I'm glad you're excited, I really am. But you've brought all of this up before and, from most of the responses on this thread, it's only gotten a collective shrug. It's nice for most people, sure, but talking about performance and resolutions and such on new consoles doesn't do much for the Giantbomb crowd, as you can see from this thread, so if you're looking to discuss performance for your dollar in the new consoles, you'll have to go elsewhere. That's not this place.
When the Xbox and PS2 came out, 3D games finally looked reasonably good and played fairly well. You could play games like Jak and Daxter, Halo, and Final Fantasy X on them, and both consoles could play DVDs as well - that's exciting. When the Dreamcast came out, it looked amazing and everything ran so smoothly and it could even do online play - that's exciting. When the 360 came out, it bumped everything up to HD resolutions, could potentially play games in 1080p, and looked goddamn incredible in comparison, plus it promised to greatly expand online play and introduced us to games way bigger and more complex than anything we'd seen before - that's exciting. Sure, we're getting a resolution and performance bump, but the features we're looking at and the games we're seeing are literally all things we've played before, just looking slightly better. That's decidedly not very exciting.
For the record, people do like shiny new things, that's why we're seeing so many console pre-orders, that's why the 3080 is sold out and will be for a long time. But just because people like to buy new things doesn't mean there's all that much for an enthusiast to discuss. It just means there's something nice and shiny out for you to go buy if you're so inclined.
I'd argue that super insane SSDs that will lead to low/zero load times and fluid texture/geometry loading is going to be pretty cool for games.
Maybe GB isn't excited because finally the consoles are basically more like good range PC's. Up until the 3000 series it was looking like the new consoles were going to be almost high-end PC level from a GPU standpoint.
I also understand when people in this thread say GB doesn't have to be excited and we shouldn't validate our opinions by their excitement but you know what, it's really fun to have a gaming site be excited and hyped. Many of us liked the hype and bullshit of E3 - it was an exciting time and a new console generation should be like that. If it's not to GB, maybe they need to think about why they aren't (And maybe why they are doing the site at all) and then articulate it with some interesting discussion. Personally I think this upcoming gen is feeling really exciting.
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