Makes sense really. Project CARS also got cancelled for PS3/X360. I really don't want to see how games like Far Cry 4 will look on the older consoles.
I'd rather have developers fully focus on capitalizing on the new hardware anyway. We got how many years with the previous gen consoles? A lot more than most IIRC.
The 360 came out in 2005, and the PS4 and Xbox One came out in 2013, so about 8 years. They'll probably continue to support the 360 and PS3 for a while, still. I think it's fair to call those consoles last-gen now, since the new consoles have been around for about a year.
If X360/PS3 are still current-gen in 2014, then Dreamcast would technically be a 16-year-old last-gen console. DS and PSP are still getting a trickle of new officially published games and they're both 10 years old.
To my knowledge that's the longest we've had with a single console generation. I know the PS2 was alive for 13 years, but that whole generation wasn't. IMO we're lucky that the 360/PS3/Wii generation is still being supported.
Getting games released and being current gen aren't really the same. Just because EA updates the roster of the latest sports games (which kept the PS2 alive for an absurdly long time, it got a copy of FIFA 14) doesn't mean it's relevant. I suspect that games will keep being released for the 360/PS3 until maybe 2016-18, but by then it will be almost exclusively sports updates. I'm guessing that the devs of Dying Light started it on both gens because before the PS4 and XB1 launched nobody really knew how well they would sell, and if they started slowly (like the Wii U) then releasing a huge AAA game for just them would be financially bad. Since the PS4 has moved over 10 million units and the XB1 has sold over 5 million, it's not a terrible investment to move to just eighth gen, since it cuts down on developing two different versions of the game.
Exactly, the PS2 still had a handful of titles being released for it until 2013 - when FIFA 14 came out for it. PS3 and 360 are now "LAST GEN", the current generation is the newest one. It has always been this way. Get over it.
Yeah, don't get me wrong, this year and next year a lot of games will be on 360/PS3, since each system has sold over 80 million units worldwide (the PS4 is at 15 mil, and it's selling like crazy). Plus since the developers already can exploit the systems for all they're worth, it's a lot easier to program games that look good for them (which is the same with every system that gets a decent lifespan).
Dumb Square Enix announced new Tomb Raider for 360 in fall 2015 which could hinder current gen game. And 360 is already dead. I think we will see a lot of japanese niche games for PS3 for a long time. They still make games for PSP which production had already stopped.
It's not dead until there are no more games coming out for it. And even then, that's only commercially dead, as a system is still alive to someone even if no new games come out for it, as long as that person plays it. When I upgrade to current gen. (which won't be until it has games that I absolutely must have, which hopefully will be Batman: Arkham Knight, and Mirror's Edge 2) I'll still be keeping both my 360 and PS3, as they both have superb games on them that I'll want to replay again and again, plus both of those last gen. machines still have great games that I've yet to play.
I wouldn't call a console dead until its officially discontinued by the manufacturer. Even then games can still come out for it.
