The Top 10 Annoying Things About Next Gen
- October 11th, 2006
- 8 Comments
The bashing, ranting, and rumors of the console wars have begun - and only one of the three next gen consoles is out on the market. If you’re already sick of hearing about the console wars, you better tune out of video games for a while until every gamer ends up owning every console. Maybe then there will be some kind of peace among us. Until that happens, Unfettered Blather has posted a list of the top 10 annoying things about next gen, starting with:
10. Still waiting for Next Gen to arrive
When the Xbox 360 hit the market I thought, “It’s here! It’s here!” Boy was I excited. With the last generation of the console wars clearly won by Sony I was ready to see how the new competition was going to shape up. So far it hasn’t shaped up at all. Microsoft has their team on the field and the other two teams are still in training camp.
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9. Letting Microsoft define the Next Gen market
Microsoft has a ten mile head start in a fifty mile marathon. That means there is still plenty of time to overtake them, but that’s still one hell of a lead. No matter how you look at it, Microsoft has essentially placed the next generation on their terms. Everyone else has to play catch up.
8. Stupid name changes
With Nintendo’s revolutionary ideas, revolutionary control, and an approach to the console market that leverages their position as a smaller, more flexible, and more innovative company, they had the perfect name for their console. Instead they decide to change the name to something that will inspire pee jokes for the next ten years. Brilliant, just brilliant! The best part is realizing the person who came up with the name “Wii” probably makes more money than I do. [Oh there's no doubt. - Ed.]
7. $60 games
With Microsoft facing little competition, they can charge whatever they want. Gamers have been complaining about the high cost of games for awhile, and raising prices doesn’t seem like a smart move to me. After all, it doesn’t matter how much a game costs because the price is pretty much fixed upon release, so the amount of copies sold means everything. Even so, the next gen market is still small so Microsoft needs to get the most for each game it can. Besides, it’s not like anyone else is out there fighting them. Expect this trend to continue till after Christmas when all the consoles are released and retail hits their usual yearly sales slump.
6. Microsoft’s Multiple Personality Disorder
Probably not Microsoft’s fault really, but it is fun watching titles getting released on the Xbox 360, the Xbox, and PC all at the same time. I need the 360 why?
5. Who needs backwards compatibility anyway?
It was the mini-trend we hardly knew. Once we saw the PS2 could play Playstation games it seemed like we had a sure thing on our hands, especially with Microsoft being the kings of backwards compatibility with Windows. Alas, it seems all for naught. A major selling point for alot of these consoles would be the ability to still play all your own games, but for whatever reason the development teams just couldn’t figure it out. I still wonder if the 360’s compatibility problems are as bad as people make it out to be, but gamers are clearly not satisfied, and Sony’s mewlings aren’t building any confidence.
4. Chasing Nintendo
You can’t just ignore changes in the industry, but it sure is fun watching these two mega-corporations scrambling to keep up with Nintendo’s ideas. Of course it’s one thing to respond to change, it’s entirely different to come up with new innovations of your own. Nintendo is playing smarter this generation, will they keep it up?
3. Cost between consoles and computers vanishing
$60 games? Expensive peripherals? Consoles being released at a $600 price point? Anyone notice that desktop computers just continue to go down in price despite becoming ever more powerful? Consoles still have a lot of advantages over PC’s, but the most powerful incentive of console games is weakening.
2. Dual price SKU nonsense
“You can buy our system or you can spend $100 less to get a castrated system. Wow! Are we a great company or what?”
1. Sony’s Alternate Reality
No matter how you spin it, we still just want a game console first. Go push your format war somewhere else.
Bandit3 (Who am I?)
1 year ago
10) PS3 the computer? I love the PS3 as my favorite Next Gen system. And feel in some ways its the only Next Gen system. After 35 years of life hear and 28 of them gamming. But I don’t want a PC. Granted they just tried to use this as a advertisement of how much it could do. But a PC it is not. Its a multimedia game machine.
9) Systems and companies banging each other. Thus hurting the industry. I think Sony and Microsoft by far are the worst at this. By the time you get done reading on these two. And what people believe about them. Neither machine looks to be worth 2 cents. Its one thing to bang bars a little. But they have went so overboard with attacking each other this time. Its ridiculous. Both are giant companies. And I think booth need to learn to get along a tad better. Neither one of these two is gonna take out the other. So lets back it down a little. Because from stuff I know. Its getting way to serious.
