This is completely tangential but I think there's a case to be made that 'retro' may be more useful to describe characteristics of a platform and it's games than it is to describe the age of the thing itself. So many advancements you wont notice unless youre looking for them. Im not sure how worth it they are anymore when every game coming put right now looks like it could run last gen if you just turned certain atmospheric effects down. In comparison the next decade only saw him release two console games and a PSP game.Īt a certain point it just takes too long to make these graphics.

Kojima was able to make 4 console Metal Gear games between 1998-2008. But now in that same time we got one Uncharted and one Last of Us.

Naughty Dog made the Uncharted trilogy AND Last of Us on one console. Like back in the day youd get a whole trilogy of games in a series per console gen and now one game can take an entire console gen to produce. It really just comes down to how quickly games are developed imo.

I mean those were the most advanced consoles for nearly a decade. And the PS3/360 years kinda abnormally long. But the PS4/Xbox1 gen was years longer than the NES, SNES, N64, and even Gamecube years. When the PS5 and XboSX were announced a lot of people dismissively said that console gens dont last long anymore.

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