Every time I hear people decry this generation being the worst and how gaming is doomed it always has to do with expectations around ‘next gen’. People feel as if they’ve hit the end of the road or the hype isn’t there, which in their minds may be right.
Xbox had one of their “biggest showcases ever” and I feel like that should have been enough to calm peoples fears but I guess the feeling didn’t last. Maybe the reality that a lot of those games were either A. Unimpressive visually and conceptually, B. Still feel like a long ways away/cgi trailers or C. The general inconsistency of Microsofts releases over the years have started to settle in. It’s becoming clear that Microsoft and their games can’t really carry the console generation even with these ‘banger’ showcases they have every year.
It feels like everyone is just frustrated that Sony won’t show the next 3 years of gaming they got cooking. Let’s face it, everyone deep down inside even if they don’t want to admit it knows that the big Sony studios are cooking, even if naughty doesn’t release a game next year it will be the year after and so on and so forth so it really comes down to patience and not knowing. The core gaming audience have gotten so used to getting their toes sucked every year and having a deluge of new game trailers to get them hype. Then we heard non-stop complaining last gen about games being shown too early and the same games being shown year after year.
look at the excitement for GTA6, thats what people are waiting on and they know only Playstation Studios are really capable of investing big budgets like that into single player games still. People want to be blown away so it really just comes down to Naughty Dog, Guerrilla, Santa Monica, Suckerpunch and maybe a couple other studios that are gonna do it for most of these people. There’s no 3rd party developers that really match the consistency and quality of SIE anymore aside from Rockstar and CDPR.
I also think Nintendo shares some blame also. I think the “core” gamers were bored of the Switch by 2021. It felt like everyone was waiting for Tears of The Kingdom and once it came out there was nothing left. Even before ToTK came out everyone was hoping it would release on a Switch Pro or Switch 2. 3 years later…. 8 years is a long time for a generation especially one that never got a mid-gen upgrade outside of a screen. The people who have had a nintendo since 2017 are exhausted waiting for a new 3d mario, mario kart, smash bros, metroid, etc.
Especially when the Switch already felt kind of ancient by release.
I think by this time next year all this FUD around gaming will seem silly. What I’m really saying is this isn’t really about a lack of exciting games it’s more so a lack of exciting marketing and fan fare.
Xbox had one of their “biggest showcases ever” and I feel like that should have been enough to calm peoples fears but I guess the feeling didn’t last. Maybe the reality that a lot of those games were either A. Unimpressive visually and conceptually, B. Still feel like a long ways away/cgi trailers or C. The general inconsistency of Microsofts releases over the years have started to settle in. It’s becoming clear that Microsoft and their games can’t really carry the console generation even with these ‘banger’ showcases they have every year.
It feels like everyone is just frustrated that Sony won’t show the next 3 years of gaming they got cooking. Let’s face it, everyone deep down inside even if they don’t want to admit it knows that the big Sony studios are cooking, even if naughty doesn’t release a game next year it will be the year after and so on and so forth so it really comes down to patience and not knowing. The core gaming audience have gotten so used to getting their toes sucked every year and having a deluge of new game trailers to get them hype. Then we heard non-stop complaining last gen about games being shown too early and the same games being shown year after year.
look at the excitement for GTA6, thats what people are waiting on and they know only Playstation Studios are really capable of investing big budgets like that into single player games still. People want to be blown away so it really just comes down to Naughty Dog, Guerrilla, Santa Monica, Suckerpunch and maybe a couple other studios that are gonna do it for most of these people. There’s no 3rd party developers that really match the consistency and quality of SIE anymore aside from Rockstar and CDPR.
I also think Nintendo shares some blame also. I think the “core” gamers were bored of the Switch by 2021. It felt like everyone was waiting for Tears of The Kingdom and once it came out there was nothing left. Even before ToTK came out everyone was hoping it would release on a Switch Pro or Switch 2. 3 years later…. 8 years is a long time for a generation especially one that never got a mid-gen upgrade outside of a screen. The people who have had a nintendo since 2017 are exhausted waiting for a new 3d mario, mario kart, smash bros, metroid, etc.
Especially when the Switch already felt kind of ancient by release.
I think by this time next year all this FUD around gaming will seem silly. What I’m really saying is this isn’t really about a lack of exciting games it’s more so a lack of exciting marketing and fan fare.
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