I’ve been feeling like console generations don’t need to come as often as they do now and this only strenghtens my view.
I’m the opposite - I feel like the last 2 generations (including this one) have shown that generations are lasting too long now and need to go back to the 4-5 year length. The PS4 and XB1 were woefully underpowered the day they released, and barely managed to have games at higher resolutions than the previous generation. The current generation from day 1 has struggled to do stable 1080p/60 or 4K/30 with all bells and whistles, and now that we’re finally getting “next gen only” games they are sub-720p ffs.
Even shorter? What for? Games take so long to develop now, especially when targeting the highest resolutions, that many studios might not even get anything out in 4 years, or they might end up rushed if they do. They sure as hell wouldn’t end up with all the polish to take full advantage of the resolution.
In older generations, even the larger studios could manage to put out several games for them, and as they did they improved their skills with that platform, discovered more possibilities and optimized better. Longer generations will be better for gaming.
By your measure, the PS5 should be past half its gen. What does it have to show for it? Returnal, Ratchet & Clank and Demon’s Souls remake? Sure, we had a Pandemic, but there is also a bunch of other games for which the extra hardware is so unnecessary they could be released for the PS4? What good would there be in cutting it short so soon? Frankly I don’t think even the PS4 squeezed out everything it had to offer, which is why to this day multiplatform releases still come out for it.
Consoles were never the top grade of computing hardware, they are supposed to be affordable for regular people. Though PS5 and XSX are closer to the newest tech compared to general computers than any consoles before, all the more reason we don’t need to rush another generation.
10 years used to be the difference between entire new worlds of experiences, the NES and the Playstation 1 are 9 years apart. Today, with a PS4, I can run God of War Ragnarok, one of the latest and greatest games, the same that PS5 got. Meanwhile, Nintendo got by just fine with hardware that is even weaker.
Better hardware has its benefits, but we got to a point where the constraints of weaker hardware are not all that limiting, and the expectations to reach the best that better hardware can offer are already extremely demanding which means studios need more time. Time that is already becoming too much for some developers. So, again, what’s all this for? How does it makes for better games? Just to have the newest so we have newest?
I’m the opposite - I feel like the last 2 generations (including this one) have shown that generations are lasting too long now and need to go back to the 4-5 year length. The PS4 and XB1 were woefully underpowered the day they released, and barely managed to have games at higher resolutions than the previous generation. The current generation from day 1 has struggled to do stable 1080p/60 or 4K/30 with all bells and whistles, and now that we’re finally getting “next gen only” games they are sub-720p ffs.
Even shorter? What for? Games take so long to develop now, especially when targeting the highest resolutions, that many studios might not even get anything out in 4 years, or they might end up rushed if they do. They sure as hell wouldn’t end up with all the polish to take full advantage of the resolution.
In older generations, even the larger studios could manage to put out several games for them, and as they did they improved their skills with that platform, discovered more possibilities and optimized better. Longer generations will be better for gaming.
By your measure, the PS5 should be past half its gen. What does it have to show for it? Returnal, Ratchet & Clank and Demon’s Souls remake? Sure, we had a Pandemic, but there is also a bunch of other games for which the extra hardware is so unnecessary they could be released for the PS4? What good would there be in cutting it short so soon? Frankly I don’t think even the PS4 squeezed out everything it had to offer, which is why to this day multiplatform releases still come out for it.
What for? So we aren’t stuck with hardware that was already outdated on release for 8 years.
The PS4 still gets games because it has an install base of 100 million people to sell games to who are still spending money.
Consoles were never the top grade of computing hardware, they are supposed to be affordable for regular people. Though PS5 and XSX are closer to the newest tech compared to general computers than any consoles before, all the more reason we don’t need to rush another generation.
10 years used to be the difference between entire new worlds of experiences, the NES and the Playstation 1 are 9 years apart. Today, with a PS4, I can run God of War Ragnarok, one of the latest and greatest games, the same that PS5 got. Meanwhile, Nintendo got by just fine with hardware that is even weaker.
Better hardware has its benefits, but we got to a point where the constraints of weaker hardware are not all that limiting, and the expectations to reach the best that better hardware can offer are already extremely demanding which means studios need more time. Time that is already becoming too much for some developers. So, again, what’s all this for? How does it makes for better games? Just to have the newest so we have newest?