Each generation of vidya produced not only better graphics, but more gameplay possibilities and depth as well.
But this current generation seems to just be about graphics. What new innovations in gameplay have occurred?
I'm talking about just what can be played with the basic hardware.
I'm not seeing any revolutionary upgrade in gameplay on any system.
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the current console gen doesn't have a single good exclusive so there is literally no reason for it to exist. every game has a superior version available on PC.
I'm not seeing any radical upgrade in gameplay on pc either, to be honest.
Thats why you play old games, emulators and exclusive genres.
But that's wrong. We haven't seen more "depth" since gen 6.
Define "radical upgrade in gameplay".
I didn't even do much graphics wise, wii-wiiU difference excepted. It's just the exclusives generation.
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The time and place of consoles came, and went.
The original benefit of consoles were numerous. Accessibility (I know many people who "grew up" with PC gaming have to recognize they only had access to it at that time because of the relative wealth of their family). Along with the necessity of it. Along with things like a universal platform for the developers (you know everyone has the same SNES, for example).
Some of my earliest memories are playing an atari of one type or another. It would be well into my teens before I owned a computer.
People have short memories but owning a personal computer was not an ubiquitous quality like it is now. Nor was having a computer capable of playing graphically intense games.
Now days, this is not the case anymore. Everyone owns a computer, and just about everyone owns a computer which can play even newer games.
The only benefit a console would have would be as a platform for specific hardware (like specility controllers). Something Nintendo is attempting capitalizing on. And somewhat failing at because their gimmicks aren't that profound.
I really don't see traditional consoles continuing into the future. Only something premised on a gimmick would make any sense.
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Really, the last innovation on consoles was online play.