Video games peaked with the Xbox 360 era and it's been downhill since

A reader is convinced that the Xbox 360 and PS3 era was the pinnacle for gaming and that publishers should’ve realised it at the time.

Was the Xbox 360 really pinnacle of gaming? Nostalgia is, as they say, a hell of a drug. It hits everyone eventually and seems to destroy all sense of perspective and reason. I am fully aware of this and that there’s probably nothing you can do about it. Knowing all that I have become fully convinced that the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 was the pinnacle of gaming and even though last gen was good I think it’s clear now that it was laying the foundation for the mess we find ourselves in now.

Many people will say last generation was great and in many ways it was, but that was when the bloat and the live service games started. It also saw the number of new IP being released drastically decrease, until you get to today where there’s virtually no new franchises being made. Just endless sequels, reboots, and remakes.

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