Persoonlijk heb ik geen geld voor een Next Gen console en zie ik er eigenlijk niet het nut van in, want alle games die ik wil hebben dit na jaar zitten nu in mijn current gen consoles. Dat ze er dan iets mooier uitzien op de Next Gen kan mij eigenlijk niks schelen. Anyway, hier is de lijst en hier onder kan je mijn favoriet zien.

Graphics Aren't Everything

So, let's cut the crap - the reason you or anyone you know would ever want or care about an Xbox One or Playstation 4, right at launch, is because they look pretty. And, yeah, they look REALLY fucking nice!

Here's Battlefield 4 running on a Playstation 3:


And here's Battlefield 4 on a Playstation 4:


The difference is pretty astronomical! Lookit all those particle effects! That dynamic lighting!! All that detail!!! OH MY GOD!!!

Which is all fine and dandy, but judging from nearly every review of the game out there, all the extra polish and nice features that are exclusive to the next-gen console versions doesn't significantly improve the game. No sir; the reason that Super Mario World and Sonic the Hedgehog still hold up as classic games is BECAUSE they're still classic games. They looked pretty goddamn amazing compared to 8-bit games in 1991, which is why everyone bought the damn things, but even a significant leap in graphics isn't enough to become a fixture in the gaming pantheon of greatness.

The Playstation 2 had a strong library of some of the best games ever made, but nearly all of them - save for the timeless Ico - were released well after the first year of the system's life. I guess you could make the argument that buying a Playstation 2 when it launched eventually paid off, but remember that trying to buy a Playstation 2 at launch was a special sort of madness. "Manufacturing delays" meant that shipments to nearly every major territory were cut in half, and the system flew off shelves in record time and quickly popped up on the then-revolutionary auction site eBay, charging outlandish amounts.