GEN 9 Gaming SUCKS! The UNFORTUNATE State of Modern Gaming
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- Опубликовано: 6 июн 2024
- Brent gives his thoughts on Generation 9 of gaming and why he believes Gen 9 sucks and the current state of gaming as a whole. Between large scale acquisitions, games being released in unfinished states, and lots of industry layoffs, Gen 9 of gaming has left much to be desired.
What are your current thoughts on the state of gaming and generation 9?
00:00 Intro
00:47 November 2020: Gen 9 Begins
02:09 2021
03:38 2022
06:33 2023
13:43 Patches
14:34 Industry Acquisitions
18:34 Industry Layoffs
20:39 Ransomware Attacks
21:01 Production Costs
23:21 Wrapping It Up
A couple of clarifications:
I indicated that Returnal was a third party game due to the fact that at the time of its release, Sony hadn't acquired Housemarque yet.
Also in regard to PlayStation's first party line up, or lack thereof, I'm well aware that PlayStation has quite a few exclusives coming in 2024, but their first party studios have yet to announce anything of note.
A viewer brought it to my attention that along with Halo Infinite being released in 2021 Forza Horizon 5 also came out that year.
The recently acquired Firewalk Studios will be releasing concord, for PS5 and PC in 2024.
I have been made aware that the Switch is what kicked off Gen 9.
Thanks to Jeremiah from @dudeletschat for helping with some script revisions.
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I once again want to say thank you to everyone who has commented on this video. I've been enjoying reading the comments and hearing the various of different perspectives on the subject and I've been doing my best to respond to some of them.
I felt like I should post in a comment some of the things that have been clarified to me and I greatly appreciate these clarifications.
-I indicated that Returnal was a third party game due to the fact that at the time of its release, Sony hadn't acquired Housemarque yet.
-Also in regard to PlayStation's first party line up, or lack thereof, I'm well aware that PlayStation has quite a few exclusives coming in 2024, but their first party studios have yet to announce anything of note.
-A viewer brought it to my attention that along with Halo Infinite being released in 2021 Forza Horizon 5 also came out that year.
-The recently acquired Firewalk Studios will be releasing concord, for PS5 and PC in 2024.
-I have been made aware that the Switch is what kicked off Gen 9.
Thanks for all of these and if there's more clarifications that should be brought to my attention please comment them here!
Dude at least grow the balls to tell the truth. Activists have invaded and poisoned the videogame industry just like the movie industry, at least on western studios. There are tons of woke propaganda garbage injected in games for the last few years.
This video did not age well, since what Xbox games have done.
What are you talking about? This generation has birthed the greatest games of all time! There was the Mass Effect remaster, the Dead Space remaster, The Last of Us remaster, Resident Evil 4 remake, FF7 remake, Demon Souls remake, Spiderman remaster, Halo trilogy remastered...wait hol up...
Eeeeeeyyyyy I see what you did there haha.
Don't get me wrong, I've certainly enjoyed many of those remakes, but seeing them all typed out like that reminds me of how creatively bankrupt entertainment in general has become.
@@WorkInProgressslo at this low point it doesn’t even matter if AI takes over.
Elden ring, and bg3, without those two titles. This generation would be the worst in history by far
@@BoondockGore valdgate 3 and elden ring isnt used to be in the same sentence since the latter is perfect where the former is a fly trying to land on steak
4 years in, and I still don’t feel like this generation has even started. I’m still playing and buying PS4 games despite me owning a PS5.
Yep. This is why i never bought a PS5, and at this point have no plan to. Decided to go with PC. Much happy over by me.
@@sub-jec-tiv I still believe they released this gen 1 year too early. They should have waited till demand of parts wasn't an issue. Alot of us couldn't even get our hands on a new console plus game companies were remote working from their homes. Terrible time to release in all that chaos that set us all back
3 years dude lol, just because it's the 4th year doesn't mean it's been 4 years... not how time works
If the rumors are true, I’m still gonna get a PS5 Pro mainly to enjoy the PS4 games I missed out on by skipping the PS4.
@@adultmoshifan87 why not get a PC?
And worst part about it is that they charge us extra for unfinished games
Resident Evil 4 Remake got amazing reviews and I have to say that it's a great game even though its original version took the series in the wrong direction IMO, but I have always said that the game was unfinished at launch. Seperate Ways was released as a 15€/$ DLC when it has been a part of every port of OG RE4 since PS2 release in 2005 or something. So many people in Twitter seem to be okay with this. Well, I'm not! It should have been a part of the game day 1.
Hasn't been that way since mid PS4/Xbox one and barely on 360 and PS3 tho
They really don’t… 60 bucks 10 years ago is worth $80 now.
Yea inflation is a thing
Yep!
No better time than today to become a Retro Gamer!
nah
I have one of those tiny PS2 slims that I’ve started collecting games from my teenage years for. It’s been fun finding these games that I haven’t played in almost 20 years.
@@WorkInProgressslo Retro Handhelds also help me catch up on the classic games I've missed.
It sure is! Especially on the seven seas;)🏴☠️
Yeah, I wouldn’t.
Notice Nintendo hasn’t fired thousands of people or bought up numerous studios
I read somewhere They actually gave ppl a raise
@@bubbles0904Yes they did ! the difference is that they don't do the gawk gawk 3000 to their shareholders so they can actually do good things for their employees
@@bubbles0904iwata cut his salary and it worked. Japanese culture cannot just fire workers.
@@therealjaystone2344Rare japan work culture W
But Nintendo comes from a country where companies enslave people so hard that suicide because of stress is considered a part of the japanese culture. They even have a suicide forest.
So yeah keep thinking Nintendo treats it's slaves better than western companies.
Went from my PS5 to PS2 emulation. Couldn't be happier 😂
What a terrible decision. The best PlayStation games are in HD to play on PS3 and PS5
@@DanielMazahrehI think emulated ps2 on a decent pc will look better than on ps3 or ps5. not that I care, I prefer to play them on the og hardware because there is always something missing in the HD releases.
@@DanielMazahreh HD doesn't mean shit if the gameplay are garbage
incorrect. on a decent gaming PC you can upscale emulated ps2 games to 2k and 4k resolution @@DanielMazahreh
100% this all day.
The switch has been a light in the dark for the 9th gen. It has a strong library of first party games: Tears of the Kingdom, New Horizons (Animal crossing was THE GAME during Covid's peak), Metroid Dread, etc. It has a strong list of remakes and remasters: Metroid Prime, Links Awakening, SMT Nocturne. And then for legacy content the switches library is unmatched. Also split screen and couch co-op is alive and well on the switch as well as offline games that don't take up all your console space.
My switch has been on the shelf for almost a year. Bunch of mobile games
The switch's library is incredible honestly, and I'm very happy with the games I've gotten and played (on sale)
Though the switch's hardware has been holding it back for a while now, and I hope that a sequel comes out at some point (within 3 years? Might be copium but yeah)
@@mgiebus1869Horrible bait
I totally agree! I only got mine last year but I love it. While a little over half of my collection consists of ports, remasters and remakes I have a selection of original first party titles that I love like the mainline Pokemon games and even ports like Kirby Return To Dreamland Deluxe. Besides, there are a couple of Switch exclusive third party ports like The World Ends With You Final Mix and a set of Dragon Quest I-III. Combined with quality newer games like Shantae 1/2 Genie Hero, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Shredder's Revenge and Dragon Quest XI you have a great system that combines old and new classics. I won't even complain about the PlayStation ports, I played the Final Fantasy Chronicles port of FFIV last year to test my old PlayStation out and had a great time aside from how long it took to save and load the game. Still the only way for me to physically play the original Chrono Trigger, so I'm going to go back to it one of these days.
The Switch is just a glorified tablet, much like modern consoles are just glorified PCs at this point. If PCs had less "moving parts" and were more convenient to use for people that just want to play games, consoles would've died long ago.
Last year I played more indie games than any other year. That was a direct result of most modern AAA games being garbage. Don't care what anyone thinks, retro and indie gaming are what I'm looking forward to these days.
Retro and indies are about all I play now.
I went all in on retro gaming in 2020 and started dabbling in indie gaming as well. Haven't regretted it at all. Modern gaming is absolute trash and I've opted out of it since Gen 9 was announced. Been happier ever since.
