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if 2010 was last year in this cycle akin to previous gens do you belive its been a "lesser" of a generation that previous ones?

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IMO if 2010 was going to be the last year before the next bunch of consoles arrive, it certainly wouldnt have provided as many good games as previous gens going of pure numbers of titles availiable.

obviously this gen is going to last a long time and i expect there to be more good games this gen than last ones, im only talking relative to same timeframe.

do you agree!

For me yes. With the upcoming releases quality will continue to come. With the introduction of "proper" online gaming this generation has been uncomparable to previous and i for one have loved the expieriences.

I would be gutted if it ended in 2010 though.

Uhhhhhhhh

If we do that then w should only count last-gen releases up to 2005, right?

on a typical 5 year span yes.

You realize that that is a silly, silly criteria to put down, right? Two thirds of both generations launched a year or more after the first entrant, so we're only counting four years - four years - for two of the consoles in two different generations. This does not work.

More, the last generation kept havin great titles released up until a few months ago, so trying to set down an arbitrary timeframe in which to judge them seems, at best, an exercise in the pointless.

But to answer the question? No. No, this would not be a lesser generation. As an owner of all three consoles last gen, I can honestly say that I've had more fun with my Wii, my 360, and my DS than I had with th entire last generation put together. This gen has kicked last gen's ass.

That doesn't make any sense. If we're supposed to use a five year time frame then we should do so for each generation, meaning last generation starts on November 27th 1998(original release of the Dreamcast) and ends the on the same date in 2003, leaving Halo 2, MGS 3, FF XII, Kingdom Hearts 2, Twilight Princess, Persona 4 and a lot of other games out of consideration.

Yeah if we're not counting the likes of God of War and Shadow of the Colossus, it's not even a contest. This generation has curb-stomped the last one.

Ps1 dominated it's gen. Ps2 dominated it's gen also.

This gen is tight. Companies throwing hits at each other by stealing exclusives..etc.

This gen is better. HD goodness and proper online gaming. IN the games criteria, this gen fails.

Edit: My final thought, no it ain't better.

Look I appreciate a man who appreciates God Hand, but you're sending some mixed messages there.

Nah, not really. Some franchises haven't quite met their previous standards of last gen (DMC, GTA, RE, etc) but there's been a lot of great new IP's. Online gaming is way more prominent than last gen and there's DL games as well.