You know what's the most interesting thing about all of this ?
[slight rant]
I was talking to a buddy of mine, talking about how the modern gaming landscape was so boring, with just the 3 big companies, Nintendo, Microsoft and Sony.
I was telling him back in the early 1990's there were so many more competitors on the scene. There was Sega Genesis, Super Nintendo, Neo-Geo, Turbografx, Sega CD, Atari Jaguar, Panasonic 3DO, Philips CD-I, etc, etc all competing at the exact same time. All of them going after the same market, and dividing up the pie like 8 or 9 different ways. Obviously the Genesis and Super Nintendo dominated the market, but there were all these other players that had a chance to claim the top prize. (or at least they thought they had a chance). It was like the wild, wild west back then. Anybody and everybody could make a console, and you really didn't know for sure who was going to come out on top.
Modern gaming is so boring with just Microsoft, Sony and Nintendo.
Where is the modern day version of the Atari Jaguar or Neo-Geo ?
[/ end rant]
So, that was my old take on Modern Gaming. Super boring. No excitement.
Man, there goes that theory. Plenty of excitement on the way now with all these huge companies throwing their hat into the VR ring.
Excitement is back in gaming for the first time, in a long time. Actual possibilities of seeing something knock your socks off, so to speak. Does anybody remember the first time they saw Doom running, and their mind was blown ? The first time you saw Unreal in 1998 ? The first time you played Half-Life ?
Remember those earth shattering moments in gaming ?
It's been an awful long time since I've seen anything that amazing that I actually was so excited about it, that I would even want to talk to non gaming friends about it. Like the first time I saw Super Mario 64. The first time I played Tomb Raider on a 3dfx enhanced PC.