Yep I personally only go up to PS3/Xbox 360/Wii... no more! All that is good enough for me! Plus the 1000's of games I want to play from generations before that. FWIW I grew up with PS1, but my favourite era by far was PS2. We do not need any new games.
Been a gamer since the 80's. Retro games are fun to revisit for nostalgia, they're fun in small doses. But they don't compare to GOOD modern games. Visuals. Content. Gameplay mechanics. Sound. Score. Voice acting. Writing. I'd rather play Breath of the Wild than A Link To The Past. I'd rather play Baldurs Gate 3 than any 16 bit Final Fantasy. I'd rather play Forza Horizon than Rad Racer. Would rather play Street Fighter 6 over 2. Plus the best VR games out now have next level immersion. Sure, there's a lot of games released in poor states. There's bs freemium games. There's complacent developers like EA and their sports franchises. But there's more of everything because the gaming industry as a whole is far larger than it was 30 years ago. Gone are the days where you'd spend the equivalent of $90 in todays money, on a cartridge game that ended up sucking, because there were no reviews, and no patches to fix or improve anything.
nah
It was six years between two games as wildly different as Super Mario Bros. 3 and Super Mario 64. It now takes that long for a single game to get produced.
Not really when indie companies pump out games often. It's more that they focus waaaay too much on graphics and milking you of money instead of just using older engines that work fine and making good solid titles
@@ryanwood6754 tbf when you "use older engines that work fine" you get starfield
Runaway development costs related to graphics and marketing, mostly. Let's be real, even the Ps3 era looked very acceptable and Crysis from 2007 still looks great. Not every single game has to be ultra realistic raytraced and movie-like. They should leave some room in development for lower budget games.
I very much agree with you! I'm a huge proponent of so long as a game is fun and plays well then I don't care how it looks. Look at Palworld, it's fun, it plays fairly well, and it was made on a super low budget I believe and now it's a huge commercial hit. Sea of Stars is the same way, it looks and plays like a 90s game but it's fun! Games don't have to be blockbuster hits all the time.
@@WorkInProgressslo
Hell, you'd think the unmitigated success of Minecraft would've proven that you can have very retro games take off, if they're fun. If anything, tons of people don't have the hardware required for these latest games, having low tech games means more people can play.
@@VGamingJunkie Can't argue with that, that's an excellent way to look at it. One of my biggest issues with some of the games that came to PC last year is that most of them seemed to need a high end PC to run them. Not everyone owns/can afford a high end PC haha.
@@WorkInProgressslo
yeah, Alan Wake 2 especially has infamously high system requirements. The game doesn't even look that good, at least compared to other recent games.
@@VGamingJunkie Well, I'll have to disagree on Alan Wake 2 not looking good, I thought it looked great haha. But I would agree that it probably should require crazy system settings.
There’s nothing to debate. Industry consolidation = bad for gamers. It’s why we’re paying more now for worse games and why we’re seeing fewer games released. It leads to less competition, and therefore less innovation. We’ve seen this happen over and over again in gaming and other industries too. It benefits nobody except major shareholders and company executives. These are simply the facts. Gamers and tech consumers need to come together and stand against it.
Not to mention it’s also why we see more monetization schemes, forced live service games, massive numbers of layoffs (at the very companies involved in these acquisitions). There is a huge correlation, and all of it is negative.
Yes and no. I'd say it's more of a symptom of/response to industry crap than crap on its own. It can be done to try to fix things, or to make bad things worse. So it isn't a _core_ problem, but it wouldn't happen if there weren't other problems already around.
Industry consolidation has nothing to do with it, gamers have a lot to answer for, they buy micro transactions for things we used to get in game. The fact that games like Fortnite generate so much money is the problem, game devs are risk averse or at least the investors who fund the games are, a single player new IP can cost hundreds of millions to make, with physical media. a gamer can finish the game and trade it in meaning multiple people get to play the game and the Dev gets 1 sale. So you have to sell a scary amount of copies to break even, you have to worry about some dumb ass on the dev team or marketing team making a wrong statement and getting your game boycotted, with all that you can see why we have so many sequels, remasters, remakes or just copy paste live service trash games. And before you start saying Sony can pull it off? they too pivoted to live service and are the biggest offender this gen when it comes to remakes and remasters, they can also eat the cost of single player games as they sell the console which gets them a 30% cut off all purchases after that
Just a reminder that the vast majority of games have 50 - 70% of their playerbase quit around the first boss/level.
Does this include subscription pass games? That’s a really interesting stat 😮
@@jdee0 Most likely! Probably casuals.
Yeah I'm not really sure why HFR was singled out for this. Check the achievement stats for any game and it's pretty underwhelming.
@@jdee0
I assume subscription game stats are the same but even if you go on Steam its pretty consistent that the majority of players quit around lvl 1, the only real exception to this is (surprisingly) the Dark Souls games or other really really popular games.
Dam the FIRST BOSS?!?!
I was born in 87 and this is by far the worst enjoyment I’ve had playing video games. Games feel like a chore to play now. 70 hour fetch quests. I loved playing a 8 hour platform or action game and unlocking a character and making me want to replay the game because it was just solid simple fun.
I really wish games were scaled down a bit. A lot feel like a chore.
Yeah I started on atari 2600 and I think the most fun I had was on snes and sega CD.
Born in 78 and cannot agree more.
LOL well yeah, I was born in 94. Life isn't all about fun friend. Videogames having parts that are more "mundane" whatever that means is just a part of life. Makes them feel like a more complete and realistic/mature experience to me. Life isn't just about fun once you get to this age amigo. What the hell are you people even complaining about? You have indie games, classic games, and all sorts of games. Do gamers just enjoy complaining about everything? Even with all of the amazing software/hardware we have these days? Ever considered that maybe the problem is you? Maybe you should consider getting another hobby? Swimming, boxing, something else?
I think you may be taking their comment into something it isn't.
I do agree with that we change and need new hobbies and priorities as we age, but I do think the padding and pacing of games is a legit downside for some people.
It isn't that people don't enjoy mundane or the non-exciting parts of life. I am obsessed with slice of life and media that focuses on the mundane but certain aspects of a lot of games that pride themselves on length feel less like they are focusing on the mundane moments and more on padding time.
This has actually been a great year of games for me, but I can recognize not everyone is the same and one positive for you may be a negative for someone else. It is easy to write everything off as complaining. @@hugopereira5640
with every passing day i feel happier that i never upgraded past ps4 and switch
For sure haha, I mean most games that are coming out are still being released on PS4 and of course Nintendo hasn't moved passed the Swtich yet. I mean, why not? The Switch is still moving loads of consoles every month.
Same here. There’s (almost) nothing worth my time if I were to purchase a PlayStation 5 or one of the new Xboxes.
Steam Deck Is worth It but otherwise yeah I just don't care about PS5/Series X. Sony stopped truly being Sony after the PS2 era (not Including their handhelds).
Me too man. Rocked elden ring on ps4 and loved it. Currently playing mario wonder. No plans on buying any new console. I'm just going to get a new PC and play baldurs gate. Ps5 is a joke. I sort of wanted to play ff16, but it looks like complete, and utter, garbage. Shame on Square Enix.
@@HankHammer-cp5px 5090 day 1 (hopefully).
Not just corporate greed to blame. Gamers should have collectively said no to always online, DLC, digital only and patches for unfinished games- instead of allowing them all to become industry standard.
I'm fine with digital, I haven't bought a physical game in years, I was happy when they started selling digital titles, that way my jerk brother doesn't steal my games anymore, it fixed a major issue ive had for years
@@mathewhosier9739 instead of worrying about your brother- now you only have to worry about a corporation turning off your games collection on a whim?
@@uxm4life94most people don’t care when they lose their stuff digitally 15 years from now because we all move on with our lives.
@@therealjaystone2344 the same people "moving on" with their lives are renting out endless remasters and remakes of games they've been denied real ownership of by the corporations. Then you have licensed games you can't get anymore like Marvel vs Capcom 2. People are being wilfully ripped off. Rationalising this is deluded. This generation will never get to retire- they'll be renting their homes, information and even entertainment out from their corporate overlords till the end of time.
@@therealjaystone2344 most of those people "moving on" are constantly buying (now renting) remakes/remasters of games they should already own.
