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Every 6-7 years:

• Microsoft, Sony, and Nintendo each launch a campaign advertising their own next-gen console.
• At the same time, various game developers are vying to be elected as Official Next-Gen Devs, each promising their own AAA exclusives.
• The console campaigns make promises about which of your current games will work on their new consoles through BC + cross-platform, and which won't. Each promises to destroy the incumbent's greatest hits.
• Gamers vote on the console they want to own next-gen, and on the devs they want. Only one console is elected, and a handful of devs.

Once the election is over:

• Your current-gen console gets taken away, and you're forced to buy the winning next-gen console.
• Physical copies of older games that won't work through BC are taken away and incinerated, and digital copies remotely deleted. (You can still watch videos of those old games on YouTube, to remember the good ol days.)
• The elected devs work on their promised exclusives. Sometimes if an elected dev hates an elected console maker (#notmyconsole), they'll refuse to work together, and either nothing gets done or they release a shitty broken product, whose dev cost somehow ends up at $98 billion.
• Some of the games released are optional to buy and play, but some are mandatory on both counts.
• Sometimes a disgruntled hacker will assassinate an elected console by unleashing a virus that bricks all units everywhere. In such a situation, the console maker has a weaker backup console lined up. A ... I dunno let's call it "Series V."
• After a couple years, the cycle starts anew. Fans on each side rage on message boards and social media, and commit hate crimes in defiance of the prospect of being forced to play yet another goddamn Halo / Last of Us / Zelda.

What else?

 

[Kagey K]

Every 6-7 years:

• Microsoft, Sony, and Nintendo each launch a campaign advertising their own next-gen console.
• At the same time, various game developers are vying to be elected as Official Next-Gen Devs, each promising their own AAA exclusives.
• The console campaigns make promises about which of your current games will work on their new consoles through BC + cross-platform, and which won't. Each promises to destroy the incumbent's greatest hits.
• Gamers vote on the console they want to own next-gen, and on the devs / promised exclusives they want. Only one console is elected, and a handful of devs.

Once the election is over:

• Your current-gen console gets taken away, and you're forced to buy the winning next-gen console.
• Physical copies of older games that won't work through BC are taken away and incinerated, and digital copies remotely deleted. (You can still watch videos of those old games on YouTube, to remember the good ol days.)
• The elected devs work on their promised exclusives. Sometimes if an elected dev hates an elected console maker (#notmyconsole), they'll refuse to work on the game the console maker wants them to make, and either nothing gets done or they release a shitty broken product, whose dev cost somehow ends up at $98 billion.
• Some of the games released are optional to buy and play, but some are mandatory on both counts.
• Sometimes a disgruntled hacker will assassinate an elected console by unleashing a virus that bricks all units everywhere. In such a situation, the console maker has a weaker backup console lined up. A ... I dunno let's call it "Series V."
• After a couple years, the cycle starts anew. Fans on each side rage on message boards and social media, and commit hate crimes in defiance of the prospect of being forced to play yet another goddamn Halo / Last of Us / Zelda.

What else?

There is enough bullshit in the world without this.

 

[Dark Star]

Your current-gen console gets taken away, and you're forced to buy the winning next-gen console.

LMAO. I'm just imagining a bunch of Nintendo Game Counselors getting together after the election and walking around suburban neighborhoods breaking down doors, unplugging and snatching consoles away from crying children lol.

 

[teezzy]

I'd stick my dick in Ivanka's Xbox.

 

[THE DUCK]

This thread will not end well, im staying out.

 

[Kagey K]

I'd stick my dick in Ivanka's Xbox.

On the hot to crazy scale she just seems kind of middling. Not worth it in bed or outside.

Needs to be much hotter or much crazier. (Hopefully a mix of both)

 

[The Pleasure]

Every 6-7 years:

• Microsoft, Sony, and Nintendo each launch a campaign advertising their own next-gen console.
• At the same time, various game developers are vying to be elected as Official Next-Gen Devs, each promising their own AAA exclusives.
• The console campaigns make promises about which of your current games will work on their new consoles through BC + cross-platform, and which won't. Each promises to destroy the incumbent's greatest hits.
• Gamers vote on the console they want to own next-gen, and on the devs they want. Only one console is elected, and a handful of devs.

Once the election is over:

• Your current-gen console gets taken away, and you're forced to buy the winning next-gen console.
• Physical copies of older games that won't work through BC are taken away and incinerated, and digital copies remotely deleted. (You can still watch videos of those old games on YouTube, to remember the good ol days.)
• The elected devs work on their promised exclusives. Sometimes if an elected dev hates an elected console maker (#notmyconsole), they'll refuse to work together, and either nothing gets done or they release a shitty broken product, whose dev cost somehow ends up at $98 billion.
• Some of the games released are optional to buy and play, but some are mandatory on both counts.
• Sometimes a disgruntled hacker will assassinate an elected console by unleashing a virus that bricks all units everywhere. In such a situation, the console maker has a weaker backup console lined up. A ... I dunno let's call it "Series V."
• After a couple years, the cycle starts anew. Fans on each side rage on message boards and social media, and commit hate crimes in defiance of the prospect of being forced to play yet another goddamn Halo / Last of Us / Zelda.

What else?

I'm suing you for giving microsoft more bullshit ideas.

 

[The Pleasure]

I'd stick my dick in Ivanka's Xbox.

It's gonna cost you a lot and it won't have anything to play with.

 

[struggler_guts]

This thread will not end well, im staying out.

It's too late, you're already in!

 

[regawdless]

Mail in T-Flops shortly before release?

 

[Self]

If Sony looses the election it would most certainly be by fraud!

Let's be clear on that.

 

[Hudo]

That's a rather clever attempt at discussing a politics topic in the gaming section. Kudos.