how can you not be after the E3 showings we have had? What next gen game are you looking forward to?
You and I spent what 3 years in the next gen spec threads over at era? How many different possibilities did we discuss when it came to the CPU and SSD enhancements? Did you see a single game that took advantage of the CPU and the SSD at the Sony, MS and third party conferences? Spiderman 2 is over 24 months away. What Sony first party games are going to take advantage of the PS5 I/O in the meantime?
In retrospect, it was a gigantic waste of time that thread. And the first three years of this gen are going to be an even bigger waste of time. Same games we have been playing since 2005. How can you not be miserable?
Because the situation is not that bad.
Cross-gen games were always gonna be a fixture during the early part of a new gen of consoles, and this gen's cross-gen phase has mostly been artificially extended due to the chip shortage as well as the impact of COVID.
It's not ideal, but it's not the end of the world.
So far on PS5 at least, I've played a small handful of games with mind-blowing, easily next-gen visuals in R&C:ARA and Demon's Souls. GOW:R will melt faces (mark my words), and Horizon:FW is the best looking game shown to date.
For me, if the aforementioned current best-looking titles are a taste of what's to come considering they're early cross-gen titles, hamstrung by having to support PS4, then you can bet your ass future games using UE5-level rendering tech and taking more advantage of the SSD and I/O will mean we're in for a real treat.
If those games take longer to arrive, then so be it. They'll just be ever sweeter by the time they do.
Patience is a virtue.
In the meantime, you can't tell me there's nothing to play? There is still a huge swathe of games released as well as fresh on the horizon, that while not next-gen are still great games. Stop focussing so much on tech, and just enjoy playing games for a while. When the big guns do drop, you'll be in a way better headspace to actually enjoy them.