The Sad State of Modern Gaming
I write this as someone who used to play games pretty frequently during the Xbox 360/PS3 era, but slowly stopped playing and paying attention as life got in the way of the free time I used to have to allocate towards it. I finally decided to get back into an old hobby that brought me comfort and purchased a Switch 2. I enjoy it so far minus the ridiculous WiFi limitations, but doing the research on which console to buy, what games to check out, etc. leading up to that purchase has left me floored with how absolutely bad shit is. There’s essentially no new games to call home about on consoles that have been out for several years at this point, and there’s already talks of a ps6?? Just a circlejerk of remasters and AAA microtranslop. I love the Xbox controller and honestly Game Pass is a sweet deal, but aside from that, what the fuck is Microsoft even doing? I couldn’t bring myself to buy a Series X. PS5 would’ve been the best deal between the two, but I don’t care much for the library on PlayStation Plus and honestly there’s just not enough original new gen games to justify the purchase. I’d rather eventually buy a PC. I went with the Switch 2 solely because having never really owned a Nintendo console, I have a massive backlog to keep me preoccupied and can do so with portability. Not paying attention to gaming since around 2013 and suddenly paying attention again, I almost feel violated. This is the future?? I’ve never seen an industry more in desperate need of a makeover.
Edit: A lot of you guys have made good points and there’s definitely a lot of cool indie games out there that I’m not very familiar with. I guess my perspective really stems from seeing the major players with all their vast resources, using them for absolutely greedy purposes and not even developing any new inspired content to remotely justify it. It’ll be a readjustment on my part to just to kind of tune out anything AAA.