‘This has been the worst video game console generation ever‘

A Reader’s Feature argues that the existent procreation is the worst there’s ever been and that Microsoft and Sony are neglecting their duties.

We’re adjacent now. For each I know, arsenic I constitute this, the Nintendo Switch 2 whitethorn already person been announced. If it hasn’t past hopefully we’re lone a fewer weeks distant from it happening. I cognize you can’t foretell Nintendo, yadda yadda yadda, but astatine the precise maximum we’re six months distant from a uncover and astir apt much, overmuch less.

And ohio lad is it needed. Sony and Microsoft are truthful useless and retired of interaction it’d beryllium comic if it wasn’t truthful sad. Especially arsenic some present look to beryllium afloat successful adjacent gen mode and each they’re reasoning astir is their caller consoles, and not the information that their existent ones are a catastrophe area.

Oh, your console income are falling? I wonderment wherefore that mightiness be! Everyone other successful the satellite seems to cognize but seemingly not Microsoft and Sony. Apparently to them the thought of releasing bully caller games is thing that has ne'er occurred to them, truthful alternatively we get Redfall and Concord.

Things started disconnected good this generation. Xbox seemed to recognize the mistakes they’d made with the Xbox One and Sony had a large line-up of PlayStation 5 games. A fewer excessively galore cross-gen games maybe, but not each of them were similar that and the exclusives they did person – Demon’s Souls, Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart, and Returnal – were each great.

Then the fig of caller games started to dilatory to a trickle and astir of the ones we did get were inactive cross-gen. It inactive wasn’t a catastrophe though, until Microsoft started flashing its currency and Sony decided that single-player games – the nonstop crushed the PlayStation 4 had been truthful palmy – were the nonstop other of what they were going to marque from present on.

After that, income mysteriously* started falling for some of them and, astatine the aforesaid time, they some abruptly decided, each of a sudden, that games were excessively costly present and truthful their large program to header with this was… to not marque immoderate much games anymore. Or astatine slightest that seems to beryllium Sony’s plan.

They’ve some been unspeakable this gen but astatine slightest Microsoft has got the excuse that they’ve ne'er been connected top. Sony should cognize amended than this though, they should beryllium the aged masters that nary longer marque schoolboy errors, but alternatively they’re acting similar clueless idiots.

The worst happening is there’s nary extremity successful sight. Xbox has immoderate decent games retired this Christmas but it’s evident nary of them are going to sell, which means their aboriginal is present tied to Call Of Duty and being multiformat. They’ve got a adjacent gen console coming retired but what’s the point? Do they truly deliberation it’s going to subordinate the inclination of perpetually declining sales?

Sony’s concern is adjacent worse, due to the fact that they inactive look to beryllium successful the denial phase. Concord has been a monolithic nonaccomplishment and we inactive don’t cognize what they’re going to bash astir it oregon unrecorded work games successful general. We cognize astir thing they person coming retired from present connected (the lone rumour is of a Days Gone remaster – thrilling!) and yet they’re already talking astir the PlayStation 6!

I truly can’t instrumentality earnestly anyone that says this isn’t the worst procreation ever. Yes, determination are inactive bully games being made but nary acknowledgment to Sony oregon Microsoft. Good games person ever been astir but successful the SNES oregon the PS1 oregon the Xbox 360 epoch you didn’t person some companies acting similar clueless buffoons and threatening the stableness of the full industry.

By scholar Tembor

*it’s not a enigma astatine all!

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