We're seeing the consequence of something that started back in the 7th generation: the excessive focus on graphics. First graphics, performance, fps, RT, HDR, then comes the fun (if there's any). Because of this, developers spend a ton of time obsessing over graphics, which takes forever, and can't release many games quickly. The result is a generation with few games, buggy games, remakes, remasters, no innovation, no new franchises. Basically, a failure.
Going back to some older games on older hardware from the 2000s like the GBA, DS, Wii, Xbox 360, the games which supposedly have "significantly worse graphics" are still a ton of fun to play because the gameplay is what makes games fun. Also so nice that most games dont ever exceed 10 gb from this era. Handheld games were usually a few hundred MBs at most.
Because it's the most obvious way to justify all that POWAR™. And it REALLY started, as did patching, expansions and remonetization, with the "master race platform" known as the PC. God bless Nintendo for taking a different, more fun-friendly tack with power justification, even if not every moment of said tack was smooth sailing.
@@CarbonRollerCaco Nintendo is still holding down. Lets see for how long.
Things are going badly wrong. When the Ps2 came out there were a tonne of launch titles. there were loads and great variety of games that came out for it. In the modern generation, there is a distinct lack of games.
I was 19 when the PS2 launched and it's launch titles were terrible. It wasn't until Onimusha, or maybe Zone of the Enders when something worth buying released.
@@bigduke5902yeah the launch window was not healthy at all. People forget about this, it did take some time. It finally exploded sure but I remember going to blockbuster after getting a PS2 shortly after launch and ended up renting this piece of crap called Oni.
Was not a good introduction to my super cool shiny new console. Now once I got my hands on GTA3, Jak and Daxter, Final Fantasy X, Metal Gear Solid 2, etc. I was very pleased. Still my largest game collection by a pretty huge amount.
@@bigduke5902you can't compare the ps5 with the PS2, more than 3 years have passed and this new generation of consoles has failed to innovate and create new ips however games are more expensive then ever,buggy and unfinished,the PS2 still has One of the best libraries of video games out there full of diversity and innovation
@@isidorodaviddoro1920 What does that have to do with the PS2 launch titles being lackluster?
@@GeddyRC I was one of the lucky ones who was able to get a PS2 on day one and the game I played most in the first two months was Chrono Cross. The N64, on the other hand, only had three games at launch but they were Super Mario 64, Shadows of the Empire, and Pilotwings 64. These young 'uns don't know a time when quality was valued over quantity.
I sold my new stuff in 2019 and went back to exclusively 6th generation & earlier. I have no regrets.
I did the same recently but chose 7th gen instead.
I've invested mostly in consoles and games from 1993-2013, basically the 5th through 7th generations, and I couldn't be happier with that decision.
Back to playing dead rising
@@r3tr0sp3ct3r You need to broaden your horizons then. Of course you'd feel bored if you stick to the same genres. There is tons of variety on 7th gen if you look at the right games.
Also, all consoles that gen had some form of backwards compatibility, so you can always return to the classics.
You’re all missing out on the best games on Series X, PS5 and Switcheroo!
I'll be honest, to me, this generation feels like it still hasn't really started, despite that we're pushing into year four now.
Heck, I even think about how some of the biggest upcoming multiplatform games: Persona 3 Reload, Like a Dragon 8, Granblue Fantasy ReLink, Eiyuden Chronicle, they all still have versions on PS4 or Xbox One.
That is how I feel as well.
I actually hope it nearly ends in the next 1-2 years, because my 1 TB is filling up.
Agreed.... I've been gaming since the original NES and it always was best to wait a year after launch for studios to really start making games meant for next gen rather than ports of previous gen games... This gen the gap between PS4 and Xbox last gen doesn't seem worth the huge financial outlay including for a lot of people switching from a 1080p TV to a 4k TV.... So we're looking at spending £2000 just to get a console where there's nothing really worth buying games wise?
I booted up RDR2 last week and was blown away again by how good it still looks and plays.... Last of us 2 also and that's not the remaster ofc .... Final fantasy remake was a joy to play as it was my favourite PS1 game back in the day!
@@iad77exactly,i have a PS4 and i am disappointed with the console and i don't think that it's worth upgrading to PS5,gaming is more expensive then ever before but this gen doesn't launch anything that deserves all that investment
@@isidorodaviddoro1920I’d say wait until gta 6 to buy one
If you think shit is bad now, then you better strap in because it's gonna get a whole lot worse before it gets any better.
If it ever gets batter.
This gen has certainly be great for me...
Great for letting me catch up with my backlog! I've been playing so many older games and having so much fun!
This gen cured my gaming adiction.
Feel the exact same way. Fantastic comment! Agree with the commenter’s response as well.
Same man I just buy a 2nd hand ps4 slim and I just shock to see the gaming library I'm enjoying a lot now I thing I don't need to buy ps5 bcz ps4 have very good game
@@avikdutta637 PS5 plays both PS4 and PS5 games. If’s a better investment.
PS3 and Xbox 360 were the pinnacle of console gaming. It's been downhill from there.
That gen was when gaming started going downhill. The pinnacle of console gaming was the gen before it, PS2, GameCube and OG Xbox. I loved the 7th gen, but that was when all the cracks started to happen that led to where gaming is now.
You're both right, but you have to admit Xbox Game Pass is insane value, that and the Switch are the best thing to happen since PS3 era
7th gen is one of the weaker ones IMO. Xbox 360 had no interesting exclusives (well, a couple), PS3 games ran like shit and Nintendo had Wii and with it they forgot their core fans for a while.
Japanese devs had problems moving into the HD era and it hurt that gen a lot. I might be wrong but wasn't that the generation when Japan started to lean towards handhelds more and more? Can't blame them as the lack of quality games was a big problem at that time.
Nintendo DS kept me gaming back then. That was an AMAZING system. So many great games.
@@-locke-6051 The DS was a great little device. My favorite actually.
Eh, I'd say the GC, PS2, and OG Xbox were the pinnacle of console gaming.
The 7th gen did improve the graphics quite a bit, but it seemed like the 6th gen had way more to pick from when it came to games.
It still baffles me that people continue to put the switch as a gen 8 system when it is a gen 9 system. There is no reason for the switch to be in the same gen as its direct predecessor the wii u
I have become more and more disinterested and disillusioned with modern (AAA) gaming since 2016. I haven't bothered with investing in consoles since the 7th gen. The last console I own is an Xbox 360. And I do own a high end gaming PC, but I mostly play older or indie games.
I've spent more money on acquiring mostly PS2 titles for my collection than I have on modern games for the last decade. I also collect Xbox 360 games and also pysical copies of PC games which I already own on Steam or GOG, but would like to keep on my shelf. I find more joy in collecting retro games than taking part in the contemporary gaming sphere. Indie games are the only modern games with few exceptions I tend to actually enjoy and complete these days.
Same here, except for Nintendo but I never got a xbox1/ps4 or xboxseriesx/ps5.
no@@bretton_woods
I have actually swung the other way because I was disillusioned with gaming all together since 2019. This Christmas my wife gifted me a PS5 with God of War 2018 and Ghost of Tsushima and man I am back to gaming almost every day after work. I realised that the reason why I was losing interest in gaming was because I spent 9 hours coding in front my PC and after work, I just didn’t want to even look at my PC anymore. Also gaming on a big 4K screen is awesome and something I had never done before. I still have my gaming pc but I just don’t use it for gaming and purely use it for work. The pick up and play on consoles cannot be matched by PC. For all the lack of customisation on consoles, it’s actually liberating that I don’t have to fiddle with settings or worry about shader compilations or driver updates. Games just work and look awesome. Also, I love physical ownership of games, something that’s completely dead on PC.
I get what your are saying. I still prefer PC because I'm heavily into strategy games and more realistic "shooter"/war games like Arma, Mount & Blade and War of Rights. And Ready or Not etc. Not to mention the accessibility and thus preservation of games on PC. I can still play 20 year old games. Some require some work and tinkering. But its completely possible and I don't have to rely on the small crumbs of remakes and remasters the AAA industry bother to publish.
