Poll: Are you going to support NEX GEN Consoles?

[Winterfel]

Really, I never heard anyone complain over the N64 or the GC for not having backwards compatibility.
How hard is it to slam that cartridge into that big black piece of plastic when you want to play some DK64? If you really want to get rid of your old console that bad then the games for it can't be -that- important.

 

[Sixties Spidey]

Absolutely not. If the rumors are true, fuck the next generation of consoles. I don't care if the games are awesome or not, I'm not supporting an entire generation of consoles designed to fuck customers over.

 

[renegade7]

Only if they support me, IE not blocking used games and not blocking backwards compatibility.

So far, it seems the Wii U is my favorite, simply on those grounds.

Even then, I won't be a day one adopter...I'll probably wait for a price cut and for the flagship titles to start showing up used.

 

[tacotrainwreck]

I'm not counting on it; I'm a pretty tough sell nowadays.

Give me a PS4 that can play all playstation games at least back to the PS2, then I'll definitely get it. If it cleans up my console mess, sure. If it adds to it, Nah.

 

[Rad Party God]

If it's not as bulshitty as rumors are making it seem to be like and if it doesn't turn out to be as expensive as I think it'll be, maybe.

Meanwhile, I'm pretty happy and comfortable with PC gaming.

 

[Fishyash]

I'm just going to wait and see.

I have no issue with lack of backwards compatibility, personally, but it is a very bad thing to give limited/no backwards compatibility. What if your game lineup on release is utter shit?

Also, no used games is just retarded.

But, these are just rumors. I really hope this isn't the case. If it's not, I will be getting a new console, if it is, I will just upgrade my PC.

 

[Charli]

Nope, I have my PC, I will let my friends handle that mess and just borrow off them.

 

[barbzilla]

I'll probably do what I always do. Upgrade my PC and wait for the consoles to start breaking. Find a couple of broken consoles, buy them for dirt cheap, fix them and then play the few console games I want to play while I wait for the next big PC release.

 

[Atmos Duality]

Handhelds, maybe.

Everything else. Definitely not. I have the last console cycle to blame for a noted drop in quality for PC titles; most being lazy ports running outdated APIs and control schemes ported from Xbox360 equivalents. (Hell, even Skyrim is running directly-ported flash plugins for its entire interface; enjoy your huge drop in framerate if you plug a controller in!)

If nothing else, the shift in popularity forced development of new quality PC titles to stall for nearly half a decade. Oh wells. Some markets grow at the expense of others. That's economics.

Whether next gen consoles are going to be worth a damn remains to be seen. Nintendo is perfectly content playing from 5 years behind the tech curve, Sony is pushing the Vita (an actually great piece of hardware whose biggest drawback is the company behind it) on top of more DRM for the PS3.

Microsoft, I'm not sure what the hell they're going to do. They're in a strong position that they really do not want to budge from. Sony was gaining on them until they completely lost their fudge last year with a series of bad decisions.

So until then, I'm cautiously playing the field. The Vita is a personal tragedy now that I've finally had a chance to try one; it's the handheld the PSP was trying to be in design (not straight hardware specs, obviously).

I own a 3DS that until recently was more of an embarrassment than a boon. Once the retro gaming blitz wore out its welcome I found precious few titles available for it that actually look good, and nearly all of them first-party chestnuts.
(though playing Minish Cap for the first time...it makes a compelling argument for being one of the absolute best Zelda games out there, and easily one of the best GBA games ever. I have no idea how I missed it.)

 

[Jfswift]

I'm honestly probably going back to pc gaming

 

[The White Hunter]

Well, by the time the next generation from Microsoft and SOny roll around I'll be out of university and actually have income!

So then, I'll have a dedicated PC for gaming and have my old school things (NES, SNES, Megadrive, Matser System, thrhought to my current gen stuff) hooked up to the tv with the gaming rig.

Pretty much because I see both sony and microsoft just fucking over gamers everywhere in some way be it with broken hardware or hardware that costs too much or just a lak of games on either format for a number of years after launch with piss poor backwards compatibility in both camps.

Though I will likely get a Wii U, it looks so very interesting and for some reason reminds me of the Dreamcast, though hopefully it wont sink and die like the Dreamcast.

 

[The White Hunter]

Handhelds, maybe.

(though playing Minish Cap for the first time...it makes a compelling argument for being one of the absolute best Zelda games out there, and easily one of the best GBA games ever. I have no idea how I missed it.)

Somebody agrees with me! =D I love Minish Cap. So very addictive and so very good.

I should also add to my previous post that I too will likely invest ina 3DS and Vita in a couple of years.

The Vita when the library of games isnt shit. Same with the 3DS but more specifically: I will cave in to the 3DS when it has a full-fledged Pokemon RPG on it and since BW2 are on the DS (DSi enhanced thank the gods, why should I have a poorly secured connection just to trade nintendo?) I don't see a reason to buy one for at least another 12 months.

 

[The White Hunter]

I'm just going to wait and see.

I have no issue with lack of backwards compatibility, personally, but it is a very bad thing to give limited/no backwards compatibility. What if your game lineup on release is utter shit?

