Ok this post may upset some of you, i sincerely hope not.
I started gaming at the age of the genesis or the mega drive depending on which side of the Atlantic Ocean you are in, i have owned throughout the years, several game consoles from the genesis to the most recent PS4, so i have seen this gaming landscape change, but not for the good, ok i mean yeah for the good until like the ps2 age what gen was that? 6th gen? from that gen on while in the ps2 era great games were still coming out, the gaming industry was transforming at a rapid pace, and transforming in a bad way if i may add.
Back then you had games, you had amazing games, the industry was changing but that didn't affect games at least for another 5 to 6 years, and great games were coming out, games that were finished and extensively tested for example, games that were fun, and were not always the same, back in that era I had a lot of fun with my ps2 and with my xbox, the xbox was an amazing machine no doubt, and the homebrew on that thing was glorious :)
fast forward 5 or 6 years, thousand of studios and publishers disappeared because big publishers were absorbing everything like an angry monster, consoles with an internet connection were becoming a thing, and all this unfortunately would be a problem in the near future.
The xbox was released and the ps3 was releaesed, and cocky sony was at work, here lets price our machine at 600 or 700 dollars why not, we made the best console till date with the ps2 why not rip consumers off now? And after this they went downhill only really picking up around 2010, while the xbox maintained its steady growth, and Nintendo and it's wii took the gaming industry by storm.
But over here we started seeing the shady tactics happening, DLC, pay to win, disc dlc, unfinished games, broken games, false promisses, awful hardware, before this 7th gen hit the stores no one has ever seen such a big amount of hardware failures, the only console that was immune to this was really the wii, the first hardware reviews of the ps3 and mainly the xbox were pure hardware nightmares, more than 60% of failure rates in the first two years for the xbox360, and it wasn't much better on the ps3 side, all the changes in technology the last few 6 or 7 years culminated in bad hardware, worst software, bigger profits for publishers and those same publishers ripping people off still.
It was mostly this until this gen started, and oh god it started in a bad way, what Microsoft wanted to do with the Xbox One was the worst consumer rape of all time, a console that had to be connected to the internet 24/7 to even work, what kind of shady tactic is this? wanted to play a single player game? connect it to the internet! want to listen to music? connect it to the internet, what kind of DRM is this? want to take your console to a place that has no internet? you can't play anything! and this is the best, in 6 or 7 years when a new gen of consoles comes out when they shut down the server for the xbox one, your console would be a brick! it would not work anymore ever!!!! of course people didn't initially see through this, but a revolt on gaming sites and the worst E3 of all time for microsoft, where sony actually made fun of their draconian sharing system, and the ratio of pre-orders of ps4 to xbox-one of like 10-1, Microsoft went silent for two weeks and two weeks later they announced they would give up on all those plans and just create a normal console, this was the first ...
Ok this post may upset some of you, i sincerely hope not.
I started gaming at the age of the genesis or the mega drive depending on which side of the Atlantic Ocean you are in, i have owned throughout the years, several game consoles from the genesis to the most recent PS4, so i have seen this gaming landscape change, but not for the good, ok i mean yeah for the good until like the ps2 age what gen was that? 6th gen? from that gen on while in the ps2 era great games were still coming out, the gaming industry was transforming at a rapid pace, and transforming in a bad way if i may add.
Back then you had games, you had amazing games, the industry was changing but that didn't affect games at least for another 5 to 6 years, and great games were coming out, games that were finished and extensively tested for example, games that were fun, and were not always the same, back in that era I had a lot of fun with my ps2 and with my xbox, the xbox was an amazing machine no doubt, and the homebrew on that thing was glorious :)
fast forward 5 or 6 years, thousand of studios and publishers disappeared because big publishers were absorbing everything like an angry monster, consoles with an internet connection were becoming a thing, and all this unfortunately would be a problem in the near future.
The xbox was released and the ps3 was releaesed, and cocky sony was at work, here lets price our machine at 600 or 700 dollars why not, we made the best console till date with the ps2 why not rip consumers off now? And after this they went downhill only really picking up around 2010, while the xbox maintained its steady growth, and Nintendo and it's wii took the gaming industry by storm.
But over here we started seeing the shady tactics happening, DLC, pay to win, disc dlc, unfinished games, broken games, false promisses, awful hardware, before this 7th gen hit the stores no one has ever seen such a big amount of hardware failures, the only console that was immune to this was really the wii, the first hardware reviews of the ps3 and mainly the xbox were pure hardware nightmares, more than 60% of failure rates in the first two years for the xbox360, and it wasn't much better on the ps3 side, all the changes in technology the last few 6 or 7 years culminated in bad hardware, worst software, bigger profits for publishers and those same publishers ripping people off still.