But thats why I'm into retro consoles. The ability to just sit down and pick up and play is liberating. And to be left alone for a couple of hrs without internet connection for me personally:P
There is absolutley nothing wrong with modern consoles. The two games you mentioned are both great and I'm waiting for Ghost of Tsushima to be released for PC. But for me I need more than 2-5 good exclusives to bother to invest in a console. I have 76 ish PS2 games and about 25 of those are Exclusives. For me the problem with modern gaming isn't the console itself. But the games in general. And if the modern gaming landscape were as innovative and passion driven as the 6th gen I would jump all over the PS5. We would have 100's of games like God of War 2018 and Ghost of Tsushima, instead og 5.
I stopped at the 360 as well, but only because I went through 2 consoles within a year, thank you RRoD...
Almost three and a half years in and I'm still not interested in buying one of the new consoles.
I'm content in the past
I'd rather play the shitty games that suck ass
I'd rather have a buffallo
Take a diarrhea dump in my ear
I'd rather eat the rotten asshole
Of a road killed skunk and down it with beer
Yup if I had to do it again, I would've stuck w/ my first mind and just put an SSD in my one X. Even now, upgrading isn't worth it. There's almost zero current gen games.
@@dctrbrass Honestly, the One X and PS4 Pro had plenty of life left in them, and they bizarrely had as good or better 4K support than a lot of current games.
@@jacklawsen6390! Yup I agree
I recently bought the xbox one s with halo infinite hogwarts legacy and dead rising 3
Overpriced consoles, games and accessories. The AAA games feature unwelcome narratives and are filled with bugs too.
at this point i feel like "getting back into the grove" may only happen after a full on game market crash like what happened in 83. companies need to feel the distrust they garnered in consumers, not just in gaming but with all services that feel like their customers don't deserve to own their purchases, or even give them a fully fleshed out product.
A market crash like what happened in the 80s is pretty much impossible now. The industry is many orders of magnitude larger and physical sales only make up a fraction of total game sales which reduces risk for the industry (and was the primary reason for the 80s crash). If anything happens the industry's over-reliance on subscription based pricing and loot boxes will faulter and people will gravitate back to indie titles and high quality non-subscription games like BG3 and Elden Ring which there is still a huge demand for. The gaming industry is not going anywhere anytime soon.
Yeah this gen has had more letdowns than wins
Really!? Please explain I’m curious unless you just wanted to comment
Gen 9 is super weird. Besides barley playing any current releases my Series X kinda collects dust for like 3 Months now because I literally forget I have that Thing
I'm a PC user primarily, I bought a PS5 around a year ago now thinking I need one for future exclusives, however there's barely been any, and honestly if Spiderman 2 and God Of War Ragnarok are the best they got, we really are doomed. I want sequels to expand and make the old one look bad, but games don't do that anymore.
@@mttrashcan-bg1roand most PS games are coming to PC anyway. So if you are PC gamer, there is no need to get a console (except maybe Switch but even that can be easily emulated on a PC). It’s only a matter of time before Spider-Man 2 and God of War Ragnarok would be on PC as well.
I'm still using my base xbox one from 10 years ago. There aren't really any new AAA games coming out I'm interested in, most indie games are still on last gen, and I most play old 360 games anyway, so I have no reason to upgrade.
Just give it to me man wtf
@@PurushNahiMahaPurushexactly that’s what I’m saying steam deck is the only pc console like device I’ve been playing on since I got it two months ago. I see no reason to touch my ps5 when literally all there exclusives are on steam
One good thing I could say about this generation is the handheld PCs. The steam deck and the rog ally or something that would have blown my mind as a kid
We are definitely in a dark age of gaming at the moment. Crappy business practices getting worse, ESG influence over creative decisions in triple A titles. Everything is starting to be geared towards digital only and subscription based gaming and content, etc. It sucks here now.
the worst thing is this is infecting all media in general right now. 2023 has had some record breaking movie flops, and one thing this video didnt mention enough (which is fine since it was a relatively new thing and you mentioned this took weeks to write) is the removal of your digital content even if paid for, even though Big retailers are considering getting rid of DVDs and blurays to go digital only.
I like how easy it is to watch foreign shows and movies. American stuff has mostly sucked lately. There's so many foreign gems like Killing Eve, Miranda, Voice (Korean detective drama), The IT Crowd, The Glory, Dark, etc. :)
Layoffs are a logical step after a buyout. It happens all the time with everyone in almost every field. Why? Because you have to get rid of positions that you already have within your own group. There are not gonna let go of the Microsoft marketing team, so they let go of the Activision one. They do that with every positions/teams that they already have.
But sometimes they let go of their own teams if the new ones are better. Activision's marketing team was fine but not enough to keep their reputation out of the trash. But if they acquired a company that's well loved by its consumers and has a great public perception, they may let go of the Xbox division of the Microsoft marketing team to replace them with the new one. Just a basic example of how an acquisition can lead to the original company having layoffs and not the bought one. Though, I think most companies would be somewhere in between, unless they have or the acquired company has just an absolutely awful department. Which is rare. This is cause you need some people from the new team to tell the old one what strategies have worked best for their IP and company and what hasn't worked (it may not be the same), and the new team needs the old team to help them adjust to the new leadership
It's true but that ain't it. The ENTIRE tech sector has suffered MILLIONS of job losses in the past 18 months. My own company announced another $8M investment they managed to get this week, they fired my friend on Friday at 6 pm... I'll probably be gone when I hand my next paycheck. My company was 200+ employees 18 months ago, we're below 85 today...
The real culprit is that we had 14 years of terrible economic policies (worldwide - look into quantitative easing) and that the market crashed and burned in September 2019... But you haven't heard about that... That's my point, they haven't let it crash and burn. It got to the point where the markets rallied WHILE the economy was stopped during lockdowns.
We're seeing the biggest economic crash known to mankind, in slow motion.
Fun facts, September 2019 was so big that a single night on the repo market eclipsed 2008 crisis.
2023 regional banking crisis had a handful of banks going bankrupt, all of them combined were a bigger crash than dozens (plural) of banks crashing in 2008.
Make no mistake, the entire economy is crashing down. It usually happens in a matter of months, this time it'll take years.
Once you'll realise that what I'm saying is 100% factual, everything that you see around you will make SO MUCH more sense... 1.5 wars start every year on average since 2021? They're rushing to get CBDC out the door? There are lawsuit and investigations against EVERY SINGLE cryptoSh!t platform? Everyone is losing their job? Rent and food doubled?
This is not happenstance.
That doesn't come close to covering all the factors behind those decisions. I used to work on mergers and acquisitions
The Switch started the 9th Gen. stop treating it like a 7th Gen system. People do the same bs to the Dreamcast with the 6th Gen
Tbf the Dreamcast was competing against the N64, not the Gamecube and the Switch released at the same time as the PS4 Pro and the XBOX One X (two other 8th gen console)
I think majority rules for when we move to a new gen. When the Switch was out PS and Xbox were both still on the last gen. And with Xbox and PS always tied at the hip when it comes to new consoles, Nintendo is the odd man out.
No Ray Tracing capability on the Switch, which is something that defines the other two 9th gen consoles from the previous generation consoles, and that alone is enough for me to not classify the Switch as a 9th gen console.... even if ray tracing hasn't been a huge differentiator on many games.
And when you add the low rasterization/resolution power of the Switch with the date of when it was launched, not even drunk, I would consider it 9th gen!!
How many true next gen games have we actually gotten? It feels like we get one or two games per year from each platform. PS2/PS3 & Xbox/Xbox 360 were probably the best generations. So many games, so many great exclusives from both platforms.
I hate the current generation too. What is the point in physical media if it absolutely requires a 70gb+ download just to get past the first scene? Did nobody quality test the discs before release?
You have never owned any media. Just cuz you have a physical copy doesn’t mean it’s yours. Remember using media for anything other than personal use is illegal and has been since the dawn of time. Remember those fbi warnings on vhs tapes. Fine print on cd cases. Etc. you don’t own shit. The discs only exist to verify you purchased a license and it’s faster to run games off the drive to that’s y
The game disc being shipped these days is just the "paying beta tester disc", the rest of the finished game will, hopefully, but not guaranteed, come along several months, or even years after!...
It has been like this since the PS3-Xbox 360 era, and I don't think it's going to change... but it did change when I play new games: no earlier than 1 year after release.
This gen is about loading fast. It seems most developers aren't putting a lot of effort optimization to take advantage of the hardware.
