How am I trolling? GTA and Ico may be a few years older but they're still sequels that are only a year or two old. And none of the games I mentioned are FPS games. And they still make Resident Evils and the like. I hear good things about Dead Space, maybe check that out. There's a lot of titles out there. Just deciding they're all shit for whatever reason doesnt sound like you're giving them a look whatsoever.
Ico is 11 years old, and its sequel is 8/9 years old, the PS3 wasn't even out by then !
The thing why someone else and me found the post ironic is that most of what you have mentioned is not the type of games we are searching for and exactly what we were criticizing as being the current money makers on consoles. Also, you are mentioning almost exclusively licenses that are releasing sequels after sequels (GTA, Resident Evil, sports/racing games). These don't satisfy everyone, I mean I liked the first GTA (although I prefered Driver back in the days) but it never made me dream and I never got interested in the new ones. And yeah, Dead Space and Mass Effect are some of the few original games of these past years. Still, what we miss is that era in the 90s where every month there would be a new videogame. A "lot" is very subjective to you imo, last time I went to the gamestore I found it quite empty in interesting releases and there were so many Fifa/PES/Cod/GTA available including all the previous ones in Platinum next to them, it's definitely not like in the PS1/early PS2 era (sorry for always referring to playstation but that's what I had back then) where there would be shitloads of games including random ones which sometimes happened to be cool. I also kinda miss the plethora of japanese RPG games, some of them were just gems. I think the big licenses like Fifa or COD are such moneymakers (Call of Duty is worth more than the Avatar movie IIRC) that they draw all attention from the videogame companies developing them. Fair enough for them because at the end of the day a company's goal is to make profit but it's a bit too bad imo.
To get back on the topic, so basically what you guys are saying is that it could be the last generation of consoles of this kind ? Since the further we go, the less their interest in terms of performances vs PC, and the more videogames will be downloadable as opposed to be released on physical media ?
I'm a bit skeptic about Sony's strategy to bound your games to your PSN ID (I suppose that's how they would do it ? or would it be to the console ID ?), while I don't care about the fact they wanna avoid us to lend a game to a friend (so that in the end the friend doesn't buy the game himself), I can see it being annoying. It's not gonna affect myself in any case but I understand the frustration
I thought of something funny about the pricetag of consoles. For something unrelated, I wanted to check the evolution of our minimum wage salary, and with inflation it has increased by 15/20% since 2005/6. So what was the price for those consoles back then, would be effectively equivalent today to their 2006 price + around 80/100e. I would be happy paying 100e more and having drastically better CPU/graphic card that would make developers happier.