It was mostly this until this gen started, and oh god it started in a bad way, what Microsoft wanted to do with the Xbox One was the worst consumer rape of all time, a console that had to be connected to the internet 24/7 to even work, what kind of shady tactic is this? wanted to play a single player game? connect it to the internet! want to listen to music? connect it to the internet, what kind of DRM is this? want to take your console to a place that has no internet? you can't play anything! and this is the best, in 6 or 7 years when a new gen of consoles comes out when they shut down the server for the xbox one, your console would be a brick! it would not work anymore ever!!!! of course people didn't initially see through this, but a revolt on gaming sites and the worst E3 of all time for microsoft, where sony actually made fun of their draconian sharing system, and the ratio of pre-orders of ps4 to xbox-one of like 10-1, Microsoft went silent for two weeks and two weeks later they announced they would give up on all those plans and just create a normal console, this was the first meltdown of this gen, Sony acted like the good guy, but hey guys, don't think they wouldn't do the same, Sony would do exactly this, but they got scared because of the reaction people showed to the xbox, so they went back on their decision, as for the flaws of last gen, they continue to exist, pay to win, DLC, meaningless DLC, and unfinished games still exist, the bad hardware though seems to be gone, which is a good thing.
About the future, to be honest i belive this is the last console gen that we will own games, next gen games will be streamed from the company servers, also Sony will not make a ps5 i am sure, gaming will be on their Bravia Tvs, and this will make sense since games will be streamed there won't be a need for a very good hardware, a tv+streaming will be the next thing for gaming, as for microsoft i don't know what they will do, probably something similar, and since the Xbox one isn't doing particularly well and there were talks that microsoft would kill the xbox brand, i really have no idea what will happen, as for nintendo, it is really hard to predict what they are going to do.
In the end we will have more broken games no more consoles no more fisical games no more games on the console itself, gaming will be a service, then gaming will decline again, people will stop playing games and buying games, then the industry will wonder what did they do wrong, in time probably they will be back to its roots and make fisical games etc etc, but that would be in a long long future.
Anyways that's my wall of text, but i am just disapointed on how the industry works now so, this is what i see happening in the future, god forbid it may be worst than what i expect.
Ok this post may upset some of you, i sincerely hope not.
I started gaming at the age of the genesis or the mega drive depending on which side of the Atlantic Ocean you are in, i have owned throughout the years, several game consoles from the genesis to the most recent PS4, so i have seen this gaming landscape change, but not for the good, ok i mean yeah for the good until like the ps2 age what gen was that? 6th gen? from that gen on while in the ps2 era great games were still coming out, the gaming industry was transforming at a rapid pace, and transforming in a bad way if i may add.
Back then you had games, you had amazing games, the industry was changing but that didn't affect games at least for another 5 to 6 years, and great games were coming out, games that were finished and extensively tested for example, games that were fun, and were not always the same, back in that era I had a lot of fun with my ps2 and with my xbox, the xbox was an amazing machine no doubt, and the homebrew on that thing was glorious :)
fast forward 5 or 6 years, thousand of studios and publishers disappeared because big publishers were absorbing everything like an angry monster, consoles with an internet connection were becoming a thing, and all this unfortunately would be a problem in the near future.
The xbox was released and the ps3 was releaesed, and cocky sony was at work, here lets price our machine at 600 or 700 dollars why not, we made the best console till date with the ps2 why not rip consumers off now? And after this they went downhill only really picking up around 2010, while the xbox maintained its steady growth, and Nintendo and it's wii took the gaming industry by storm.
But over here we started seeing the shady tactics happening, DLC, pay to win, disc dlc, unfinished games, broken games, false promisses, awful hardware, before this 7th gen hit the stores no one has ever seen such a big amount of hardware failures, the only console that was immune to this was really the wii, the first hardware reviews of the ps3 and mainly the xbox were pure hardware nightmares, more than 60% of failure rates in the first two years for the xbox360, and it wasn't much better on the ps3 side, all the changes in technology the last few 6 or 7 years culminated in bad hardware, worst software, bigger profits for publishers and those same publishers ripping people off still.
It was mostly this until this gen started, and oh god it started in a bad way, what Microsoft wanted to do with the Xbox One was the worst consumer rape of all time, a console that had to be connected to the internet 24/7 to even work, what kind of shady tactic is this? wanted to play a single player game? connect it to the internet! want to listen to music? connect it to the internet, what kind of DRM is this? want to take your console to a place that has no internet? you can't play anything! and this is the best, in 6 or 7 years when a new gen of consoles comes out when they shut down the server for the xbox one, your console would be a brick! it would not work anymore ever!!!! of course people didn't initially see through this, but a revolt on gaming sites and the worst E3 of all time for microsoft, where sony actually made fun of their draconian sharing system, and the ratio of pre-orders of ps4 to xbox-one of like 10-1, Microsoft went silent for two weeks and two weeks later they announced they would give up on all those plans and just create a normal console, this was the first ...
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