Gaming truly peaked during the 7th generation. Xbox 360, PS3 and Wii. Plus the PSP, PS Vita and 3DS. Fantastic games were ubiquitous on all platforms, DLC was something you legitimately got what you paid for, playing most of them online was a social experience and the services (save for Xbox Live) were no charge, and games were complete out of the box with minimal patches. It seemed like every month there was a grand slam of a game to pick up. Mirror's Edge, Battlefield 3, LittleBigPlanet, Gears of War, Killzone 2, Persona 4 Golden, Halo 3 and Reach, Team Fortress 2, the list goes on. Now there's hardly anything out there worth paying for. I thought I'd pick up a PS5 for Armored Core 6, but the cost of the console for just one game isn't worth it. I got a PS4 copy and have accepted that this generation isn't worth investing in.
7th gen was the start of every despicable trends 8th and 9th gen inherited. You actually mean 6th gen. Persona 4 Golden is just a remaster of a late 6th gen game.
@@Zalkova Fair enough, but the industry back then wasn't even a quarter of THIS bad. I feel like the 7th gen struck a good balance between graphics, the "fun-factor" and online gaming.
However, as you said, the 8th gen inherited all of those vices, and left us with a "just decent" gen overall. Tons of good games, but also tons of bad games as well; and now, sadly, the current gen is mostly bad games (from AAA studios),,,
To the point of layoffs: You will only ever read news about layoffs, but not when the industry is hiring new people. Overall the number of people employed in the gaming industry has not gone down, but is at an all time high.
i agree everything you said in this video i do feel this is worst console generation or gaming generation yet it sucks it has nothing on the sixth generation or even the seventh generation of consoles they were the best generation ever better than this so called generation of gaming. i’m finding it very very hard to find good games to play on my PS5 .I’m so disappointed and extremely upset on this console generation.
I definitely lean more to being a PS5 gamer as far as consoles go(I do Xbox gaming on my PC) and even I am struggling with finding enjoyment with PlayStation 1st party stuff. There's plenty of good games to play, but they usually launch in a weird condition haha.
I primarily play PS consoles, but I haven't even seen a reason to buy a PS5, it's mainly my PS3/PS4, Switch and PC, I just spent the money that would have gone to the PS5 on a Steam Deck OLED instead (the SD will be here early this week). They're just not pumping out any interesting games, let alone good exclusives (everything is coming to PC now anyway).
@@WorkInProgressslo I sold my series X and bought a PS5. That was mostly b/c there were a good number of PS4 games that I haven't played yet. I mostly enjoyed Last of Us 2, and Horizon Forbidden West was stunning. I also enjoyed Death Stranding Director's Cut. Haven't had a chance to try ghost of tsushima yet.
I think jrpgs fans are eating good, so many great releases coming out this year, I can't complain.
Next month is gonna wild for JRPG releases!
Well. JRPG fans can speak.
As a JRPG fan, this year is like Christmas. Playing Like a Dragon Infinite Wealth right now and it is one of the best games I have played so far. There are so many J/RPGs coming out this year I'm interested in.
Maybe JRPGs are popping off now because of the lower cost of development. Guess it would be significantly quicker than releasing a 4k open world adventure game.
Jrpg fans don't play games, they watch cutscenes.
This is part of the reason why I'm looking into retro gaming and older titles. Game Devs seemingly relying more on "Live Service" and "Always Online" titles have pushed me away from a lot of gaming from the 9th gen. This is the year that I went full PC, and the only two titles I'm looking forward to it are Tekken 8 and Final Fantasy VII Rebirth (which will hopefully get a PC release quicker than the first Remake title got).
I love final fantasy 7 that's to me the greatest game of all time but I'm not getting anywhere near the rebirth I mean it's cleaned up looks better on all that but at the end of the day it's just not worth multiple chapters coming out of the same game and I seem to remember they did that to Chrono trigger on PS1 and it turned out to be the same game with some cool cutscenes for the same old price they didn't break it into five different games and charge you the same amount for each different one that just seems like a scam to me but like they say there's a sucker born every minute but in my defense I'm an old-school gamer so the way it looks is only part of it and it's got to have good story good game play and the story you can't really improve upon the gameplay can't really improve upon so all you're doing is cleaning it up and paying five times as much it's just not worth it
I agree and that's why I only paid $30 for the first one.
The layoffs are disgusting. At a time when games are more successful than they have ever been, this is just such a cynical move. I can't help but think that corporations are laying the groundwork for a shift to AI assisted development. Those inflated budgets are, mostly, not due to labor costs. That money is being spent on contractors, stupid licenses, and corporate consultants. The cost of labor is only a piece of the puzzle, yet they absorb the punishment for irresponsible executive spending. The workers get hurt while the execs continue to glad-hand and make backroom deals with other ultra-wealthy vultures.
It’s a logical step after a buyout. It happens all the time with everyone. Why? Because you have to get rid of positions that you already have within your own group. There are not gonna let go of the Microsoft marketing team, so they let go of the Activision one. They do that with every positions/teams that they already have.
@@awesomereviews1561 they laid off an entire development team from blizzard which was working on a survival game. What are you talking about?
Does it make you feel cool to defend a 3 trillion dollar company?
Firing over a thousand people is never “a logical step”. It is a greedy one.
Meanwhile Nintendo’s not laying off anyone and have been the most successful they’ve ever been.
@@eetdarichmarx7423 Notlike Blizzard games are that successful anymore. Activision Blizzard has money making mobile games. And thats it.
I’m surprised there was no mention of Nintendo at all during this video.
Because the switch is technically a 7th generation console
@@Dan6-789zw actually, it’s technically a gen 8 console
@@Dan6-789zwThat would be the Wii. I’d consider the Switch to be gen 8.5.
Well, that's because Nintendo doesn't play with grown-ups, it plays its own game!
I feel another video game crash coming.
Agreed. $70 games, ridiculous development budgets, poor working conditions, explosion of subscriptions, and loss of ownership are all major problems.
Too big to fail on that level at this point. But I understand your sentiment completely. Consoles certainly need to do some thinking tho, yes. Nintendo is good right now in that respect but can only hope they pull it off again w next console
@@jdee0 Honestly, I hope so too. It is not at all sure that the Switch 2 will succeed because look what happened to the WiiU: A pretty good console released after the amazing success of the Wii with a great retro library(even if N64 VC was kinda cr*p) and even a decent original library...but it crashed against the wall hard enough to be abandoned real fast.
It won't be anything like the crash of '84, but I do agree one is coming. It's possible we're experiencing it right now.
Said it before and I'll say it again paying $70 for a single piece of entertainment in 2024 just does not make sense it doesn't I don't care people think that gaming is cheaper than ever was before as b******* gaming is not you can get hundreds and thousands of hours of free entertainment for nothing on can charge $70 for 1 single game in 24 it just doesn't make sense it's b*******
The recent years have been pretty weird for me to say the least. I'm now in a point in my life where I can invest far more time than before into gaming. At the same time I find myself less and less interested in new releases. Might just be because I missed a couple of hype trains and skipped the first games in now popular series and thus lack in general attachment. On the other hand this also gives me a rather unique perspective on the current state of the gaming landscape. So what recent releases have I played? um do Pikmin 4, Fire Emblem Engage, Zelda TotK or Baldur's Gate 3 still count?
As for the classic tripple-A western publishers or Sony or Microsoft? Nothing. I mean I'm pretty much caught up on trailers but after a while they just blended together until I wasn't even sure which game was which anymore. I mean yeah they certainly look nice but that's basically all I can remember. That said I feel I can't even say they're style over substance because I can't for the life of me remember if any of them even had any coherent style to speak of 🙃
All of those games still count and I definitely understand where you're coming from.
I'd even say Pikmin 4 was a disappointment due to how damn easy it was, while Totk was just recycled content, and an unhealthy abuse of the copy/paste function for the sky islands. Or maybe exploring the game world was fun? Too bad, here are your summonable flying machines that trivialize exploration too!
hey man, nothing wrong with being autistic
I've missed out on so much beyond call of duty Ghosts that I'm incredibly detached from new games nowadays which is a shame since I do have a better PC now and much better equipment too overall.
@@VinnyUnion pretty much in the same boat. Got a beefy PC but nothing of the new stuff speaks to me so currently I'm playing mostly retro and indie games on it that hardly get the GPU fan spinning :/
Honestly, this generation all you need is a Nintendo Switch and a PC that can run Steam so you can play Indie games.
