[POLL] XBOX ONE OR PS4? WHICH ONE WILL YOU BE BUYING?

…But in all seriousness, back in 2007 I bought a 60gb playstation 3 solely because, not only would I be able to continue to buy and play psone and ps2 games, but I would also be able play playstation 3 games on it as well.

…6 years and 3 YLOD repairs later, my playstation 3 is currently broken and outside of demon souls/dark souls and a handful of downloadable titles, there haven’t really been a whole lot of games that have justified owning a playstation 3.

I mean, it was probably the best psone and pstwo system. You could have more than four controllers without having to own a multitap and you could also convert your old psone save files to the psp with the memory card converter they sold a few years ago. But in terms of games, I dunno…

It just seems like, game developers can no longer afford to make the games that I want to play anymore; games like Katamari Damacy, Mad Maestro, Fatal Frame, Rez, Shadow of Destiny, Indigo Prophecy- you know, fun, interesting, creative games. Games that were usually relatively short in length but were still very much enjoyable to play and could still turn over a decent profit for publishers.

These weren’t indie games or smart phone games. These were games that you could probably beat in a weekend rental from the video store. These were the games that really pushed the system and contributed to the vast variety of titles during the early and mid 2000s. Games like Spy fiction, Dog’s life, Cygirls, Urban Chaos or Chibi Robo.

Most of the these games were kind of mediocre, sometimes even terrible, but the fact that they could exist, the fact that these games could actually be made and share shelf space with the likes of “Halo”, “Metal Gear Solid” or even, I dunno, “God of War” is what made playing these video game consoles so great. That you could walk into a store and if you were already tired of playing the usual stuff, there was a wide enough variety of games available that, you could at least go home with something different from what you were playing before.

The platform for these types of games, these “middle class games” have disappeared from the console market. They’ve all migrated to the smartphone and cellphones because it’s just too expensive to make games on these systems.

Games like, I dunno, La Mulana:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCTnpFbriLo

So I think everyone should pay very close attention to what’s going to happen in the next five years, because if history has taught us anything, it’s the system that’s the easiest to develop for and the least expensive to make games on that usually wins these things out in the end.