Poll: Are you excited for the next gen consoles ?

[Th37thTrump3t]

You should add an indifferent option to this pole. So far I'm not too excited about it. We know absolutely nothing about them apart from a few leaked tech specs and some pretty shitty pics of devkits. I don't expect anything new from Sony or M$ until next years holiday season. They will more than most likely announce them at E3 this year, but will probably release them next year close to the holiday season. Plus what about launch titles? The only games I've heard about that would be for the next gen are Watchdogs and Star Wars 1313. Are they just gonna touch up current gen titles and port them to the new consoles? That's hardly a launch lineup.

Idk, if the next gen consoles do come out this year I am definitely waiting a year or so.

 

[dimensional]

Basically no I am not I mean I am curious I suppose but its going to take something seriously impressive to make me buy on launch thats for sure as I have never done that yet especially as launches are usually filled with unreliable machines.

As for the games I tend to play now the tech is perfectly fine where it is I suppose it was fine during the PS2 era as well but it does look a little nicer now with HD sprites. For the SNES, PSX and PS2 eras I was pretty hyped and actually owned all or at least most of the consoles during these eras even this gen I bought a 360, Wii and PS3 and upgraded my PC but looking back now I hardly play on the 360, Wii and PC at all and not a hell of a lot on the PS3 (only reason I play PS3 over 360 is because it plays DVDS better and the online is free, oh and my 360 has red ringed once so I dont trust it).

Basically I dont game much anymore I may get them eventually if they impress me enough but at the moment I cant see it I will probably just stick with this gen and last gen and the one before that. If there is a really awesome game I must play for some reason I will endeavor to play it regardless if its on console or PC but that rarely happens.

As for gaming on PC well I dont know why but I have never been impressed by PC gaming it just feels off somehow like im working at playing a game and I dont like that plus I cant be dealing with all the DRM crap consoles are bad enough now,not being able to take your saved game easily around to a friends because its tied to your account has really killed a lot of the social gaming I used to do and if they make it harder still to take a game I bought round to a friends and show them well that will be game over for me.

Really all I feel for gaming at the moment is a giant `meh` and it will take more than shinier graphics to persuade me to carry on I have returned to my second love of gaming at the moment which is fighting games after being burnt out for 10 years or so on them and I am enjoying them and these dont exactly need cutting edge tech to be good or improve.

I do not know hardly anything about the PS4 and 720 or whatever they are going to be called so there is time for me to get excited once I am aware of specifics I suppose (and more importantly games) but I just dont see it happening just hearing that the new Xbox will come with Kinnect 2 fills me with trepidation like oh no they`re still peddling that crap? If it has improved to a degree so that it is actually usuable I will be impressed then, but not excited.

 

[Ed130 The Vanguard]

PC gamer here. I'll probably get a new rig when the next gen of graphics stablises a little.

 

[T3hSource]

Not really excited,but this will certainly "move" the industry,but I fear it might be for the worse.Development costs will skyrocket outside the milky way,because developers have to "show off the technology" and costs will become much,much more demanding which in turn will enforce the corporate mindset "we need to make more money no matter what to please the shareholders",which will squash any effort to make an original title,because it's too risky and the company can easily follow bankruptcy if it makes such attempts.

These are my cynical predictions of course,but I will also look into the other direction of the gaming scene where ideas and communities flourish under the banner of the PC gaming master race

 

[mattttherman3]

Yes I am indeed. However, I am not excited for the inevitable high priced xbox!

 

[Shadows Risen]

I'm looking forward to it but there's not a chance that I'm getting it at launch. Pretty happy with my 360 and new laptop at the minute. Definitely gonna keep an eye on the next-gen, probably get the 720 or whatever they decide to call it when the price drops (a lot) and there's a few good games out.

 

[Casual Shinji]

This generation has been bloated with a lot of crap. And I'm not talking games, I'm talking console related issues.

Consoles have stopped being simple, easy to use devices, and have become overly complicated stuttering behemoths. And I have no faith that this won't continue on the same foot come next generation.

So I'm honestly not that psyched.

 

[Vigormortis]

No, but i do like consoles. Just not excited for the next gen

Likewise. I'm curious where that option is on the poll....

 

[viranimus]

Having a long and storied past with consoles It would be a lie to suggest I am not somewhat excited by the prospect of new advents and capabilities new hardware invariably will provide.

However how the industry has behaved this generation, and every sign pointing to next gen will have even more negatives, its impossible to get excited.

When the industry stops getting excited at a new console generation for all the potential to developing new control mechanisms and restriction on their products, abuse their customers, legal side stepping and worse, and instead gets back to being excited at the potential of developing more expansive AI, wider procedural generation, deeper scripting capacity, expanded poly budget, more responsive physics and all the good things new hardware provides, Ill consider getting genuinely excited about a new console again.

 

[Vigormortis]

No...no I'm not excited. Not because I don't want any new consoles but simply because I can't fucking afford them. *sigh* Considering that this last generation costed....WAY TOO FUCKING MUCH (No this isn't a rant about console costs, the consoles were expensive whether you found the pricing fair or not), I can only assume that the next generation will be equal to having to sell a lung and a kidney to afford them.

So Microsoft and Sony can take their time with getting the new consoles out as far as I'm concerned.

My thoughts as well. Even if one could afford it, this past console generation has been rather expensive. In fact, for the time I used it, with (some) regularity, I paid more to use and maintain my Xbox360 than I did for my PC.

I hate to say it, but you're probably right. At launch, I'm expecting the next consoles from Sony and Microsoft to cost more than the last gen did at launch. Assuming, of course, their plan is to bump up the hardware specs to match the better PC specs of today.

 

[Mr Binary]

I'm a PC gamer born and raised, so I think if I were to get a console it would be for an exclusive I really need to get. Something like that is far and few though.

 

[Get_A_Grip_]

Seeing as I'm getting a proper PC in the next few months I'll wait for whichever console has the better library of exclusive games. Odds are this will be Sony's next offering of the Playstation if history is to repeat itself.
Might check out the Ouya thing, seems like an interesting piece of kit.

 

[Aslyn]

I'm reserving judgment until we know more about what's coming. So far, not impressed.

 

[XMark]

This console generation has gone on way too long (correct me if I'm wrong, but hasn't this been the longest console generation in history even if you count the Wii U as the beginning of the 8th generation?)

PCs have gotten a massive upperhand over consoles now, and I'm thinking it may be too late for consoles in general unless they really step up their game with something truly amazing.

I think it's about time for the video game industry to seriously consider headset-based VR again. There was a brief VR craze in the late 90s but the graphics weren't very good, the headsets were bulky, and the screen resolution sucked. It's a different situation now. There's even some standards for stereoscopic video output since TV makers are all selling 3DTVs now.

With today's technology, you could make a really sweet VR headset. I'm hoping the Oculus Rift turns out to be as awesome as advertised.

 

[DSK-]

Other: Slightly interested but certainly not interested enough to warrant buying one :S

 

[Johnny Novgorod]

I have yet to run out of PS2 games. There is no rush.

 

[Z of the Na'vi]

Not in the slightest, as I just got my Star Wars Xbox 360 Kinect bundle this past summer.

I'll make do with what I have, thanks. There's plenty of 360 games from years past I never got the chance to play.