The PS3 is my favorite gen when it comes quality and quantity of great games. Lot of people overrate the importance of graphics. Better graphics doesn't equate into better gameplay. The PS3 graphics still looks really good even today. The graphic leap from ps4 to ps5 isn't that huge jump too. The big selling point for the ps5 system is that it plays ps4 games too.
This is why nintendo always survived. Zelda metroid and mario/kart. Those 3 titles are always bangers. And nintendo always puts their hearts into those games every single time. Xbox and ps always slacking on the IPs. Especially xbox. Own all the consoles. And still playing switch. No real reason to own these next gen consoles. They just collect dust.
Bro what. Nintendo been putting out recycled junk since idk when. Sony does the same with all their remasters and remakes.
The fact we have to pay 70-250 a year to play online is crazy,
Bro if you play like 3 games it covers Xbox game pass ultimate. Not including the discounts you get.
@@dutyrover946 See your the problem. Online gaming was always free on PS2/PS3. But have fun opening your wallet to multi-billionaire corporations so the CEO's can keep buying multiple proprieties and drive exotic cars and sit on a beach in a few years once they retire with all the money from people like you.
The Switch IS HD, in BOTH docked and handheld mode. 720p is still HD.
Although I have a Windows 10 PC and a Switch (the only next-gen system I own currently), I'm still getting another next-gen console as not all PC ports work well, and not everything will be on Switch.
When comparing Multi-Platform Games on older systems such as the Atari 2600, Genesis, Game Boy, PS1, Dreamcast, and Xbox 360, there were differences in visuals for each platform and their respective competing systems.
Nowadays, the only discernible difference between games available across various platforms is their resolution and framerate. Take, for example, games such as DOOM Eternal, Monster Hunter Rise, Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown, and Dragon Quest XI. These games look more or less the same on every platform.
Considering this generation made all big budget games 70$ and keep it at that price unless their is a sale. Steam sales are great don’t get me wrong but consoles only put games that are dead on sale or you have to pay a monthly subscription to get any good deals. It’s such a scam they think “pretty graphics+ dramatic movie cliches is fuckin masterpiece quality” according to major game journalists.
I’ve been disappointed by everything realeased in the last 6 years, besides little games popping up that are trendy here and there every big budget game has felt like a waste of time and not worth the price. Yes technically I’m putting time into these games, doesn’t mean I’m enjoying any of it and usually just put them down and never play them again
Last gen I wasn’t playing in 4k 120hz in Dolby vision Dolby atmos full rgb 10 bit hdr amd freesync etc etc.
I got a PS3, 10 games, and two working controllers at the price of one unfinished Gen 9 game
im actually jealous of this LOL
Thank God for Indie devs. I've been playing more indie games rather than these supposed "AAA" games as of late. The PS3 era to me were the last days of genuine gaming fun. Not every game in this era is bad, but compared to the catalog we had from the ps1- PS3, I'd take that over DLC's/season passes/monetizations/ hyper graphics ANY DAY
I’m convinced that the PS3/360 era will never ever be topped. Firstly, A Huge jump in graphics compared to the previous gen and also one too many masterpiece Storyline games within a short span of time by game Devs..
It makes me wonder if ive just grown out of gaming as i move into my mid 20s or if games just lack any innovation and create the same looping gameplay
It's repetitive and the more you play the less impressed you'll be
@@michaelarojas I find more enjoyment in old retro games, at least the music was nice and the scenery was serene
@@hre2044 Me too I have PS1-PS4, NES, SNES, and GameCube.
I find that my tastes in the types of games that I play have changed quite a bit. I'm in my 40s and grew up w/ atari - PS2. I'm still having fun but far less games impress me now. Plus my reasons for gaming have changed drastically. I now game to be left alone, relax, and escape :) BG3 was an amazing experience for this time in my life. Fast twitch games = ugh, no. haha
This is defo the WORST generation in gaming so far, since my atari 2600 days.
As a JRPG enjoyer none of these problems really apply to me they don't really draw on the full power of the system
Tears of the kingdom is capped at 30fps not 60 fps lol.
Yeah this dude talks out of his ass
Most people can’t really tell the difference between 60 and 30.
@@liammcnicholas918 🥴
The sentence in which "Tears of the Kingdom" and "60 FPS" were mentioned was in the context that TOTK did *not* meet the criteria that would justify a $70 price tag, like maintaining a 60 FPS framerate, which could be interpreted that way, _or_ could mean that it can't _because it never reaches it in the first place._ Odds are he is aware of this.
If you cant tell the difference between 30 fps and 60 fps there is something wrong with your eyes 👀@@liammcnicholas918
I’m happy I never got into 9th gen Gaming. I’m more of a retro gamer now. I still enjoy my Sega Saturn, SNES, N64, Switch, Genesis & Dreamcast. Have plenty of games and plenty of memories
What about Nintendo switch what generation does that fit in? Because it's sold damn near the amount of the PS2 so would that in mind what would you say about switch?
Not counting gross gen games or remakes/remasters, I have only seen 2 interesting/good games so far: Baldur's Gate 3 and Hi-Fi Rush.
Maybe I need to look into the Switch 2, especially if it's backwards compatible because even the PS Vita is more appealing than the Xbox Series and PS5 at this point.
What makes the PS Vita particularly interessting in 2024? It had the reputation of basically being a cockroach that didn't want to kick the bucket, but I haven't heard people talk about it much after 2020, so I just assumed the pipeline was finally running out.
@@lpfan4491 If you jailbreak it, it runs all PS1 and PSP games and supports SD cards. Hell, it even got official ports of the old PS2 God of War games, Ratchet & Clank, Sly Cooper, Jak & Daxter, Final Fantasy 10/10-2, Metal Gear Solid 2/3, etc. It's the only portable console I still own.
Of course if you just look at the Vita library on its own then yeah, it's mostly underwhelming because the PS4 has gotten most of the exclusives the Vita got. Including its killer apps Persona 4 Golden and Gravity Rush.
I never bought a game that had a game-breaking bug. I don't know what kind of trash you were buying.
Gen 8 sucked too. Gen 7 was the last time it was any good, but the decline was beginning
Okay I have asked this question before but what happened to all the game studios Xbox or Microsoft bought a couple of years back like I think one of them was Ninja theory or team Ninja and I can't remember the rest because there was a lot of them but did they closed them down? Thanks
Ninja theory is working on hellblade 2
You guys have been playing GTA V, Last of Us, and Skyrim for 15 years
If physical media fully disappears, then im quitting gaming full stop
Never been a better time for Retrogaming
Hi! i don't think you mentioned it in this video, but what about cloud gaming? With microsoft laying off physical media employees, i'm a bit worried that, for microsoft at least, they are pushing hard for gamers not to own their games, and maybe for the next generation, not even owning the hardware to run games locally.
Cloud gaming and the push towards an all digital and possibly an always online future os definitely a concerning topic. As far as Cloud Gaming goes my biggest issue is that it could potentially require pretty fast internet speeds. The rural part of the US that I live in has really good internet, but that can’t be said about other rural areas. Then as far as MS laying off done folks in a physical media department, I have heard that they could possibly be outsourcing that. I guess we’ll know one way or the other soon.
@@WorkInProgressslo Thanks for the reply, sir. Great video as well btw. I'm genuinely surprised you don't have more subscribers. Have a great day! :)
I will offically quit modern gaming if that happens. Its time for me to get good with GDScript, C# and C++!
Absolutely. This is the only gen since NES where I did not bother to get the system. And I don’t regret it. 😂😂😂
“Production cost”= paying exorbitant salaries in coastal big cities where costs are the most- leasing lavish buildings full of amenities such as gyms, pool tables, cafe and coffee houses in lobby, daycare, and partying it up internationally with game journalists. 🎉
The sheer piles of gen 9 consoles I see at my local game trading stores is getting hilarious, as if anyone needs any more signs that console gaming has officially drove off a cliff.
Meanwhile Switch is still selling great. Too bad for PlayStation and Xbox 😂😂
@@Adamtendo_player_1for Xbox, PlayStation is selling great😂
I’d wager someone local to u tried to hoard consoles and couldn’t sell them before production became normal 💀 had to sell at a loss to the store
That means nothing at all. It’s always the console from the current generation that you find the most in trading stores because they are the most available to resell.
