Of course, much of this depends on the price of next-gen games and whether the system is backwards compatible.
Though touting the ability to run current-gen games like Mass Effect 3 and Arkham City is well and good, will they be able to do the same with the sequels to those titles in a year or two?
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With Nintendo struggling to juggle Wii games on the Wii U and Sony's Playstation 4 abandoning current gen PSN games, it looks like backwards compatibility is a thing of the past.
The only people really excited about the Xbox One are people who want to play next-gen video games.
Meanwhile, in console-land we have three current-gen systems with a huge catalog of really good games, the upcoming Wii U, and the next-gen offerings by Sony and Microsoft coming next year.
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The Gen Y bartender had the X Games playing in high def on the flat screen behind the bar.
Their Next Gen report on boosting skills for the games industry - described as "superb" by Michael Gove - made very few headlines when it was published last February.
Nothing has been decided as to whether games will universally require 2nd-gen Zunes, though.
Nintendo has announced, alongside the many other games coming to its next-gen Wii U system, that it will be bringing Bayonetta 2 to the console as a Nintendo exclusive.
Slashdot caught up with Engineering Librarian and Video Game Archivist Dave Carter and took a look inside the repository, which has curated around 35 classic and current-gen platforms and more than 3, 000 different games.
Racing games have been an integral part of any next gen launch.
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Epic Games isn't just offering up its ubiquitous current-gen game creation tool Unreal Engine 3 to Oculus Rift developers, but also its next-gen tool, Unreal Engine 4.
The last games of the current generation will probably be some of the best third-party games the WiiU ever gets, as developers move forward and focus on the truly next-gen consoles.
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