8) FPS? Ok I like them some. And I know their easy to program. But 3rd person and action, and a new forms of platforms. Were the new age we first saw on the PS1, Saturn, And even into the PS2 and Dreamcast. A new age after FPS’s. Why are we going backswords.
7) While im on FPS. Does the first 4 or 5 FPS have to be WW2 games again. Need I even say more on that? A little more innovation their please.
6) Let time tell the story. PS3 will fail. 360 will fail. PS3 has this problem. 360 burns up. Lets give these systems some time. And some a release at last. Before we start nit picking every little thing.
5) Sad games getting high scores. Ok Oblivion is a good game. But game of the year? I have yet to see a 360 game that has really made me go wow, were into something new. Will see 9 out of ten games for both systems latter on I’m sure. But not yet.
4) Wii is the question. I love Nintendo. But Wii is really the question. Its right up their to when Prince changed his name to a Symbol.
3) Price to high? This is a new age. This is a industry that is on its way to surpassing movies and all other forms of media as the number one media pass time. You spend 1,600 on a game PC that does not have motion controls or several ports. Or that plays on HD TVs as big as a wall. 600 and 360 499. For what were getting into. I rather spend 600 for a super machine. Than 1,200 hundred that some mom just spent on her new still camera. Ill say it now. With all the prices I’ve seen out their over the years. For what you get the prices are justified. You want to go play Super Mario 64 or Pac Man. Go by one of those little 30 dollar, plug and play things. I would like to still get a sports car for 12 grand like in 1988 again to. But a Z28 in 88 was about 12 grand. A Z28 in 02 was over 40 grand. The PS3 will sell. The public has still shown that the Playstation is still it. And in till proven otherwise. I don’t see anything to disprove this fact.
2) Not making the leap. Im sorta on the 360 for this one. Its a good machine. But for some reason it dont seem to be a True leap forward. More like a upgrade. We been stuck with these currant machines now for what 4 to 5 years or so. I don’t want just a slight upgrade till 2011. By which time Graphical power and media .Will be even way beyond this. When you make a change only every 5 to maybe now 7 years. You need to make a huge leap. Or else by 08 or 09. Your gonna be in some trouble.
1) Something Ive studied “back to number 9.” And something I have people I know, that have looked into deeply. But the worst of the worst has been brought out. And somewhat low and tricky stuff is going on, in the underground’s of the gamming industry. Mainly the Anti Sony or Nintnedo and 360 movements. That almost are like gangs. Granted I know about the Sony one. And they also have a plan to latter discredit the 360. All over every News article they can get into. And even little things like constant posts from these Anti groups. For one thing, it wont work. You cant tell everyone how bad a machine might be. And than after it comes out, and looks good. Than that makes the system all the more appealing to the public. The systems will sell themselves if their good. Nothing can stop that. Its some of the most unreal tactics of discredit every little thing, on every system. And its getting vary ugly. And every force of a movement. Is always gonna be countered. If not now, latter. And you don’t really want to make the Penguin people mad lol. Believe me. Its not worth it to do this now. Because they will retaliate. And are planning to in some pretty major ways. And what was supposed to just gamming. Is gonna turn into people getting hacked, and lives getting ruined. If it keeps up. This stupid hate stuff. Will be a full blown online war. Do we really need this, just for gamming? People are gonna start to have to back down. Or its gonna get vary ugly. And believe me. The one who is not playing the game to much yet thier. Is the one who has the upper hand in this.
Otter03 (Who am I?)
1 year ago
I like the post, especially the Revolution’s name change to the Wii. What pisses me off is that you wrote maybe 100 words of it, and you didn’t even link to the original author (something CrunchGear forgets to do way too often). Writing “Unfettered Blather has posted” doesn’t count, and you know it. So I’ll do it for you:
Top 10 Annoying Things About Next Gen [Entire Post Courtesy of Unfettered Blather]
webonics (Who am I?)
1 year ago
#8 about Nintendo’s name change was my favorite. Such a bad, bad marketing move. Hopefully, the “brilliant” mind behind the Wii name was canned.
webonics (Who am I?)
1 year ago
#8 about the Nintendo name change from “Revolution” was my favorite on the list…such a bad, bad marketing move. Hopefully, the “brilliant” mind behind the name change to “Wii” was flushed from employment.
GamingHobo (Who am I?)
1 year ago
I believe it is traditional to actually provide a link to stuff that you post - or at least a source!