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I think what I struggled with consoles at the time was that suddenly every physical game needed installing. My 256gb PS3 and later on 320gb Xbox 360 lasted the whole generation without needing to delete anything if I didn't want to and I played a lot of PS Store and XBLA games. These were small downloads though. When I saw the PS4 had 500gb, I thought great! That will last for ages! Even with downloadable games, barely a handful of games could be installed and downloads/installs were very slow as this was before SSDs became mainstream!

When the games that interested me got bigger and bigger, I slowly lost interest as I felt I couldn't go between games as I wished anymore. I like to play a variety at any one time. Suddenly a console became a storage management weight on my desk, which ruined all the fun. And I was a university student at the time, so didn't have the time for it. So as a result, hardly any games on the PS4 side got played as it felt like I was always waiting for an install or a patch! It felt like I was always waiting on the home screen for something. Ironically that meant I had a lot more fun on the 2 systems that failed, PS Vita and Wii U, they were plug in and play. How a console should be! And some really undervalued games existed on both systems. Naturally, loved the Switch when that came out.

Only in more recent years have I realised how strong the library on PS4 actually was and luckily this generation is a bit of a dud, so I can play all those games I've missed instead. All those PS4 games look like new on PS5 and load/ install much faster! To me 5th, 6th and 7th generations will always be the best era in gaming though.



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While it's never a good thing to ruminate on things, I do believe gaming has been on a downward slide since the start of the seventh generation. When we all stood there, and there was a fork in the road, and we decided to take the left one? We should have taken the right one.



JackHandy said:

While it's never a good thing to ruminate on things, I do believe gaming has been on a downward slide since the start of the seventh generation. When we all stood there, and there was a fork in the road, and we decided to take the left one? We should have taken the right one.

The DLC Horse Armor in Oblivion in April 2006?



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PS5: 122 million (was 105 million, then 115 million) Xbox Series X/S: 38 million (was 60 million, then 67 million, then 57 million. then 48 million. then 40 million)

Switch 2: 120 million (was 116 million)

PS4: 120 mil (was 100 then 130 million, then 122 million) Xbox One: 51 mil (was 50 then 55 mil)

3DS: 75.5 mil (was 73, then 77 million)

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Wman1996 said:
JackHandy said:

While it's never a good thing to ruminate on things, I do believe gaming has been on a downward slide since the start of the seventh generation. When we all stood there, and there was a fork in the road, and we decided to take the left one? We should have taken the right one.

The DLC Horse Armor in Oblivion in April 2006?

That was certainly one of the left road's earliest attractions lol



I will say I do prefer Gen 7 still, as I find PS3, 360, and Wii to all be better than their successors, but I really did undersell PS4/XBO, they actually do have a lot to offer.

Yeah, a lot of crappy trends did proliferate that gen like aggressive monetization, live service games, etc, but there's still tons of quality titles that I missed.

Most recently played Quantum Break and Battlefield 1 and really enjoyed both.



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Nothing can beat gens 6 and 7



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