10 Reasons This Is the Greatest Gaming Generation

The PlayStation 4, Switch, and Xbox One are amazing. How amazing? Well, they're contributing to what could end up being gaming's best generation. Here are ten ways they are making gamers' lives better.

[PhoenixUp]

Didn’t even include Wii U in this huh? Trying to pretend it doesn’t exist and that Switch is an 8th gen system

[Segata]

It's not. 1990-1999 is the best and it's not even close. Games back then took more risks and were more varied. Loot boxes did not exist. DLC was called an Expansion pass and actually expanded the game. Not microtransactions. Gaming had more noticeable advancements in visuals and sound. Consoles were truly different offering something unique in hardware. Arcades were very much alive. The best PC games ever released that decade. Some of the most high profile franchises launch then. Racing games weren't just sims but also arcade racers. EA was not the only one allowed to make NFL video games. Anyone could make licensed sports games and not all sims either. NFL Blitz and NBA Jam! SEGA,Sony, Nintendo at their best. Gaming was of course always a business but in the 90s there was integrity to making games from big developers that are now gone. EA would sell poop on a stick if it made them billions. They truly do not care about games. It's purely business now for most big-name publishers. Not just profiting on games with creative integrity and pride put into it. I know some devs are still like that but the industry as a whole isn't.

[ilikestuff]

Well said. Ff7 and metal gear solid as well

[DragonPaw]

Meh, I will admit that games were great in the 90's, and it didn't take a top of the line PC to run games (well decent), BUT games have progressed so much. Now, you get games that combine mouse click adventure games and third person games. Everything is the same as the 90's but it is better. It is not as new. There isn't a ceiling to break through like their used to be from consoles to PC. Graphics are sharper, but if you can see Mario in a few pixels that questions the true relevance.

But every generation is the best generation, because things are always getting better. It is people from the 90's making today's games with the best methods available. Everything seems better in "the good ole days".

[Master of Unlocking]

The greatest gaming gen? With games that must be entirely installed on the HDD, even when bought on disc, meaning you only get to play a tiny handful of games at any given time, even when you have a 1 TB HDD? The gen of the generalization of microtransactions and season passes at that. Online play now stuck behind a paywall on PS. No support for audio CDs, or 4K HDBR when the PS3 played normal BRs and the PS2 DVDs and the PS1 CDs, barely any backward compatibility (I'm talking on PS)...

[PiNkFaIrYbOi]

I'd say that the fourth through sixth generation was the best time for video games. Now it is all dlc, microtransactions, loot boxes. incomplete games upon release, have to download games to hard drive to play and on and on it goes with even more crappy stuff.

[chris235]

ooops i guess that was a teenager who blogged this :/ we are far from the best generation. in fact the gaming industry is pretty much floating dead in the water.