JimmyRustler
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Had good time with Killzone and AC Black Flag.... :-/
Consoles NEVER launch well. N64 launched with 1 fucking game worth owning. The PS2 is the last console to launch with even a decent lineup.
Graphical style fatigue.NSMBU is a fantastic game - it just suffered from franchise fatigue.
the first year was awful for PS4, but was amazing for Xbox one
PS4's first year had flops like killzone, Infamous, Drive club and Knack
where Xbox one's first year had Forza 5( i know it's not as good as the rest but still good) Dead rising 3, Titanfall, Sunset overdrive, Forza horizon 2, D4 and Halo MCC( not just a remaster, 5 MP games including 4 SP games)
in 2015 and 2016, the two consoles were kinda equal, but in 2017 PS4 ate the Xbox one alive
Bruh where is Resogun
It certainly didn't help that it launched in the same window as GT6. When you compare it to GTS in terms of content then FM5 wasn't that bad. It launched a few years earlier as a launch title while having similar amounts of content with a much shorter dev cycle.Forza Motorsport 5 (which was pretty barebones)
ps3 was even worse
Dreamcast launch is GOAT
Ps2 was pretty good too with SSX, ridge racer 5 and madden 2001.
But yes recent hardware launches have been terrible either for lack of games or hardware related issues.
Dreamcast = Awesome foreplay but.........premature ejaculation
PS2 = Lacklustre foreplay but........GODDAMNIT, THAT CLIMAX AND ORGASM OF A LIFETIME!!!
I was fine with the upscaled, reused graphics for NSMBU. It was that same fookin' music that killed it for me. Bah bah.Graphical style fatigue.
If it had a Galaxy theme, or maybe even Sunshine theme... The Mario World theme was just too vanilla on the surface.
I'm not going to try and argue the WiiU launch was red hot lol but at least personally, I did enjoy it. If you list everything, there's tons of ports but if I just consider what I bought: Nintendoland & NSMBU were great first party (I would have taken a Nintendoland 2 over 1-2 switch any day), Sonic Racing was a good kart racer, & Skylanders Giants ended up being one of the very first games my kid and & I played through together. Not bad for day 1 honestly.
8th Gen has really brought us some great tittles through the years: Uncharted 4, Super Smash Bros. for Wii U, Gears of War 4, Horizon: Zero Dawn, Splatoon, Forza Horizon 3...but man... the launches were really really bad:
Playstation 4 Launch Titles:
Knack
PS2 maybe was the worst ever...
Yeah I got jealous of friends who got launch machines, but when I stood back and considered the actual launch line up....
I'd say the stand out is Nintendo Land in that it's not only great, but can never be ported to another system. That's extremely rare.
the first year was awful for PS4, but was amazing for Xbox one
PS4's first year had flops like killzone, Infamous, Drive club and Knack
where Xbox one's first year had Forza 5( i know it's not as good as the rest but still good) Dead rising 3, Titanfall, Sunset overdrive, Forza horizon 2, D4 and Halo MCC( not just a remaster, 5 MP games including 4 SP games)
in 2015 and 2016, the two consoles were kinda equal, but in 2017 PS4 ate the Xbox one alive
PS2 launched with R5, and TTT was still in March.AniHawk said:nah man ps2 was weak at launch. march 2000 had nothing for the machine.
Plus FM5 looked amazing. Playing a store demo in Paris (of all places) on launch with it running 1080p@60fps on the beautiful Prague track with the rumble triggers just blew me away. I knew I had to have a Xbox One aswell as a PS4 after the rocky E3 reveals that had tipped me towards the latter.It certainly didn't help that it launched in the same window as GT6. When you compare it to GTS in terms of content then FM5 wasn't that bad. It launched a few years earlier as a launch title while having similar amounts of content with a much shorter dev cycle.
Most Nintendo platforms launched with at least one killer game, and at least 1-2 other high quality ones.PS2 launched with R5, and TTT was still in March.
Not that it particularly matters - the only launch lineup that wasn't "maybe one game worth mentioning + a bunch of filler" was Vita, and that didn't do anything for the platform.
PS4 hit its stride on March 24, 2015, with the release of GOTF Bloodborne.Feels like for every console it took around 2-3 years to really get good. PS4 started hitting its stride within the last 12 months. Wii U's best year was 2014 when it launched in 2012.
I'd argue 3DS had a pretty terrible launch until 3D Land.
I don't remember the Vita's launch too well. I bought one 6 months in, though I remember people praising the launch line up.
I'm not sure what you'd consider Switch since the timing is weird and it's like the new handheld generation but also the console? Switch has been one of the best in about a decade or so. At least for my tastes.
I think it is a great launch. I had more than enough games to keep me busy until the second wave of games hit, unlike with the WiiU which was content starved for the entire history of the console, launch included.
Dreamcast launch is GOAT