Eurydace said:CompanyOfWolves said:I'm going to start putting a penny in a jar every time I read an article that predicts the end of console gaming.
Why do you disagree!?
Because it get’s said about every generation and every time I see it written or hear it said it makes me think of those guys wearing a cardboard “the end is nigh” sign. It might happen, sure, but for far more complex reasons.
Your article was a fun read, but there are omission made to make your analogy work. That’s fine, it’s opinion based and not fact and I read it as more a humorous comparison rather than cold hard fact. You could have worked the Cold War in there, given how much sneaking around and propaganda is employed in game marketing these days.
Clearly you didn’t do your homework though as gaming is clearly following the path of the Star Wars franchise.
The Original Trilogy: We had A New Hope in the NES era, it was crude and the graphics don’t hold up too well but damn it we love it for being there and bringing us into the magic. Then The Empire Strikes back with the SNES/GENESIS era and it was like everything we loved about the first one had been perfected. The Return of the Jedi brought us the N64 and the Playstation and we all ended that generation looking hopefully to the future with the ghosts of the past along side us.
The Prequel Trilogy: We all went into this one with so much hope and such high expectations. The PS2 and Dreamcast had so much promise but ended up being a Phantom Menace, surviving more so on past success and brand name than actual quality. Things got worse and The Attack of the Clones continued with the birth of the PS3, over-hyped, over-budget and underperforming.. All was not lost though, The Xbox and the 360 allowed The Revenge of the Sith, while not as good as the classics there were glimmers of magic in there…
The New Stuff: Now we have a generation trying to define itself on its own while still remastering its own legacy. It’s more crowded, seems like there’s always more new games and genres making it to consoles every month, a Force certainly has Awakened though with VR and AR and all the questions they raise it remains to be seen if it’s a bright future or a Rogue One…