Submitted by Big-Golf4266 t3_yxeq36 in consoles
Big-Golf4266 OP t1_iwojvm3 wrote
Reply to comment by barbanonfacitvirum in Older Gen consoles need to lose support for gaming to move forward meaningfully. by Big-Golf4266
this heavily dpeends on what you're considering "supported" as im mainly arguing for a transition of games no longer being released or heavily updated for the current console, which definitely hasnt been the case for 13 years on the xbox 360, the xbox 360's last release was in 2015, and im not suggesting we shut down all of the servers for old gen consoles.
And honestly i think a decade is more than enough support when it comes to releasing new games. when you think back to 2013, the release of the original xbox one and ps4 and think about what games looked like then vs now and then look at the hardware inside those consoles, retiring them seems perfectly fair, releasing content updates for the games currently on the console and supporting servers for another 3-4 year seems perfectly reasonable, i just dont think we should be releasing 90 percent of games that come out to these platforms still.
ofcourse this is just my opinion but i think that gaming is stagnating a little, though this is primarily visible in the triple A scene, i think the major reason we're seeing such messes from the triple A scene and really ONLY the triple A scene is because of the fact that they're trying to optimise their games for so many platforms, indie titles that are largely locked out of the console market are fairing much better and have become my primary source of gaming nowadays because the quality is honestly at such a standard that i dont think i'd consider buying any triple A games and havent for years because they simply release complete buggy messes that also fail to have anything truly desirable and new about them.
and to be fair, anti consumerism is literally the motto of the console world, these are the platforms that throw money at developers to lock their games down to their platform, charge you exorbitant prices to talk to your friends and unlock a lot of functionality out of your games and charge developers money to update their games leading to a practice of games becoming absolutely content barren on consoles on titles like payday and such, in many ways tightening the hardware gap lightens the load on developers and increases the ceiling potential in a way that i think benefits everyone whilst still allowing those who dont wish to upgrade to enjoy the games they own for several years to come simply being realistic and saying "yeah you know what this console simply can't run these games anymore" because honestly even rdr2 a game that came out 4 years ago, looks pretty much unplayable on an original xbox one... a pixelated grainy mess...
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