Pick up a copy of my sci-fi novel, The Last Exodus, and its sequel, The Exiled Earthborn, along with my Forbes book, Fanboy Wars. It’s great that a game like MGSV seems like it didn’t need to lose all that much in order to put out a last-gen version, but the same is not true of many other series, and I look forward to seeing what games like Call of Duty and Destiny can do when they don’t have any last-gen concerns at all.įollow me on Twitter, on Facebook, and on Tumblr. Yes, it’s unfortunate that everyone has to spend a few hundred on a new system if they want to keep pace, but that’s how the cycle works, and it’s time for the wheel to turn. The entire industry moving forward is a good thing for games and gamers. This was bound to happen eventually, but this data (which is often a lot more opaque) is the clearest look I’ve seen at the divide, and MGSV being the first major release of the fall, which marks the two year anniversary of the launch of both systems, is a pretty good metric for possible adoption of other titles. It seems that two years after launch, most gamers buying new games are leaving their old systems behind. And two years after launch, many series are still putting out Xbox 360 and PS3 versions of their games as a result.īut at least from these Metal Gear numbers, even with 160+ million consoles sold between them, the older systems only account for 5% of sales.

As a 30 retail disc and 20 download, however, it’s a concerning, unwelcome step for game developmentand it’s nothing close to a complete. Given the huge install bases of the PS3 and Xbox 360 worldwide (which have sold about 80 million units a piece), many publishers have bent over backward to make sure that those still using old systems can play new software. As a potential preview for what Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain might do to revolutionize the series’ classic stealth-action, Ground Zeroes is an intriguing, bite-sized playthrough.

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