Maybe if all of you actually HAD the money or weren't money-pinchers you would actually OWN a next gen console and SEE how amazing they are.
I KNOW that all of you are downplaying next gen JUST BECAUSE you either don't have the money, or are too tight to give it up.
azuroc
You know this, eh? You know no such thing. Why are you assuming that those of us who are disappointed in the next-gen offerings don't already have one? I've owned a 60GB PS3 for months, I own every PS3 game I can buy that has any appeal to me, and I see exactly what it has to offer me. And I do find it disappointing thus far, especially compared to my PS2.
You are completely missing the point here -- it has nothing to do with the money. Heck, I've spent far more rounding out my library of PS2 games in the last 3 months alone, than the PS3 cost me. Money isn't the issue, it's the quality and selection of the games, and more importantly the way in which game development for the new consoles seems to be shifting away from the kinds of varied offerings we've been used to, and more towards a "blockbuster movie" mentality where everyone is concentrating on multi-platform sure-fire hits to try and offset the insanely high development costs for the next-gen machines.
We are several months into the PS3's release, and a year and a half into the X360's release, and compared to where the PS2 was at those intervals after its U.S. release, the pickings are just not very attractive for a lot of us. Will this eventually get better, as time goes on and we (hopefully) see a larger installed user base of the PS3 to attract more variety of projects? I sure hope so. But so far, it's been underwhelming -- and that's true for a lot of us who already own a next-gen console, as well as those who don't.
You are going to miss out on some great games. Especially this holiday season with MGS4, Killzone, DMC4, GTA4, Assasin's Creed, Heavenly Sword. Not to forget Resistance, Motorstorm, and Oblivion.
That's a lot to miss out on because you're stubborn.
azuroc
Well, you're basing a lot on what you hope will be great games, but the truth is we won't know what they're like until they are released. I have high hopes for several of them myself, but for now that's all it is -- hope. To me, Motorstorm is further proof that we seem to be trading depth of gameplay and content for pure graphics -- it looks nice, but it's far from a great game. There's actually very little game there at all. This is turning into a trend so far, even with something as normally reliable as Virtua Fighter. VF5 gives us high-poly HD flash, but the AI -- which was an incredibly strong point in VF4 and VF4EVO for the PS2 -- is comparatively braindead, missing in action, despite the PS3's massive computing power. What the heck happened? Why are most of the EA sports titles also so trimmed down and feature-limited for next-gen? Why are we getting so many next-gen games that are focusing on delivering the graphics, but sacrificing the gameplay, content, and other features that we're accustomed to on their older-console counterparts?
Say what you will, but I personally find a lot of it disappointing. And good as Oblivion is, I think it's a sad commentary that months down the road, by far the best and most appealing game for the PS3 is a port of a game we've already played on the PC for over a year now... and it was only just now finally released, minus all the extras, downloadable content, and customization from the PC version of course. It's still a great game, but it should have been a launch title in November, as it was supposed to be. The fact that even this late its still the best thing available on the system is a cause for concern to me.
Again, I hope it'll get better, but only time will tell. In the meantime, you need to get over this idea that the only people who aren't blown away into gushing fanboyism by next-gen are somehow poor or stubborn or ignorant of what's available. We're not -- a lot of us know all too well what is and is not available to us so far.
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