Not sure.
It's easy for me to get enthusiastic behind a platform, they all make me enthusiastic, but when it comes down to plunking down hard currency to buy some of this schit, I admit I'm throughly confused about my own needs, the various platform features, exclusives, hardware/software synergy, and downright fun factor.
On the PC side there's just soooo many games but also so much potential schit to buy, from new vid cards, to new mice, MMO subscriptions, Facebook stuff, steam stuff, origin stuff, GMG stuff, gog stuff. If I budgeted literally $500/month towards PC gaming, I could find non-trivial ways to spend it, and that's a little scary. It's almost like gaming has become a money pit. Every little thing is an extra 10 here, 15/month there, dlc, new expansion, not to mention hot hardware like Oculus Rift, multiple monitors, a new laptop, etc. Granted I don't "have" to get this stuff, but if I want to keep being excited by technology I kinda do. Medium on a PC might be better than max on a console, but it's still MEDIUM, the slider is taunting me, harassing me, laughing at my puny setup, "are you a real man? Get a GTX580 scrub!" PC gaming may be all the woman I'll ever need, I just don't know if I can afford her.
Xbox side, I'm battered and confused. I spent years having fun on my 360, paying the crummy 50/year and picking out budget games to burn thru, I swear I had the time of my life. But now they come out with this "Xbone" that seems more like a cable box than a console, I have no idea what the online pricing will be, I hear they will have MMO's and multiple tiers, and "game sharing" will be different, not to mention a big ol corporate CAMERA facing into my bedroom. Really Microsoft? But then I look at the announced exclusives and my mouth drools, GOD I want to play these games so bad. I know for a fact that I'll be happy with an Xbone but won't I be happier just upgrading my rig? Or with a PS4? I just can't answer that. I don't know.
Honestly the only safe bet seems to be the PS4, but where are the exclusives? So far the only thing I give a crap about is Second Son. Not to mention the rumored mandatory online fee, Facebook interface, etc etc. And I'm still not convinced that despite having great hardware, Sony still won't manage to certify broken games like they did with the PS3. When you put out a game like Skyrim and put your NAME on it, it needs to run FLAWLESSLY. I wouldn't let a company use my family name on the disk and have a game lag to 0 fps. What happened to Japanese "honor" and all that stuff, I thought they were supposed to be better than greedy old Microsloth, turns out they're the same schit in the different bag.
So there you go, my assessment on all 3 platforms for "next gen."
I honestly can't say which I'll buy or which I won't, all that I can say certainly is that there are some games on the PC I can't live without, like strategy games, Airline Tycoon and the occaisional WoW bender.
For "blockbuster" games like Mass Effect, Ass Creed and such, the consoles still seem like the best bet to get a consistent product, without having to remember multiple logins like the Bioware site to get a DLC. Between Xbone and PS4, the PS4 seems like the obvious choice, but I'm starting to have my doubts, and my nostalgia from all the good times I've had on the 360 and all the slow ass downloads I had on the PS3.
Maybe it turns out I *am* an Xbox guy at heart. Or maybe it turns out the PC was the only platform worth owning all along, I'll be broke but at least I won't have a kinect camera watching me f*ck hot girls, with a bunch of creepy ass Microsoft marketing types peeping.
F*ck you Microsoft.
F*ck you EA.
F*ck you Origin.
F*ck you DRM.
F*ck you Sony.
You pieces of schit, no wonder the gaming population is going down. It's you jerkoffs driving people away with your DLC horse armor and your incomplete broken games.
Whatever I get next gen, you can believe I'll be a smart shopper and check every deal 50 times before I buy anything. You people made me this way.
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