Jaffe: "I Couldn't Care Less About Next-Gen"

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Can't help but agree. We have people demanding that the 'console tards' are holding us back while blindly ignoring the fact that this level of graphical fidelity is impossible. Time the industry and community woke up to this, methinks.

Its not about graphics though. Everythin in games is bein held back by how horribly equipped this current console generation is. AI is awful. Animations are dodgy at best. The best lookin games out there either don't run smoothly or they cut so many corners to do it that it is not worth it (in my opinion). We absolutely need a new set of consoles if we're ever goin to see any kind of progress on those fronts.

Actually, I think developers are to blame about all that. You can't blame releasing a crappy game on a console. It's as if you're baking a cake and it ends up tasting like ass and then you blame it on the oven. Sure, maybe the oven was dirty before you shoved the cake in and now it also tastes like feet, but for the most part, it's your fault.

I don't think a great game needs to be up-to-date with technology in order to be awesome anyway. Games like Scott Pilgrim and even Portal are amazing by themselves. If developers are cutting corners is because they either ran out of money or they just want to release the game now or whatever, but that's never an excuse.

Just looking back at the past consoles and how they've evolved should give us all an idea of the kind of improvement one needs to do before releasing a new console:

PS1: Introduced 3Dimentionality at its fullest, integrated vibrating controllers by default and added dual-analog joysticks.
PS2: Introduced a DVD feature by default, started to get into online gaming, USB peripherals mildly introduced.
PS3: Got into online gaming at its fullest and for free, introduced a virtual store plus a free Blu Ray, music, picture and video storage device, introduced the Sixaxis controller and the MOVE (Even if the idea was borrowed from Nintendo), etc.

The same can be said about the other consoles. Sony's just came to mind first.

So I kinda agree with Jaffe, even though the guy's kind of a prick. Unless the next gen. brings more to the table other than what we already have, then we don't need one. And we should stop asking for one when the ones we have are not even that bad. hell, it's not like we're still on the SNES era. Could we improve the current consoles we have? Yes, there is always room for improvement. But I don't think we're at that point where we can launch a new console without making it look like a v2 of the previous one...right, WiiU?

Unless, you know, they introduce virtual reality gaming to its fullest, like those sci-fi shows do. Then that would be something I'd buy.