Now that Gen 8 is out would you still buy new release Gen 7 games

[Tobal]

I have to admit, I look my my pile of a good 8 or so PS4 games that I've bought since getting the console in February and struggle to relate when people say there's nothing to play. I already have a backlog.

8??? I would hard pushed to mention any game on the Ps4 worth its ?50 price tag as a "good" game. Sony made a lot of right moves with the hardware (ignoring the sticks) but its software line up has be absolutely dire, bang for buck. I brought the ps4 banking on future, I just didn't expect a ps2'esk year wait for anything great to come along.

[Paddy]

Mainly for financial and catch-up reasons I'm sticking with the PS3 for now. Sure I'm looking forward to The Evil Within and Guilty Gear XRD but even they ar getting simultaneous releases on PS3/PS4.

When the wave of must-have titles starts flowing for PS4 I'm sure I'll feel the pressure to purchase one. Kind of hope this year's E3 has loads of announcements on that front.

And a personal wish that Capcom announce Street Fighter V is in the works. Its about time.

[Neil]

Still buying for 360, in the last week have been catching up and have purchased GTA V, Gears Judgement and COD Ghosts for ?30. More games on XBOX One that I'm tempted by but holding out for sub ?300 price point and a few more games.

[EvilBoris]

I have to admit, I look my my pile of a good 8 or so PS4 games that I've bought since getting the console in February and struggle to relate when people say there's nothing to play. I already have a backlog.

I'm the same, I'm having the make a concerted effort to finish games on my Xbox , as I'm acquiring them faster than I can complete them. Especially since getting a multiplayer staple in Titanfall.

I bought South Park new on 360 and if there is anything else I want to buy I will grab those too.

[dataDave]

I'm in the WiiU backlog club.

It's a lonely club.

I also have Rising and Bayonetta to 1000. I've not even tried Rising's DLC yet. Free, innit? I've also got to try Dark Souls at some point, and Dark Souls II. I think I'll be done with last gen after that.

Excluding Xenoblade Chronicles that is. I need to find that for cheap.

[J0e Musashi]

I said goodbye to last-gen last February. There's a few games I want to play, but I'll just go without.

[dataDave]

I may purposely save Xenoblade and Dark Souls until they've been out for ten years and then play them as fresh retro, like I did with Symphony Of The Night.

[J0e Musashi]

Start with Demon's. It's a much better game.

[jamesy]

Haven't bought any of the new consoles yet as I'm still playing titles I've missed out on for ps3 and 360. Having said that I won't be buying any more cross-gen games. I'll wait until I've gone next-gen for any titles such as The Evil Within etc.

[Asura]

Just to offer a contrasting opinion to many here, I will be continuing to buy PS3 games, even new ones, for the foreseeable future. I won't be buying a PS4 until either I've ran out of PS3 games I really want to play, or the machine becomes very cheap (<?150) or a game comes out on the machine which is totally unmissable - whichever of these comes first.

Looking at E3 2014 with interest here, as I've not been particularly tempted to upgrade yet.

[Brad]

Yes. Ps3 is my favourite console ever at this stage and I'd still buy new games for it.

[J0e Musashi]

If I still had my PS3, I'd be buying the same as ever. I ran my PS2 alongside my PS3 for as long as it was supported. I can't really warrant buying another PS3 now though. Hopefully a Souls game comes out for PS4 and I'd be pretty much set. Once the PS3 streaming is up and running I'll buy the games I've missed, but I don't have time to play half the games I want to as it is now. I'm good with just a PS4.

[Asura]

Once the PS3 streaming is up and running I'll buy the games I've missed,

I would say, however, that I'll never buy any games that are played via video streaming. For various reasons over the years I've tried all the technologies; OnLive, Gaikai's various incarnations, and none of them have yielded an acceptable result, even on very fast connections.

They always demo them at E3, and people go oooh and aaah, when they're running them on a LAN with a mini datacentre in the room nextdoor.

Too much lag, and that has zero to do with the speed of your connection. It's the "road metaphor" all over again; you can have a motorway with 5 lanes or 50 lanes, but that doesn't speed up the individual cars. Unless Gaikai build a datacentre literally within 50 miles of my house, I'll never place any stock in that technology whatsoever.

I could almost play Civ V when I tried OnLive. Almost. Even then, the tiny bit of lag whenever I clicked just drove me crazy.

[wakka]

I'll be buying PS3 games for as long as they release ones I want, even when I have a PS4. Games are games really

Plus, Persona 5 won't be out in English till next year. That could feasibly be the last PS3 game I buy though if not much is out after that.

[Sketcz]

I will never understand why someone abandons hardware they already own, with presumably a large back catalogue of excellent, perhaps unplayed games, for a new system which will still be teething for the next 12 months.

Of course I'm still going to buy for the last gen.

I've yet to play Metro: Last Light. Is it on PS4 or Xbone? No. Meaning the only way to experience it is on a last gen system.

I find the cognitive disconnect some gamers have very strange. If a game that interests you is only on specific hardware, if you own that hardware, surely you want to play it regardless of that hardware's successors? Otherwise the implication is that you're only playing a game because it exists on specific hardware which you deem worthy, rather than the merits of the game itself.

A multi-system release is different, since perhaps the newer version looks or functions better. But if it's only on the older platform, why deny yourself? I fail to understand this.

I like Jimmy Hendrix music. Sure, I'll listen to the remastered digital audio files on my computer, but that doesn't mean I am unable to enjoy it when played via magnetic tape, vinyl record, CD, or really good cover band.

It's the sound I like, not the medium.

(though I'll be honest, I do take an innate pleasure in using magnetic cassette tapes - they're so nostalgic)