LOL

A lot of people make a big deal about a supposed massive power difference between PS4 and Xbone but at the end of the day they are both pretty underwhelming power wise. But even if they were both dream hardware machines, you'd STILL have cross gen games, and you'd still have 1080p or lower res and 30 fps. With more power cones more push from developers. They will still see a tradeoff between higher res/ frame rate and more beautiful games and take it.

Last gen was too long though. I am ok with weaker hardware if it means we see even a little bit of stuff we couldn't see last gen.



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STRYKIE on 01 September 2014
adriane23 said:

Either you guys are too young to remember, or you have really short memories. There were cross gen games for gens 4-5, 5-6, and 6-7 as well. Even when gaming went from 8 bit to 16 bit, there were cross gen games.

Even if the X1 and Ps4 waited another year, you'd still see cross gen games and there would still be games that struggle to reach 60fps/1080p.

This.

The Dreamcast and 360 in their infancies were serial cross-gen port ambassadors. It just so happens that this gen, two systems with significant mass market appeal (let's be serious here, the 360 wasn't being taken seriously as a major competitor until $599) have been released simultaneously, so both will be suspectible to it.





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Captain_Tom on 01 September 2014
Mr.Playstation said:
I agree wholeheartedly with you. If only it wasn't for all those publishers saying that they couldn't " innoviate" without more powerfull hardware. The release dates for the Ps4/ Xbox one should have been somewhere along the lines of fall 2015, that's the final holiday season were games are going to be mostly multiplatform with ps3 and Xbox 360.

But they couldn't.  You want to play BF4 with only 24 players?  Be my guest, but the rest of us will enjoy our 64 player battles.



Captain_Tom on 01 September 2014
adriane23 said:

Either you guys are too young to remember, or you have really short memories. There were cross gen games for gens 4-5, 5-6, and 6-7 as well. Even when gaming went from 8 bit to 16 bit, there were cross gen games.

Even if the X1 and Ps4 waited another year, you'd still see cross gen games and there would still be games that struggle to reach 60fps/1080p.


There were TONS of them, and yet some people here act like this is new.  LOL some people have no long-term memory...



Wiibaron on 01 September 2014

Saying motion control was a fad is just dumb.  Both competitors copied it after a couple years and the new 8th gen consoles all use it now. It is the standard now, and will be even in the 10th gen.  Same as the fad of rumble.



zorg1000 on 01 September 2014

ya i agree, Wii U had a horrible post launch drought with almost every exclusive getting delayed. They should have supported Wii a little longer by having New Super Mario Bros U (renamed NSMB Wii 2), Pikmin 3 and Lego City Undercover as late life Wii titles and delayed Wii U to Fall 2013. Major launch exclusive could have been Super Mario 3D World, Wind Waker HD and Nintendo Land, this would also have allowed them to release the Deluxe bundle at $299 from the start.

The majority of PS4/One games are either remastered ports or cross-gen titles, if they waited until this fall to release then we could have seen more exclusives and 8th gen only games hit these consoles.



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