Wii-U has Zombi U, which to be honest, I think is at the top of its genre. That includes left4dead and the like.
I suffer from game loyalty, not console loyalty.
So for example I'll be buying a Wii-U when the next Zelda and/or Xenoblade successor is released.
I'll be buying a PS4 when the next Uncharted and/or God of War is released.
I'll be buying an Xbox 3 when the next... erm. Well, no games really grabbed me that much on the 360 but when something big is released on that I'll buy one of those too. Shadow Complex 2 would probably do it![]()
Right at this moment I feel both Sony and Microsoft are moving away from the core basics of gaming and the further they move away (like Nintendo), the less interested I'm becoming. I've had a 360 since launch and a PS3 (for a while) and I've enjoyed them, but nothing of what I've heard about the PS4 excites me and nothing rumored about the next Xbox does either. I just see a list of 'features' I don't want.
Maybe I'm outgrowing gaming, who knows, although I personally think Microsoft and Sony are changing what gaming or games consoles are and its taking the fun away for me. I look at how the 360 (PS3 too, but to a lesser extent) has evolved over its 7+ years with its software and hardware and its almost unrecognisable now, Aside from improvements to the quality of the hardware pretty much all of it is wasted on me.
I just want a console, a pad and to sit and play a game or watch the odd film.
I don't want to exercise, if I did I'd go outside and ride my bike, I don't want to dress an Avatar or take a tour round a virtual apartment, I don't want to browse the internet or go on Facebook, I have a PC for that.
I can really see me not bothering this time around, but that said, if there's an exclusive I simply can't live without I may end up buying one or the other as I have no particular loyalty to either.
What a bizzare post.
It's like saying you are going to write your essay on a type writer because a PC can play games, browse the Internet, etc... When you only want to write an essay.
Just because it does a lot more, doesn't mean you can't can't write your essay better on the PC than you can using a type writer, or even a PC with nothing but word installed as perhaps a better example
I never said it would be any less of a console, its more that its no longer just a console, and thus has killed my interest. It's a personal thing and maybe something to do with my age, who knows.Yes just because it can do something like let you browse etc doesn't make it any less of a gaming console. The functionality is there if you want it but if you don't then that's cool too.
Well, I'm a bizarre person
That's a daft analogy really.
PCs have and always been multi-use devices and always will be, I use my PC for a lot of things, internet, work, video editing, gaming etc, i.e. intended use. Consoles have always been pure gaming machines and they are evolving into something else and they are, for me, losing their appeal. Of course I can ignore all the extra features of new consoles (I do currently) but I then have a expensive piece of kit that has lots of extra uses that are all wasted on me, so why bother? I'm not saying no one else should have or use them as I'm sure there are people that will love all the new features and that's fine, but its not for me. Hence right now, I doubt I'll buy any of the new consoles.
I never said it would be any less of a console, its more that its no longer just a console, and thus has killed my interest. It's a personal thing and maybe something to do with my age, who knows.
I can kinda see his point if those features unneccessarily bump up the consoles price, like the PS3 with BD and now the Kinect sensor in the next Xbox, if you arent interested in those features at all, its not hard to see how some might be turned away - its not like they are 'free' features - either the price goes up or corners are cut elsewhere to keep on price - yet to see which one the next Xbox decides to aim for...Fair enough that's your preference. Personally I couldn't care what features it has (usable or not) so long as it lets me play the latest games. I'm no spring chicken either but I will probably always want to buy shiny new things!![]()