The Last GenerationA look back at 2013-2020, the age of the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One.I know they’ve sold a lot of units—big techy launch things always have and always will—but there was no avoiding the fact that this month’s next-gen console launches felt a little…muted.
Sure, you could blame some (or even more than some!) of that on a global pandemic and associated economic downturn, a little more on an underwhelming slate of launch titles and even spare a little for the distractions that came with a monumental US election.
But even placing those factors neatly to the side for a moment, things still felt off. For a while now video game consoles have been involved in a high stakes game of diminishing returns, each new generation of hardware slightly less ground-breaking than the last. In the 1990s we went from side-scrolling pixels to a…
