What Can Sony, Microsoft And Nintendo Do To Save Their Consoles?
With Nintendo reporting a $97 million loss even with Mario Kart now out, is it all over for console gaming?
We're now past the halfway mark in the year, and some nine whole months from when both the PS4 and Xbox One launched - adding another year on for the Wii U - and still there are no games that are make us glad we put down the money for the machines in the first place. By this stage last generation we'd had the likes of Fight Night Round 3 and Hitman: Blood Money doing the rounds on both of the bigger consoles, with Tom Clancy's Advanced Warfighter and Elder Scrolls: Oblivion edging the 360 in everyone's favour. That's not to mention the PS3 was gearing up for Ratchet and Clank and Little Big Planet, and every Wii user was suitably enamoured with the phenomenal Zelda: Twilight Princess. So in comparison what have we got? A downgraded Watch Dogs that despite the things it actually does well, remains a spectacular failure in comparison to the original screenshots. The Xbox is struggling to stay afloat as it is, as the only titles synonymous with the system are either My First Hack 'n Slasher Ryse: Son of Rome, or the micro-transaction filled mess that is Forza 5. With the general consensus on the Xbox One being that it's a complete failure with or without the Kinect, Nintendo reporting in that they're out of pocket by $97 MILLION, and Sony's Playstation Plus service being chock-full of throwaway indie titles - what do you need to see from The Big Three to restore your faith in them? Let us know in the comments what you would do to 'save' console gaming, as although that may seem a tad hyperbolic, it feels like soon enough we'll all be PC worshipping Steam-devotees at this rate.