10 Things The Next Console Generation Needs

With the advent of manufacturer-approved and, in the case of Xbox Design Lab, controlled personalized accessories, it came as a relief to most gamers when both Microsoft and Sony announced the controllers we're using on our current consoles will work on the next generation too.

This has led to some discussion about the other big price peripherals that gamers have bought this generation.

The introduction of hard drives on consoles meant that memory cards became a thing of the past, but when we started installing our games, it became clear that the drive space we had was too small to keep that library close at hand.

With both current generation consoles currently supporting external hard drives, that worry seemed a thing of the past. You'd simply download your games and keep the ones you enjoyed on multiple hard drives.

But with the next generation consoles supposedly having super-fast SSDs, the worry is that affordable external drives will no longer be compatible as they won't be fast enough to play SSD-optimized games from. A solution as simple as swapping games from storage to external drive and back again would allow gamers to keep their games downloaded, while playing them from the faster drive.

Make it happen.