Your "Gaming Saturation Point"?

[Hazerd]

I still dont have a Xbox One or PS4, want to get a PS4 though for Uncharted 4, and the new God of War.

But i also have a huge backlog for 360 and PS3, and i just dont have room for anymore consoles.

Just wish every game was on Steam, Mario Kart 8 on Steam would be damn awesome.

[Jmustang1968]

As far as being overwhelmed by library size, I don't have that issue. I can select what I want to play with no issue if I had a library the size of 50 games or 5000. To me, I would rather have more to choose from. I also have done a fairly good job of getting rid of games from my collection that I don't think I would play or would enjoy playing.

[noiseredux]

I still dont have a Xbox One or PS4, want to get a PS4 though for Uncharted 4, and the new God of War.

But i also have a huge backlog for 360 and PS3, and i just dont have room for anymore consoles.

Just wish every game was on Steam, Mario Kart 8 on Steam would be damn awesome.

Yes! This guy gets it.

[Tanooki]

Yeah that's it in a nutshell. Though part of it is if you've been doing this for literal decades, the whole cyclic shebang gets old. Sometimes I do get jealous of people when they can still get excited for new game systems based on the hardware alone. I can't remember the last time that happened to me. Maybe the original DS? Probably that.

I don't get jealous of that, but come to think of it, the last time I really got happy about the guts inside of a system it was 2001. Gameboy Advance of all things, finally after so long of Nintendo dragging out and in late years improving the old beast to the Gameboy Advance, it wasn't until that jump and the early images, videos and audio that I was blown away. I had to find out anything I could, and I used my underground connections I had (was an emulation warez dog back then) to get the just leaked GBA tech documents taken off Warioworld.com and I'd just keep reading them and checking out the early demos (oh the stuff I could write that would not make some happy.) That was the last time I really went nuts with the jump in quality and loved every moment of it and how much people could eek out of the hardware. Tony Hawk stunned me with the little 3D guys, but then you had V-Rally, and finally the long hyped Blue Roses engine for Wing Commander and that was insane.

Gamecube did it a bit for me too as it was a hard hop from N64 to that and I loved getting into it as well but never had the same impact. After that I just didn't care as I just played stuff and dug it, but it's never been the same since back then.

[laurenhiya21]

I'm not sure if I understand the idea completely but... Personally I find myself flip flopping a lot between between whether I want want to just go through the games that I already have, or buy and play what I want, no matter how many games are in my library. I know there's nothing wrong with either approach, but I can't seem to pick one or the other, or strike a balance between the two. It's kind of annoying honestly. Hopefully I can figure out something at some point ha...

I am getting a Switch at launch though. While it's not like there are a huge number of games that I'm interested in right away, I haven't really been part of a system launch before so I thought it would be fun I guess haha. For every other system before this one, I both didn't have anybody to talk about it with, and I also wouldn't of had the money to buy a new system anyway. So uh, maybe that's a silly reason but I'm getting it anyway haha.

[o.pwuaioc]

I hit the saturation point with the PS2. That era was really just too much, so I ended up selling my Xbox and DS, and my PSP library won't reach ten. The Wii is my wife's, so my dozen GCN games get some use on that, too, but otherwise there's very little point in exploring the gen and zero interest in going further.

I will play certain games released later on Steam (Road Redemption is great, a heavily modded Skyrim became fun for another dozen hours or so, and of course Civ V is a perennial favorite), but aside from a few high ticket items, even there my overall interest in later games has waned. Meanwhile, my love for pre-PS1 systems has never been stronger.

[Exhuminator]

Gamecube did it a bit for me too as it was a hard hop from N64 to that and I loved getting into it as well but never had the same impact.

I'm going to have to agree with that, 5th gen to 6th gen tech was a helluva leap, not just in hardware, but noticeable graphical improvement. I was excited about the graphical evolution back then. I don't think 6th to 7th gen was nearly as dramatic, and even less so 7th to 8th gen. At least from what I've seen.

[Kuruwin]

I agree that leap from PS3 to PS4 doesn't feel that amazing graphics wise but undermining the leap from PS2 to PS3......Come on.

[Sarge]

I agree with Exhuminator. The PS2/GC/XBOX generation really helped developers expand what they could do on a system, and enabled much more polished experiences than the rough 3D we got from the N64/PSX. It was a huge leap.

The PS3/360, while certainly bumping up the graphical fidelity, still very much felt like a simple extension of the previous generation. Most games on those systems could have been accomplished (with an obvious loss of graphical fidelity) in the prior generation. I won't deny it was a jump, but compared to the PSX -> PS2 jump, it paled in comparison.

PS4/XB1 is definitely a smaller jump. There are some nice things, but it's basically PC gaming now, without the benefits that the PC often provides. Still, gotta have some of those exclusives.

[Tanooki]

I agree too it's not undermining it's kind of just peeling away the bs to the reality of it. The jump from the N64/PSX to the GC/PS2 was huge and opened doors the other couldn't do much in the way how the jump from the 2600 to the NES blew minds as so many more open doors and new doors that never were there in the first place due to limits. The hop from the NES to SNES (albeit not a HD jump) is more like how the PS2 to PS3 jump went...a hell of a lot more prettier and could process more stuff going on, but that's really it. The PS4 jump yet again basically even less notable other than wow you can now see even more fine details and even further back draw distance without a blurring or cloud effect to cover up limits...but that shouldn't be a selling point on a game being worth the leap.

Perhaps the market is saturating itself because now you don't get much new at all nor do you get much of a bump in wow factor either outside of a slim amount of stand outs. As noted it's like you have a closed PC with non of its benefits (can't really upgrade it, can't do many things at once, can run updates/installs while doing other things, having to pay to use multiplayer stuff which Steam/GoG Galaxy etc do at no charge.

If anything if you think into it a little despite being slapped stupid for it, the thing sold a metric crap ton of systems, and I'm speaking of the Wii. Nintendo perhaps saw the writing on the wall, that's why they diverged as they saw the homogeneous blob coming. They got one right, and one wrong due to sticking to very outdated hardware from 2001, and now Switch if preorders and odd interest you didn't see from game makers last gen may lead one to think it has a chance to shine trying something stand out again. I know haters throw out the gimmick argument, but what are you going to do when the mass of what there stands out little anymore other than to a core audience? Bail, change gears, or experiment.