Next Gen Advent Calendar III: Five Years to Go

[Junko]

Microsoft’s “ roadmap “ was revealed during the activation acquirement hearings so no real surprises there

[wakka]

I'm of the view that the whole notion of gaming generations is an increasingly irrelevant one.

We're arguably still in the same generation we have been since the launch of PS4 and XBO, and the eventual PS6 and XSX2 will represent a further continuation of that same gen.

That's not to say the way games are designed and played won't change in the future - it totally will over the coming years and decades - but I personally think for the foreseeable those changes will be driven by developers, rather than hardware manufacturers.

[Neon Ignition]

One thing I need to learn, one day, is to ease off the Day One train. Every time I get eventually sucked in to getting one because of the fuss and fanfare and there really is no point