Three Reasons You Should Wait To Buy a Next-gen Console
Reason 2 - Games
A video game console that doesn't have any fun games you want to play is obviously useless to gamers so the library of games available for each console is very important. At the time of this writing, neither next-gen console has very many exclusive games to draw you in.
Xbox One only has three exclusive games with Metacritic scores over 75: Dead Rising 3, Peggle 2, and Forza Motorsport 5. Ryse: Son of Rome (MetaScore: 60) and Killer Instinct (MetaScore: 73) may also be worth mentioning.
The list of noteworthy PS4 exclusives is even less impressive. There is currently just one exclusive with a Metacritic score over 75; Resogun. If you count “console” exclusives, that number jumps to three with Don't Starve: Console Edition and War Thunder. The most high profile PS4 exclusive game available right now would probably be Killzone: Shadow Fall. It wasn't very well received by critics, however, and has a 73 aggregate review score on Metacritic.In other words, you are only getting access to around two or three genuinely good exclusive games depending on which next-gen console you buy. Is that really worth dropping between $400 and $500 for?
Most of the upcoming blockbuster titles such as Destiny, Titanfall, Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes, and Watch Dogs will also be available on Xbox 360 and/or PlayStation 3. You don't need an Xbox One or PlayStation 4 to play the best games scheduled to be released in the next year so why not just wait that six to 18 months to let the price fall first? It might be better to wait until there are more interesting next-gen exclusives available.
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It's good to see some people with some reasoning here (except one guest). Running out to by the next-gen at launch is a fool's errand...I'm in no rush.
My only fear is that as publishers will rush and try to force obsolescence of 360 and PS3 by not making anything for it while they pump out next gen titles. Call me out of it, but that doesn't seem to have been the case last time, or even the time before that. PS1 slowly went away, PS2 hung around most of PS3's life. Xbox had a good couple of years it shared with 360.
yeah, i'm waiting. and i don't mean to sound like one of those annoying anti-console people, but pc's are way better than consoles, especially with my gtx titan. hell even when i just had one gtx 760 it was way better. if i can get a game that a lot of my friends aren't getting and it is available for pc, i get it for pc. my consoles are used more for gaming with my friends, not hardcore gaming. graphics wise, cpu wise, storage wise, basically yeah, pc dominates, its why people should invest in a pc rather than these overpriced consoles.
I jumped from PS2 to PS3 rather quickly because there was backwards compatibility (at least for the first iteration or so) and because of definite enhancements to graphics (HD), storage (internal hard drive), media (PS3 doubles as a Bluray player), and other features that were clearly a generation above (same going from PS1 to PS2). The jump between PS3 and PS4 is not so great though I am jealous of the CPU and GPU combination and supposedly improved interface.
This is the first generation of consoles since 1990 that I have no interest in buying.
I just bought a PS3 (a month ago). $250, 250 GB, and it came with The Last of Us. Plus, I got a few great games for less than $15-$20 each.
Wait even longer; smart people. Next-gen is a joke ATM. Let them drop the prices, work out bugs, release cooler-running CPU/GPU's, and let developers actually make games that push the new processors.
Plus, if you like RPGs, the wait for next-gen RPGs is a long one... Nothing really until the last quarter of 2014. I enjoyed an X-box, a PS2, and a PC for a long time while waiting. There are plenty of games; so unless you are really hardcore (read: rich, and have spent 1000's of dollars as well as 1000's of hours playing in the past several years) into video gaming; there's no rush.
I bought Wii U, PS4 and the Xbox One...WORTH IT!