You're not wrong, eventually Sony will follow suit with Microsoft and most likely just have a subscription service for games. Logically it makes more sense making your titles available on all platforms and with xcloud growing gaming just from your TV will be an option just a few years from now.

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I'll give it a try for love of the hobby, but you're probably right in the longrun

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Correct. That is literally what I am saying is the problem.

Its the same with all tech though. Take TV's for instance. Back in the 90's I could go buy a Sony TV and know it was going to last for years and years barring any accidents and it wouldn't cost me £3k. TV's today just are not designed to last that long and they cost more too.

Many of those 90's/Early 00's CRT tv's are still going strong today and used by many in the retro gaming community. We won't be saying that about the flatscreens of today in 20+ years time.

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I personally think the issue is that for some reason gamers think the ps5 and series X being able to push high fidelity and high resolution somehow makes games better, We need games to have better gameplay and better story's and such, using the series x to play a game at 4k120 doesn't really matter when the game is riddled with microtransactions, boring story, boring generic gameplay, cliche battle pass and same old level up system.

WII FOREVER SHUT UPPPP

You're kind of making my point for me. It isn't that I don't understand what is happening, it's that I think it is a bad thing. Shorter lifespans for equipment that costs roughly the same (with inflation taken into account) means that if something lasts half as long and costs the same amount, over a comparable period of time it costs the consumer twice as much money. I don't see how this sort of exploitation could be viewed as defensible, but if you're fine with it that's cool.

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No, tech moves faster now than it did in the old days, that's the reason for shorter lifespans, that and the fact that nowadays everyone wants the next big thing as soon as they have got their hands on the current big thing.

Can’t you just send the joycons to Nintendo and they’ll fix them? I’m a rare case of owning a switch since December of 2017 and mine still hasn’t developed drift. I’m sure it’s on the horizon, but small victories for now.

Lol. It commented under the wrong comment. My bad. Sorry, go on with your day

Wtf are you talking about Eddie The Crazy Man

Don't agree, VR is still at the early stages of its tech but it'll improve over the next couple of years, including software tweaks that'll make the quest 2 better.

"All the way back". They are literally just one generation previous.

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My point was more that they're releasing consoles too frequently now.

Personal opinion here, Dump the switch and keep the Series S, save up the rest of the cost for the Quest and have both. :)

Recently got my hands on a quest 2 and it gets used every day by at least one of me or the teens.

The Switch joycons will 100% start drifting eventually, if they haven't already. My Switch is thrown in a box in the loft as I have 6 pairs of drifting joycons now and I absolutely refuse to buy anymore. WORST NINTENDO CONSOLE EVER imo.

Cannot fault the Series X and Gamepass combo at the mo!

Those older consoles were mainly only supported after a new gen was released by a few third party companies.

I agree with the OP, when a new console is launched after a year or so its time for the older one to be left behind. If third party devs want to continue supporting it then that fair enough but the console manufacturer should move on to support the new one only.

The problem we have currently is that new games are still being heavily pushed by both Sony and MS on the OLDER machines. Once they allow the older machines to become legacy devices and stop making devs release the game on both gens then we will finally see some true next gen games.

It never happened back in the day because the next gen was always a major jump in tech, this time around the next gen is really just a beefed up last gen.

We had new games being released on PS2 and the same game being released on PS1, the consoles were so wildly different inside that the 2 versions would have been developed using two completely different devs/publishers and we would get a version of the game that was suited to each console and used it to its ability.

The PS4 and Xbone need to die (a horrible death) before we see the true potential of the next gen machines.