Rumor: Entire Xbox E3 2019 Press Conference "leaks" - Sensationalist Headlines

A Fable reboot? I'm curious if anything.

The generation is actually the longest on record and counting. When taking into account only western release dates (i.e. not the Famicom in 1983, or PC Engine (TG16) in 1987), using Wikipedia's statistics. When NA and Europe differ, Europe is on the right, done in NA release date order per generation, not including handhelds: Third Generation: 1985. Years spent before the fourth generation: 4 Nintendo Entertainment System: 1985 Sega Master System: 1986/1987 Atari 7800: 1987 Fourth Generation: 1989. Years spent before the fifth generation: 4* (6 for most people) Hudson TurboGrafx-16: 1989/1990 Sega Genesis/Mega Drive: 1989/1990 Hudson TurboGrafx-CD: 1989 SNK Neo Geo: 1991 Super Nintendo Entertainment System: 1991/1992 Philips CD-i: 1991 (fun tidbit, it only released four months after the SNES in the US, which shows how early a CD drive for the SNES was planned) Sega CD: 1991/1992 Neo Geo CD: 1996/1994 Fifth Generation: 1993. Years spent before the sixth generation: 6* (4 for most people) 3DO Interactive Player: 1993 Atari Jaguar: 1993 Sega 32X: 1994 Sega Saturn: 1995 Sony PlayStation: 1995 Atari Jaguar CD: 1995 Nintendo 64: 1996 Sixth Generation: 1999. Years spent before the seventh generation: 6 Sega Dreamcast: 1999 Sony PlayStation 2: 2000 Nintendo GameCube: 2001 Microsoft Xbox: 2001/2002 Seventh Generation: 2005. Years before the eighth generation: 7 Microsoft Xbox 360: 2005 Sony PlayStation 3: 2006/2007 Nintendo Wii: 2006 Eighth Generation: 2012. Years ago from now: 8 (7 even when ignoring the Wii U, but still will become 8 if a console comes out next year instead of this one) Nintendo Wii U: 2012 Ouya Ouya: 2013 Sony PlayStation 4: 2013 Microsoft Xbox One: 2013 Amazon Fire TV: 2014 Nvidia Shield: 2015 Valve Steam Machine: 2015 Sony PlayStation 4 Pro: 2016 Nintendo Switch: 2017 Microsoft Xbox One X: 2017 Part of the perception that the generation went by so fast is because the Switch, PS4 Pro and XBone X all came out within the last 3 years within quick succession of each other, giving the illusion of a 9th generation when the Switch is the only truly new console among them. However, it's still the most drawn out generation of consoles that we've had in the industry before a new generation. The amount of multi-plats coming to PC also had a factor in this perception of it being abbreviated or skippable, as the eighth generation was relatively mediocre for console exclusives and more and more of those console exclusives, particularly from Microsoft, keep inching onto PC. Likewise, the 3DS is now over 8 years old. With plans for more titles next year, the 3DS will almost certainly surpass the Game Boy as the handheld with the longest active lifespan without a true successor, as the Game Boy was on the market from 1989-to-1998 before the Game Boy Color came out in the second-half of 1998. On the flipside, the Game Boy Color and Game Boy Advance only experienced 3 years each before being replaced.

Well the Switch is pretty much the successor to the 3DS. Yeah they said that it isn't meant to replace the 3DS but they said that about the DS replacing the Gameboy line. There's not much point in third parties making 3DS games when they can put them on the Switch instead.

Looks to be fake. A new MechAssault isn't being worked on, at least not by the original company that made it.

Aside from more Halo Infinite news, this is the thing that I would be most excited about looking over the list. I don't really know how it could happen because I thought the PGI had exclusive rights to this stuff, but then again I'm pretty sure Microsoft owns all the old FASA copyrights so maybe they could pull it off. I'm just really excited by the idea of a new mech game in that Battletech universe made by somebody other than PGI. I'm super thankful that not only we got Battletech last year, but it was actually good. I really want it to be a sign that there's more Battletech franchise games coming.

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Fuck yeah please AoE 4: WOLOLO

Huh. So I guess the answer is that I am getting older and time just seems like its going faster. Less time for video games too. I dont know what to feel about this...

I mean it's possible that might still be a part of it but I really think it's as chipsnapper said. The Triple A Games industry is a shell of its former self, shoving loads of micro-transactions, dlc and lootboxes into every single parts of games, bloating them and making them more forgettable considering they just keep blending together. There's still a few that poke through the mold like Wolfenstein: TNO, Alien: Isolation, DOOM, MGSV, Breath of the Wild, etc, but there's just been a lack of really strong titles from all around. Couple that with the fact the last generation sort of bled into this one, as well as what Stormbuster mentioned... and yeah. You've got this gen feeling almost nonexistant.

Gen8 was since 2011, since handhelds count too. 3DS/Vita/Wii U/PS4/Xbone. Gen9 will be Switch/PS5/Xb4.

Handhelds don't have the same generational structure as home consoles. The Game Boy released in 1989 and didn't have a real successor until the Game Boy Color in 1998, the Game Boy Pocket was released in 1996 but that was just a hardware revision of the original. After the Atari Lynx and the Sega Game Gear stopped selling it was only really the Game Boy until the WonderSwan and the NeoGeo Pocket came out, but it took them both a year to get a colour version out when Nintendo was releasing the Gameboy Color the same year as the two black and white handhelds. After that it was the Game Boy Advance in 2001, the DS and PSP in 2004-2005, the 3DS came out in 2011 and there have only been hardware revisions since, and the Vita came out at the very end of 2011 (in Japan) or the start of 2012 (everywhere else) before Sony forgot what it was. While some handheld generations have been concurrent with home console generations this was mostly coincidence, and the handhelds have never really paired with their console counterparts. The Gamecube had an adapter to play Gameboy games, the PS3 was kind of designed to be compatible with the PSP, and later patched to have minimal Vita support, and the PS4 has the gimmick of being able to stream to the Vita (very poorly). Also I would not at all call the Switch a Gen 9 platform. Nintendo jumped the gun on the Wii U and made an embarrassment of themselves with it, they clearly were looking for another Wii gimmick and it bit them in the ass so they had to move on to the next project ASAP. The Wii U isn't a terrible console, but it's clear that if they had spent more time on it rather than booting it out the door in 2012 in an effort to beat Sony and Microsoft to market they would have fixed the console's obvious lack of direction. It probably would have ended up closer to what the Switch is now.

It's been rumored for a long time that when Playground Games (Forza Horizon Devs) expanded with a second studio it was to make a new Fable game. I've loved the series as a whole, and with it being all new hires I'm interested to see how it turns out since it won't just be racing game vets making an action/rpg.