I traded in my extra series x for some ❄️ that doesn’t mean console gaming is dead dude.
The PS5’s true power hasn’t even been utilised to its full potential as of now and they already talkin about releasing a PS5 Pro next year 💀💀
Yeap, I find the jump between gens less impressive, the market has grown a lot in the last 5 years, companies are trying to get things out as fast as they can and try to creat the next big GaaS, imo that mentality is cousing a lot of issues... Great video btw! Thanks for the content
Thanks for watching, I greatly appreciate it! I initially thought when the Gen started that things were looking good, but in some respects it almost feels like things have regressed or at the very least peaked.
The mid Gen consoles of the previous Gen made the jump even less impressive as well.
@@caddermeran Perhaps there shouldn't be mid gen refreshes anymore. I know, I don't see myself getting any "Pro" version of the PS5 until I know that my base PS5 is being pushed to the absolute limit.
60fps + XsS = new gen dead on arrival. Basically specs be improved by 2 for Vram and Gpu and massively for Cpu. Unfortunately this advantage never be used because almost pc gamers have not 8core cpu.
@@WorkInProgressslo The console being cut from 60fps to 30fps doesn't suggest it is hitting its limit? This isn't exactly powerful hardware. I remember when PS4 launched with AC Unity and Unity did too much than what the Jaguar CPU was capable of, so they had to tone it back. That's really the tough thing with consoles, is figuring out what to cut and what you can leave in, and hoping it comes out and over all quality product. I was playing AC Valhalla the other day on PC maxed out, and jumped on to my PS5 version to see my build, and was blown away at how much cuts they had to make to get it running on PS5. It looked like a sloppy mess, but the game itself ran completely fine when I played on PS5. Same thing with Metro Exodus, these games have to make huge cut backs to run on consoles. I think the idea that consoles have so much to max out is due to good marketing.
After buying several unfinished games, i got fed up and stop gaming for a few months. Recently, i played ps1 games (bugs bunny lost in time and castlevania ) and got hooked. Emulation is the way for me rn😉
Niiiiice bugs bunny dude. I still got my copy from childhood. Never beat it tho
The Xbox One reveal made me switch to PC, BEST decision in my LIFE getting a gaming PC, never even missed console gaming.
PC gaming is for nerds and weirdos, console gaming rules.
Keep sucking up to the corporations that sold you shoddy games.@@Adamtendo_player_1
Got a prebuilt gaming PC last year and it opened up a whole new frontier in gaming for me. decided that I won't be purchasing another console for the forseeable future.
Just because you switch to pc does not make you a god 🤡🤡🤡
@@firsonic125 Geez! someone's insecure.
The fact that kids are playing tetris and classic pinball machines in 2024 brings a little joy to my cynical heart.
Im more than happy with my PS4 and Switch ( as well as ll my older consoles), nothing the ps5 has warrants the purchase of a new console,when the ps4 and switch are also getting all of the modern games as well
Staying on PS4 is downright stupid when the PS5 could play PS4 Games too. The moment they announced PS5 to be backward compatible, I sold my PS4 Pro right away for 250 dollars and played mainly my 3DS, PS3 and Vita while waiting for release. I add that 250 to buy a PS5 at launch, and I get to play both PS4 and PS5 games.
@@megabassxz PlayStation is overpriced and overrated there’s nothing on PS5 that would make me tread my Switch for, I have all I need with Nintendo, no bullshit downloads I get the full game on cartridge with easy to pick up and play games that are the most polished with no bugs, Nintendo puts PlayStation and Xbox to shame in quality and sales.
@@megabassxz Nah PS5 is completely irrelevant at the moment, there's currently NOTHING special library wise about it that warrants buying it. Also it didn't help that the PS5 has only been available in stores for the last 2 months which is complete bs. I don't sale my old consoles because great games are stuck on those specific consoles. I have modded jail broken Vita and PS3 which are godlike, I literally have like a thousand games installed for free each from every console and arcade as well as emulators installed. I would never sale them they blow the PS5 out the water
@aegisreflector1239 I have a Steam deck for the emulation of older games as well as PC games. Final Fantasy series, Resident Evil series and Tekken alone, makes the PS5 worth it already. If I can play both PS4 and PS5 games in one machine, there's no point in keeping one more and losing shelf space.
Personally I've been playing tons of games from the previous generations (PS3, 360, PS4 and Xbox One) it's the best time to pick up these systems as they're fairly cheap to buy the hardware and the games are also cheap, not to mention there are tons of great games for these systems you can sink many hours into. It's the best option right now if you don't really care about the current generation.
4:00 i’m not sure when “music in the background of your video“ became a thing with some people on RUclips but you really need to dial it down.
Why do you think it’s a good idea to have loud big band jazz music playing behind your video?
I've been saying the same thing for a few years now. It's friggin' ANNOYING!!!
@@E.Jean_Carroll-MILLIONAIRE I’ve made similar comments yet never had someone explain why they do it.
I got an Xbox Series X because of backwards compatibility.
Same here, playing old xbox and 360 games.. atleast something good in the bad we have.. ps5 is worse 😅 only able to play ps4 and 5... easy choice
My PsVita is still killing it. That thing was ahead of it's time for sure.
games really havent evolved enough to warrant a new console tbh. they keep proving it by still selling ps4 versions coming up on 3 and a half years after launch
That really does not prove anything. PS2, PS3 and even PS Vita continued quite a bit after their time to shine.
I'm enjoying gaming, but the thing is that the only thing improved upon from last gen is load time, prices and the gig size went up but storage didn't unless you spend another $100 for it. They don't need to come out with a new console every 7 years, you could probably double that time and it would be great for everyone.
It seems like they need to double the time anyway, imo. I feel like they're never ready w/ new games for the new consoles anyway. Current gen gaming is still stuck in gen 8, 4 years later.
I agree if we’re talking about the ps5 but I’m here on my series x gaming on my OLED tv with Dolby vision Dolby atmos amd freesync 10 bit hdr and my game pass. And in 4k 120hz 4:4:4 full rgb. The ps5 can’t do none of that ☠️
Honestly, I wish we could go back to gen 6 being cutting edge. Back then, developers cared more about gameplay than graphics allowing for more high quality releases.
I got my ps4 in 2017 and started building a gaming PC around that time too. I can honestly say, I'm probably not gonna go further upgrade wise. The games I wanted that have come out recently for ps5 still came to ps4 and I can still update and upgrade my PC for a fraction of a new ps5 so I can't really justify paying for a new console. Plus I just bought a steam deck OLED. Unless I get an itch for a Nintendo game, I'm pretty much done with new games. Now if these games could stop having unbelievable system requirements, I might be ok...
As a patient gamer I’m having the time of my life 👌
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I was so excited and lucky to get a next-gen console on release day. First year was no banger, but I understood it took time for devs to ‘learn’ the hardware. After that I started trying games I’m wasn’t so keen on just to get the next-gen experience. With the exception of a few titles, I’ve been extremely underwhelmed.
The ps5 and series x feel like pro version of the ps4 pro and Xbox one x and most games are still on last gen or are simply remastered
The past few years of gaming have been pretty bleak. I've taken this time to go back and play all the great games from years past that I missed. I must not be alone because old game prices are skyrocketing. Nintendo might be the only ones running with a sustainable plan for the near future. If this keeps up I wouldn't be surprised to see a new competitor hit the market running if they can get solid exclusives.
I got the gameboy advance addon for the Switch just for the very purpose of playing some older games from my youth. I've been replaying Golden Sun which was one of my favorite games back in the day.
I've been building up my PS2 collection and snapped up some good Xbox 360 deals over the past 5 years. So yeah, you're not the only one:P
Isn’t the Switch part of 9th Gen? Like how the Dreamcast is part of 6th Gen yet released before all of the other 6th Gen consoles. I mean the Wii U is clearly 8th Gen, the Switch is more powerful, isn’t backwards compatible and is competing with the PS5 and Xbox Series X/S. I honestly do get the generational system, cause the PS4 Pro is clearly 8th Gen along with the Switch, yet the Switch completely replaces the Wii U while not being just a portable Wii U. Would that mean the Switch is like an 8.5 Gen or whatever like the PS4 Pro? Because every time I think of the Switch I think of it along with the PS5 and Xbox Series X/S.
