People are still calling the next gen Xbox "720"? It's still a placeholder I hope. Such a stupid name.

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This stuff's all well and good but I'm quite easily pleased with graphics, so I'm not really fussed with 6x the power when Uncharted/Rage/Rayman Origins/God of War 3 still blow me away.  Certainly not fussed enough to happily spend what will probably end up as £299 anyway. 

The main thing on my wishlist is for downloadable games to not jump up a level with the generation leap.  There's plenty of bitesize stuff for me to play on XBLA/PSN/Wiiware, and that's perfect for my tastes.  I'm currently spoilt for choice with side scrollers and quirky, 4-5 hour titles.  If that changes, and downloadable games go all low-level current gen standard then the next set of consoles can GTFO.

I will buy new machine and I hope the graphics are super amazing until then I suppose I'll make do with what's around now.

2013: The return of Segata Sanshiro.

EvilRedEye wrote:

Liveinadive wrote:

Unfortunately the end of this generation is notable for the stagnation in creativity unlike other generations where some of the most creative games have arrived late on. A new generation may or may not fix this but at least it will be pretty looking.

The Wii hasn't had a bad Indian summer with its triplet of quality JRPGs. I guess it doesn't help that this generation has been a bit longer. Also, this generation has been more Western-oriented, with shorter localisation times for games from foreign lands. Games like Okami took almost a year to be localised, so while they might have looked like late bursts of creativity, they were actually developed a bit before.

Agreed, I tend to look at the Wii as a separate entity, like the PC market. The Wii U will shake things up a bit for a year if nothing else.

Webbins wrote:

Bollockoff wrote:

People are still calling the next gen Xbox "720"? It's still a placeholder I hope. Such a stupid name.

It's Durango at the moment, they probably spent as much time brainstorming the codename as they have the real name.

I hope not

The lack of creativity is a direct consequence of Western companies dominance / current Japanese creative stagnation. Their emphasis is on money making leading to more milking of existing IP. Japanese companies have traditionally shown more innovation. 

This may be bollocks. I've got a sore shoulder and had some codeine so might not be thinking clearly.

monkey wrote:

The lack of creativity is a direct consequence of Western companies dominance / current Japanese creative stagnation. Their emphasis is on money making leading to more milking of existing IP. Japanese companies have traditionally shown more innovation.  This may be bollocks. I've got a sore shoulder and had some codeine so might not be thinking clearly.

I would say it is true of the big western companies when compared to the big Japanese ones. However there is a hell of a lot of creativity in the smaller western teams, mainly through the marketplace stuff.

I guess now we have these consoles with loads of computing horsepower and huge storage media, certain kinds of games aren't going to be distributed through the traditional physical disk format, just because it doesn't really make a lot of sense. You might look at games released as physical packaged media for the 360 and PS3 and say "there's not a lot of creativity there" but maybe that's just because games that make sense for that method of distribution have gravitated there whereas the kooky creative releases of previous generations are now digital downloads, portable games or smartphone apps.

I am not so sure about the "This gens graffix are fine by me" thing.
I mean, Batman AA, Skyrim, BF3 etc... All look great on my 360 but is that because I literally haven't seen them running on better hardware (YouTube etc.. Don't do them justice)?

I think they'll be massive improvements in the details. As good as the games mentioned look good at distance, close up (eg. BF3) there is still some crude texture work going on. BF3 on console, to me, feels like a game that couldn't wait for the next gen.

Webbins wrote:

BF3 on console, to me, feels like a game that couldn't wait for the next gen.

Or it could be telling people to fuck off and buy gaming PCs.

@Bollockoff: That would be an expensive alternative.