Boy, I bet you're glad you're an early adopter of the new consoles, right? Part of the criticism leveraged so far at both the PS4 and the Xbox One is that there's been hardly any games this early in the lifecycle. This is fair enough; the start of a console cycle is always slow and begins to pick up gradually as we move on. Unfortunately, judging by what we saw at E3, practically everything has been pushed back to a 2015 release date, leaving 2014 looking like a pretty barren year for games. Outside of Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare and Assassin's Creed: Unity, the traditional holiday period where everything comes out is looking a bit like a desolate wasteland. The time period up until then is looking even worse; it looks like we'll all have to keep playing Watch Dogs for a couple of months before re-buying an older game such as The Last of Us: Remastered or the spruced-up version of GTA V. Even Batman Arkham Knight, originally pencilled in for an October 2014 release, was sneakily knocked back into 2015. We'll forgive Rocksteady for this treachery as it looks absolutely incredible, but we're still saddened by the sheer amount of stuff not coming for another year. But hey, look on the bright side - how awesome will next year be?
Dan Curtis is approximately one-half videogame knowledge, and the other half inexplicable Geordie accent. He's also one quarter of the Factory Sealed Retro Gaming podcast.