I’ve been getting hit with this comment a lot and it seems like the general consensus within this comment section is that the Switch did technically kick off Generation 9. I’ve had discussions about this with some people would argue differently, but upon looking into it further, I can’t really argue that it’s NOT part of Gen 9. I regret not looking into it while writing the script for this video. Thankfully another consensus within this comment section and others in the gaming community is that Nintendo does their own thing and doesn’t seem to care where it’s at and neither to their fans.
Nintendo consoles kind exist in a grey zone. Wii U released about a year before the other 8th gen consoles, yet it was closer to 7th gen in terms of power. Wii had the same sort of idea, being much closer to 6th gen in terms of power and releasing just before the 7th gen consoles. Switch released well into the 8th generation and was much weaker than other 8th gen consoles.
Nintendo doesn't really compete with other console manufacturers anymore. Nintendo have so many IPs that they can sell a console purely on their first-party games.
@@user-ev5fp7mk7i WiiU was Gen 8th. The Switch was a generation over the WiiU, more powerful and isn't Backcomp. The switch literally started Gen 9. Since the Gamecube Nintendo wasn't the most powerful. Switch is literally winning Gen 9.
Great video, Work in Progress. I see you put a lot of effort into this video. I always wanted to get at least he PS5 for the 9th generation, but there is no rush for me.
Thanks I appreciate it! At the rate the gen is going, and if you’re willing to wait for PS games for PC, you might as well invest in a solid PC or just wait out the generation.
Me either. I would only use it to play ps4 titles and I need a bigger hd so I’m in no hurry unless my PS4 takes a dump
Honestly guys I would recommend buying a steam deck and then installing emu deck on it, I’ve been emulating a bunch of 6th and 7th gen games and I have played on that more then any current console. Like bro ssx tricky and 3 really be hitting differently now😫
If Microsoft go ahead and purchase Steam (like they've been hinting), then that party will come crashing to an end.
I realized that every time a video is made called “Modern Gaming is dead/sucks” it never reflects the state of the actual gaming industry, but instead reflects the content creators struggle with growing up.
No offense directed to you-I’m speaking broadly,, however I realized that all of these videos always mention the generation that they grew up with as the peak of gaming, usually the tail end of the 6th generation and all of the 7th generation- generations in which these content creators were young kids and very early teens. When you are young, any game even the licensed games were enjoyable because you still had youthful innocence to back up the enjoyment for the games. You probably played couch co op with your siblings which made any video game fun because you were experiencing the game with someone else.
Now, as we are all adults nearing early twenties all the way to late thirties, we have experienced it all, the good and bad. Like an amusement park, we went on all of the rides-some dozens of times. Gaming was once a hobby that amused us, but like all things that give enjoyment, it runs out eventually. We inevitably want to try out new rides at different amusement parks but we have grown so attached to one spot that we have a hard time moving on. We grew up with gaming, it’s been there threw thick and thin but gaming didn’t grow up with us.
When we were kids enjoying the ps2/ps3 GameCube/Wii OG Xbox/360, there were adults just like us now saying modern gaming is dead. We have become old. And that’s okay.
I'm roughly 40 and have been hearing the exact same things since the PSX era. This whole comment is spot on. Everyone yearns for how games made them feel as a kid/teen, and don't realize they've changed, not the games.
You’re absolutely right. I’m one of those older gamers. I started on a Commodore 64 and an Intellivision. A new Gen is just getting older. Life is starting to punch you in the face.
Now, I happen to still enjoy gaming. When I have time, I sink my teeth into BG3 a few times per week. I’m also a huge Souls fan. Still having fun as I always have, I just can’t devote the time I used to.
And prices? Man, $70 isn’t bad. Weren’t my Genesis games like $50 in the early 90s? Sonic and Knuckes was probably $60? That’s, what, $110-$130 for a new game in today’s money? And those games weren’t even that long. 2-6 hours was normal. Bang for your buck, a new game goes a lot farther than it ever has. Hell, if I go out, $70 wouldn’t even be that bad of a bar tab. A game could entertain me for well over a hundred hours for that price. Inflation has been KIND to games in comparison to the rest of the world.
A new generation is just getting older, that’s all. I remember when us Xennials did it, the millennials, and now the Zs.
Doug Stanhope had a joke about nostalgia and how ‘back in the day’ was so great. No, it wasn’t. Youth was great. That’s gone. You’re fucked.
Exactly. Thank you sir.
6th gen > all of 7th gen imo.
@@fawkkyutuu8851 you wrong
Nintendo sitting there with their seven year old Switch that sold 100+ mil units: 🙂
I might be old and Jaded but I've seen no reason to upgrade from my PS4. I have a competent enough laptop to run the Microsoft titles I can't play on PS4 (and a M2 mac mini if I really want to get weird). I've still got some old consoles lying around too for retro gaming. I definitely feel like I'm privileged enough to live through the 90s and 2000s in gaming, they were some special times. AAA Gaming is stagnating imo due to corporate greed but I'm sure there's indie games etc that are worth attention so theres that
I really loved the new r&c game, but it is on steam now as an option as well.
I remember back in the day with the gamecube where you could shut your eyes and pick a game at random off an entire shelf of games in a game store, and it would be a 7 out of 10 minimum by the standard of what games were epected to be at the time.
It's worth noting that game prices have only just got back to around what we were paying for a Cartridge 30 or 40 years ago, with inflation they are still historically quite cheap.
Oh yeah, I’m well aware. Video games were a small fortune back in the late 90s when I’d be asking my parents to buy them for me. I think $60 back in 1996 when the N64 dropped was close to $100 in today’s money. People tend to only see what’s on the surface, and on the surface the prices went from $60 to $70. Sure prices “went up” but we should all be great full that the gaming industry didn’t follow inflation or else we’d all be paying $100 to $120 for our games.
@@WorkInProgressslo There's also the need to keep in mind why they were so expensive back then, how few people were involved with gaming comparatively, how much more difficult cartridges were to develop, etc. A lot of the savings we got from videogames not keeping up with inflation is because of the media switching to mass produced CDs and Nintendo continuously learning how to make convoluted cartridges, on top of the massive market.
I guess what I'm getting at is the runaway cost of development due to graphics chasing and making the "Forever" game finally have destroyed the savings from better media storage and all digital purchases.
cassette tapes and floppy disks didn't cost that much.
Literally yes, but the issue isn't the price of games, the issue is skyrocketing inflation and cost of living causing people to have less disposable income to purchase things like games. It's why everything is becoming a "cloud" based subscription vs actually having to purchase things, most people are broke and in debt. You will own nothing and be happy. Basic luxuries like videogames are becoming inaccessible to people and eventually will become a cloud-based service where you pay a small sum because that's what everything is going to be.
The racing game genre exemplifies how few quality games we get nowadays. Burnout? Died over a decade ago. Project CARS? Gone. Driver? Ancient history. Midnight Club? Died 15 years ago and got effectively cannibalized by GTA Online.
Gran Turismo and Forza Motorsport? Both burnt through 5+ years of development just to release a pair of always online live service disappointments. Hell, those two in particular haven't released anything that was really good since the *7th generation.* All we've got now is The Crew Motorfest (always online), Test Drive Solar Crown (which is also always online if memory serves) and yearly releases (like the F1 games). I don't even know if NFS is doing anything this year, and even if it does, it very well might suck because EA's gonna EA it. Damn...
It probably sucks for those that ran out and got their consoles at launch 😂😂😂. If like me you got a ps5 last October you’re probably having a blast. I own 6 games. 5 of which I’ve barely touched, or haven’t played yet because I haven’t been able to put down Returnal since getting it New Year’s Day.🤷 all of my games were bought pre owned, cheapest being £10 Life is strange true colours and the most expensive being Kena bridge of spirits for £20, I also have Returnal which cost me £19.99,NBA 2K 23 which was £11, watch dogs legion for £12.99 and Control ultimate edition for £17.99. Neither Kena or Returnal are on Xbox and Returnal isn’t on last gen systems.
I got mine we I did my taxes back in Feb 2023 and I only got that so I can play CP 2077 Elden Ring Demon Souls and Lies of P.