What lessons should the gaming industry learn from this generation?

I stole this thread idea from another forum I frequent.

What do you want to see in the next-generation of gaming. It's looming just over the horizon. We've already seen Nintendo 3DS. We've seen previews of Wii U and Sony Vita (PSP 2). We're also starting to hear rumblings on the internet of the next XBox and Playstation, and now I've even heard that rumors that Apple is considering a console next-gen due to gaming's success on the iPhone and iPod.

So what should the next-generation do right that this generation did wrong?

1. Focus less on flashy graphics, and more on gameplay and level-design.

2. Quit nickel-and-diming us on DLC.

3. Less sequels, more original games.

4. Quit punishing the consumer for buying used. No other entertainment industry (movies, CDs, books, comic books, etc.) are whining about it. And this crap Capcom is gonna pull with one save file per game is freaking stupid.

5. I know this is something that is probably inevitable, but this is all my opinion, right? Quit moving towards direct-to-drive/console games. I want my physical media. I can't trade or sell downloaded games that I ended up not enjoying.

Stop making shooters, for the love of god, ever other game does not need to be a variation of a shooter.

Drop the motion control BS.

And stop trying to shoehorn Multiplayer into everything.

Fun Fact: from the money's point of view, all of these are the definate way to go.

add value by lowering the price rather than raising it and adding in junk. collectors editions are completely the wrong idea. dont try to make consumers justify higher prices. publishers should be justifying lower prices with higher sales.

consoles didnt do this so wrong, but its a trend that should be continued: digital distribution. with development costs rising and limiting the types of games being made, DD lessens the restrictions. new ideas and different experiences are good for everyone. gamers get a broader range of choices, developers get to make the games they want, and publishers sell more games. i couldnt care less about app crap, but platforms for the limbo's of the world are good for gaming. next generation, id like to see lessened DRM, more chances for different developers, and more experiments with episodic and segmented content.

Fun Fact: from the money's point of view, all of these are the definate way to go.

CD-i_ownz

Put more effort into your single player campaigns, I'm getting sick of all those 4-5 hours campaigns.

Consoles shouldnt be more than 400 dollars.

You can have gimmicks, but dont RELY on them.

Stop DLC, for games like CoD that make its money back 10x DLC should be free to reward their fanbase.

What osan0 said.

Also majority of the consumers are casuals and iditos willing to pay for content that ships on disc...

consoles that transport casual gamers into another dimension forever, plus the end of screen tearing!!

I'm hopeful that the industry won't eventually go completely to motion-based gaming. To me, a regular, old-fashioned controller wins over motion control any day.

5) unless you are blizzard and have a game called world of warcraft....dont charge a monthly fee for your MMO. it will fail, the userbase will quickly die off and you will struggle. the f2p model has consistently proven to be more lucerative for MMOs not called WOW.osan0

No, most MMOs have monthly fees and there are many that have historically done quite well (Ultima, DAoC, EQ, EVE, Star Wars Galaxies, FFXI, etc). WoW just makes everything else look like a failure in comparison because of how absurdly huge it is. The big reason why most MMOs fail is that they don't have enough endgame content to keep people playing after they finish leveling. Or rather, they don't come out with new endgame content fast enough. There have been a lot of MMOs in the past few years that were off to a very good start but then nose-dived because there wasn't enough endgame content to hold people over until new content was patched in. WoW could actually have been killed by now had some developers not taken the mindset that endgame content wasn't important to have ready before or very shortly after launch.

Stop making games 10 hours perhaps lol//Work hard for my money..Its nuts that these devs toss in 10 hours of game=play and ask people for sixty bucks..Also how about more new ips stop being scared..Get creative again..Im tired of 1 2 3 4 already..Seams like you get a hit its got to have sequels..The days of the original ip is over..Now we are lucky if we get maybe 2 new ips a year..Not enough in my book,..

stop with the non stop sequels that are nothing but rehash

Seriosuly... its depressing. I hate playing a sequel that is basically the first game.

Whatever happend to evolution in games?

Thats just a huge turn off for me.... In fact i seem to strongly dislike a game after this happens...

might be unfair but i miss the old days where sequels actually made a indent in the series history. that really improved and changed.

As a kid my favorite memories were when playing a sequel that was really different but kept the same feeling in the game. It always kept me interested and playing.

And actually make original games.

Honestly i cant tell the difference between many games these days...

Just feel like its all going downhill...

sorry... Had to let that all out... Was just boiling inside me.... like a boily bowl of soup at the top off a volcano that is way to hot to eat because its just to boily

The only takeaway should be that releasing systems at a price point higher than $300 is a horrible idea.

That two things are fundamentally and thoroughly lame:

1.$599 US DOLLARS

2. Busted-ass plots involving nanomachines.

Multiplayer is the only thing I can really think of. It doesn't need to feature in every game.

Look at Braid, use every single lesson learned by that game.

Nintendo should learn not to neglect third-party support!!!

The industry in general has to learn to be more original,and more DARING.

Why not make sexual games?

And unique ones?