10 Reasons Everyone's Giving Up On Next-Gen Consoles

5. There's Not Enough Games

For a fair few console owners, there's a good chance that they are owning their machine of choice for the sake of music and TV services, but it's unlikely that even the most casual of players will shell out $400 for something they can do on their old consoles, DVD and Blu-Ray players, or smart TVs. If you're going to buy a next-generation device, you're likely doing it because you want access to games to the games you can't get anywhere else, mostly because each console's respective owners realise that they can't make money unless your favourite franchises are held ransom. The problem is, there's not a lot of those exclusives right now. At the moment, there's no more than ten playable exclusives on both the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One, with the Wii U - a console that's been failing miserably - having the biggest library of the three. Considering that most of the game's these companies boast about are multi-platform releases (keep in mind that Microsoft started their E3 conference with Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare) they haven't exactly provided compelling reasons to buy a console. For example, one the Xbox One's heaviest hitters is Titanfall, a game that's not exclusive to that platform, and plays better on PC. Microsoft made a big deal about Dead Rising 3 being an Xbox One exclusive, and now it's coming to PC as well. When you're killer apps can be bought on hardware that's cheaper and stronger, you're going to have a problem.