10 Reasons To Be Excited About Video Games In 2020
2020 is on course to be the best year in gaming yet.
Despite many years of gaming bliss, 2020 has the potential to dwarf all that came before. There are countless reasons to be excited - new games, gadgets, and a whole new generation of console hardware. We are all no doubt enjoying the last remnants of the current cycle, when developers have mastered current technology and can produce quality games left, right, and centre.
Think back to the end of the previous generation, when GTA 5 landed and became the game that would seemingly last forever - when The Last Of Us dropped and raised the bar to never-before-seen levels of quality. All this because developers had cracked the code; knowing how to draw every last drop of power from the machines they had worked on for years.
Indeed, we are right amongst that 'Goldilocks zone' for the current systems, and have no reason to doubt that trend will continue.
The following list of reasons to be excited is by no means everything great coming this year, but it's a start, and will definitely whet your appetite for all that's possible.
Let me know your own picks down in the comments below.
10. Next Generation Consoles
The harmony of the console wars, where fans of Microsoft, Sony and Nintendo come together and rejoice in the knowledge that, no matter what console we own, we are all brought closer by the industry we find ourselves in love with.
No, that doesn’t sound right, does it?
Gamers will of course be at each others throats, ready to defend the honour of their chosen console, but this year it will be start of the next generation for Sony and Microsoft, so we can at least boot up our shiny new consoles and forget the other side exists.
2020 will see the PS5 and Xbox Series X take centre stage, attempting to get us to switch sides and invest. All of which makes for a fantastic journey up to release day.
Details are fairly scarce around both, but we can be sure graphics will get a heavy upgrade. And how about those load times?
Isn’t that what makes it so exciting though? The fact we head into the unknown, oblivious to what's been conjured up to impress us on the new hardware.
I, for one, can’t wait for both new consoles.