What are we calling this generation? (Wii, PS3, Xbox 360)

[buggy65]

I'm tired of hearing our current gaming consoles being called the "next gen" consoles. However "current gen" just doesn't roll off the tongue. I think it's time we denote an actual name to these consoles.

I've been calling them the 7th gen consoles (look at Wiki for why we are the 7th)

What do you guys think?

 

[DoctorNick]

I always just say 'The Current Consoles' and the like.

No reason to make it more difficult than that really.

 

[JeanLuc761]

Ignoring the Wii, I consider this the "HD Generation."

Basically, this is the first time any game console other than PC is capable of 720p/1080p resolution graphics and it's also a time of HDTV gaining massive popularity.

 

[Dexomega]

I call them piles of plastic. It really is a great catch-all.

Seriously though, I just call them the 7-Gen consoles.

 

[BlindMessiah94]

Fucking Retarded.

We have the PS3 which is great, but seems to fall a bit short in just about everything, we have the 360 which is fun when it's not broken, and we have the Wii, which has about 3 games that I actually find playable.

This generation generally sucks.

Generally speaking I agree with you.
I think the ps2 GC era was actually the best, but ironically I never purchased either of those consoles until much much later (this generation). They had the most games that I found to be artsy, creative, original.

If you must have examples then, Shadow of the Colossus, Iko, Eternal Darkness, Beyond Good and Evil, etc.

As for naming this generation...
"Buying time until virtual reality is invented?"

 

[Misterian]

the age of innovation.

seriously, game companies, with consoles and games in general, seem to devote themselves to trying to avoiding the idea of being generic.

 

[Super Toast]

the age of innovation.

seriously, game companies, with consoles and games in general, seem to devote themselves to trying to avoiding the idea of being generic.

I really hope your joking. I might call it the online generation in the future. This generation is definatly what really got it started.

 

[Admiral Stukov]

The "I don't care generation"

I mean I don't even have a TV so consoles are way below my radar.

 

[Razhem]

The "Only FPS can sell" generation. Sooooooo many FPS, and I hate the damn genre so much...

 

[Vie]

"Law of Diminishing Returns" Gen, or LDR Gen.

Seriously, what's the next generation going to be like? We already know the current selection are cripplingly expensive both to produce and to own, so is it even possible for the next one to be more expensive? Or will we see a regression? Lower hardware costs but better performance - is that possible with upcoming tech?

 

[Erana]

For some reason, I keep calling them, "Fourth-gen," and for some other weird reason, people all know what I'm talking about.
Really, I just refer to the "gen" by the platforms I'm talking about.

 

[Volafortis]

The-gritty-realism-/-gimmicky-with-a-bunch-of-shovelware-generation.

What I really call it? Current Gen.

 

[More Fun To Compute]

The last lot of consoles was next generation so this lot should be called deep console 9.

 

[TheDuckbunny]

Ignoring the Wii, I consider this the "HD Generation."

Basically, this is the first time any game console other than PC is capable of 720p/1080p resolution graphics and it's also a time of HDTV gaining massive popularity.

Yea, first thing that came to my mind aswell.

 

[The_Healer]

The wireless generation?


Seriously, everything has suddenly lost the constrictive tangle of wires.

 

[Weaver]

Fucking Retarded.

We have the PS3 which is great, but seems to fall a bit short in just about everything, we have the 360 which is fun when it's not broken, and we have the Wii, which has about 3 games that I actually find playable.

This generation generally sucks.

Generally speaking I agree with you.
I think the ps2 GC era was actually the best, but ironically I never purchased either of those consoles until much much later (this generation). They had the most games that I found to be artsy, creative, original.

Buuuuahhhhhh???
IMO the best generation was the SNES era. Honestly, I can even play an SNES now a days and STILL enjoy a lot of the games over current ones. People just knew how to have fun, you know? Everyone got the kinks out of game development, they had new spiffy 16 bit graphics and they could make some really cool stuff. The N64/PS era was again great, but we had a really rough start with the whole 3D thing. By the end though, there were again just bloody fantastic games.

Then the Gc/xbox/ps2 era hit. Gaming started to get popular (like, really popular) and no one wanted to take a chance anymore. We just started going "make graphics better!!!" and that's basically what happened. Of course, there were innovative gems; Eternal Darkness, shadow of the collosus, stuff like that. Now in this generation, besides the wii which is now just a work out machine, we have more push for better graphics.

I really REALLY liked the wii around launch, everyone wanted a slice of that sweet motion pie. But the luster just died off. 3rd party devs just basically gave up and nintendo stopped making anything that appealed to me. I LOVED Galaxy, I LOVED brawl - but putting out one game a year that I enjoy isn't really cutting it.