Also, no used games is just retarded.

But, these are just rumors. I really hope this isn't the case. If it's not, I will be getting a new console, if it is, I will just upgrade my PC.

Backwards compatibility isn't a huge deal in the long run. But that's exactly the problem, if you have a piss poor launch line-up, like almost every console ever created, then backwards compatibility is really a must until later models when the format can support itself with it's own library of solid software.

It's something that Sony really fucked up with the PS3 here in Europe, only on model played PS2 games, played very few of them and had a very limited run. The PS3 library had fleshed out by the time I got mine though thankfully. Microsoft weren't a great deal better than Sony in retrospect but at least they didn't fuck up quite so bad.

 

[malestrithe]

I will continue to support the consoles until the last console generation, whenever that is. I am not going to buy the rumor mill on this one because people tend to believe the rumors if they support their preconceived notions of the world. All this stuff about nerfing Used games sales is one example of that. Sony, Microsoft, Nintendo, and whoever else are not going to do that because it would be a stupid move and only diehard PC heads are saying stuff like that. I guess its wishful thinking on their part because it would somehow vindicate them.

More importantly, the companies will not need to. The direction that console makers will go down is digital distribution, and Sony and Microsoft are already doing some of that.

I'm not sure if PC gaming is making a huge comeback as people are claiming. PC games sales are always a tenth of what the consoles will sell, mostly because of the piracy issue. I get that it is not as big as I might think, but as long as it is an issue, gaming companies will be weary about going totally on the PC once again. Sorry, but as long as 95 percent of the community plays a pirated game instead of purchasing it, it will remain an issue.

About the only people that love the PC are the modders and modding is only a tenth of the PC gaming community. They are a loud and vocal minority, but they are still a minority.

 

[NoNameMcgee]

As a PC gamer I most likely won't be buying a new console but I'm looking forward to them coming out, since it means a big jump in visual and technical quality of games released. I look forward to seeing what the consoles themselves are capable of but I know the novelty will wear off after a year or so when PC hardware is already significantly better.

I used to think I'd be the kind of person to have always have a PC and also a console to play the console exclusives. But as my tastes have changed over time I find myself having very little interest in most of the console-exclusive games released. This gen the major games PC has missed out on are the JRPG's, fighters (except that one street fighter game), some generic stuff like Halo and Gears of War, most Wii games, and pretentious stuff like Metal Gear Solid and Heavy Rain... none of which I care about.

 

[Canadamus Prime]

I currently have no plans to, but that's largely due to financial reasons. Although I am not thrilled at the prospect of a new generation at this point and all these rumors only serve to make me even more discouraged.

EDIT: I'm starting to wonder if maybe it's time I gave up gaming and found a new hobby...

Dude you don't have to give up games lol.
I bet you there are thousands of great games for old and current gen consoles that are just waiting for you to discover. I still buy N64, PS2 and XBOX games to this day. AND I LOVE IT!

Yeah, I know. But aside from the afor mentioned financial concerns (I'm broke and unemployed and can't seem to find a job for the life of me) I just don't know if I have it in me anymore.

 

[Flames66]

Whether they are true or not, I won't be buying them on release. I only got a sexbox a few months ago and I will not be buying a new console for some time. If the rumors are true, probably never.

 

[Waaghpowa]

I love how people are so optimistic about backwards compatibility. Most of the backwards compatibility is a load of crap this generation, how could you expect the next to be any better? (Exception to Nintendo, because being able to play my gamecube games without hassle on a wii is bitchin')

 

[NoNameMcgee]

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Not being a PC elitist here (I say this because people here jump to think conclusion regardless of how civil my ensuing post is) but I don't really like these misconceptions.

PC gaming doesn't need to make a comeback because it never died to begin with, PC gaming is in fact at one of the strongest places its ever been at, thanks to Steam in particular. Also I don't think a lot of console gamers realize that we really do get most of the games you do, unless you love the Wii (we don't really get any Wii games). But we get a vast majority of the Xbox360 titles (including the cross-platform PS3 games), plus our own exclusives. It's definitely not in a decline here, this year we've already had The Darkness 2, Mass Effect 3, Kingdoms of Amalur, Alan Wake (just released this year on PC), Syndicate, Rayman Origins and Ridge Racer Unbounded... I probably forgot some there, and we're only in April. Plus, most people are still busy with Skyrim from the end of last year.

Obviously piracy isn't a huge issue if devs are releasing most of the major games that you get.

In what way does that imply some kind of decline?

(btw, I'm a lifelong PC gamer and don't "love" mods. There's plenty of reasons to prefer the PC, that's just one of them.)

 

[Terramax]

As we are all gamers, we won't have a choice. I don't see any gamer just giving up on the hobby just because of the change of wind in things like digital. We'll moan about it, but eventually find a way of dealing with it.

I will however be less likely to spend as much money on a product, or buy products as quickly depending on the debated factors. I don't buy consoles at launch anymore, but will likely be waiting a good few years for a greater library to be available. Hell, I've only owned my xbox for a year now.