The thing is, I'm not exactly looking forward to next-gen in 2019. 2020 would be much better.
If these machines couldn't keep up with the growing video game tech, maybe they should stop making open world games or pushing the graphics to their limit.
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All of this is still happening.
this gen started pretty late for microsoft and sorta late for sony and nintendo. 3ds should have been 2010 and every other platform should have launched a year earlier.Boo. Too early. Rockstar hasnt even released a game yet, and Bethesda and Naughty Dog only have one title. Maybe this was always gonna be a transitional type of gen? I feel like it still has so much room.
But third parties are putting all their effort into MP games. That's sad.
this gen started pretty late for microsoft and sorta late for sony and nintendo. 3ds should have been 2010 and every other platform should have launched a year earlier.
2018 for sony would be good to help correct the massively long 7th gen. microsoft is stuck with 2019 at a minimum with xb1. switch is going to be on its own for a while like 3ds was, though vita came out just a year afterward.
That's dead wrong though. We're literally a week away from a month that will have 5 AAA sp third party games. Nearly a game a week.
Are they original? No, they're all sequels, but they're clearly sp focused.
Microsoft and Sony released PS4 and Xbox One a week apart in November 2013. If anything, I think that Wii U, PS4 and Xbox One launched a YEAR TOO EARLY. Just look at how barren and empty 2013 and 2014 were for all three consoles.
No way is Sony going to release PS5 in 2018. Too many games being released for PS4 in 2018 so why would they release PS5 in the same year? I think a 7 year run for PS4/PS4 Pro is good and exactly why Sony released the Pro as an extension to the generation. 2018 would defeat the purpose of the Pro as well. 7 years for PS4, PS5 launches in that 7th year with PS4 being manufactured for another three years to give it it's ten year run before they end production.
Microsoft would be 2021 at the earliest in my opinion with a rare outside chance at 2020. No way Microsoft spent all that money to kill off the X in two years. If that's the case, Microsoft would have been far better off waiting a year and making X their true next gen console and leave the Slim as the brand for Xbox One.
Yes. You are correct, my statement is toward the next generation. Games are difficult to make, they take a lot of time and money. The games that we are experiencing now are products of years of development. Its not for free the amount of remakes, ports, enhanced editions of prior games in this gen, don't you think? This generation of video games (for me) is one of the greatest. But look and gaming right now. A lot of MP games in the future.
To the people who have better insight into how game development and console launches work:
Do these job postings suggest that developers are already receiving preliminary briefings on an incoming generation? Does this mean Sony or Microsoft has begun talking to Square-Enix about new hardware, even if in only the vaguest and initial of ways? Or is this likely more just that Tabata's team and Avalanche are, like a lot of people who follow video games, abstractly expecting a new console generation to potentially begin in a few years and want to be prepared?
they were late because all 7th gen systems were in pretty sharp decline by 2012. 2013 was even worse. they werent able to make a nice transiton and have a legacy platform earn a good chunk of change while new platforms established themselves. this hit nintendo pretty hard but it also affected sony and their handheld line too. it would be better for all parties if they could expand their brands by keeping ps4 and xb1 sales going somewhat strong into 2020 while their successors are already out. it is effectively what nintendo did with gba and ds and 3ds and switch. sony had great success with ps2 after ps3 too.
I mean maybe, but if that happens then the industry will crash. You can't just make multiplayer games, and they know this.
All of these games are sequels to existing ips from this generation. They were made, cost a considerable amount of money, and did well enough to justify themselves. The Evil Within can't really switch to an open world loot FPS. It'll succeed or shut down, not much middle ground there.
I feel like devs haven't even started making good use of the pro and obviously the one X since it's not out yet. 2019 would feel weird
To the people who have better insight into how game development and console launches work:
Do these job postings suggest that developers are already receiving preliminary briefings on an incoming generation? Does this mean Sony or Microsoft has begun talking to Square-Enix about new hardware, even if in only the vaguest and initial of ways? Or is this likely more just that Tabata's team and Avalanche are, like a lot of people who follow video games, abstractly expecting a new console generation to potentially begin in a few years and want to be prepared?
I disagree in regards to the PS3/360 being in sharp decline in 2012/2013. When you see a game like The Last of Us in June 2013 and it easily being the best game on both consoles that year as well as in 2014 including PS4/Xbox One and that every game was a cross gen game, waiting until 2014 to release PS4/Xbox One would have been better in my opinion.
Launch lineups would have been better and instead of it being "slow" and "where are all the games" that was said throughout 2014, there would have been a crap load of launch titles plus remasters and definitive editions.
Sony killed off Vita before it was even launched with outrageous SD card prices. Wii U was a total and complete disaster. PS4 and Xbox One were slow out of the gate and didn't pick up until early 2015 in my opinion. Can't comment on Nintendo portables since I don't pay attention to their handhelds.
2018 for PS5 is 100% NOT going to happen. 2019 is 25% and 2020 is 75% in my opinion. Sony is dominating and simply no reason to release PS5 earlier than they should. Besides, the longer they wait, the cheaper the chipsets should be which would be better for them and us.
If I see PS5 with a Jaguar CPU, I'll 100% wait three years for the PS5 Pro because then, I know that Sony will do that mid-gen crap again. If they're patient and include a far better CPU, then I know that the chances of them doing a Pro is less likely which is what im hoping they do.
When you are dominating it is a good time to launch a successor actually, you do not want to wait until your product is considered obsolete and it is not popular/selling anymore to replace it. It must be worth something to people to know this is the successor to PS4.
I think there will be a PS5 Pro and that PS5 will have. A much improved non Jaguar based CPU: Sony would not dramatically alter the CPU in a Pro model.
I don't think we'll see a PS5 Pro, it'd require 8K to be ready and 4K is still in the midst of taking off.
Weren't they potentially working on a Harry Potter game?
Looking for a senior designer could also indicate that the project is in its infancy. Given how long new IP takes anymore, this doesn't necessarily mean 2019.