@mwewerka: While it is a tact to draw users to their site instead of others, it's also a user-friendly article as it provides multiple opinions to choose from. The only problem I have seen is when the person writing the roundup cherry picks other reviews that support gamespots opinion, rather than simply grabbing the same 5 or 6 sites every time.

@meatymisto: Yet somehow I managed to buy more than 12 games you can't play on PS4 or Switch. Take your fanboy shit elsewhere.

@batusai4ever: Most console generations previously had 5 to 6 year life cycles, the only reason that last gen was so long is because there weren't any significant breakthroughs in technology to push.

If you look at the major consoles(Nintendo, Sony, Sega, Microsoft) new iterations generally came out 4-6 years apart.

NES 85, SNES 90, n64 96, GC 2001, Wii 2006, Wii U 2012
PS1 1995, PS2 2000, PS3 2006, PS4 2013
Xbox 2001, X360 2005, X1 2013
Master System 85, Genesis 88, Saturn 94, Dreamcast 99

Of all those only the X360 and PS3 had life cycles over 6 years.

With the PS5 and Xbox Two in line to come out in 2020 that leaves this at a 7 year gen, inline with the previous gen and still longer than most generations prior.

A few of the ones I'm watching are Past Cure(out in the next week) and Light Fall(out next month).

@Barighm: The old THQ declared Red Faction dead, not the new one. Now that they own Volition it'd be a good time to give them back the IP and let them make a game that isn't purple.

Also, don't care what anyone says, I liked Armageddon.

@Barighm: Nordic is the company making all of these decisions. This is not the old THQ, that company is dead. Nordic bought the remaining assets from the THQ bankruptcy after every one else picked the bones clean.

Nordic changed their name to THQ Nordic a few years back to take advantage of the brand recognition. Not sure if anyone on their board is associated with the old THQ.

@Xristophoros: TBH I think MS should buy Crytek. With a little work they could make something out of Ryse, Crysis is still pretty good, and they could turn CryEngine into a real competitor to Unreal. And of course the addition of TimeSplitters would give them a fan favorite/classic.

But yeah, I'd rather see THQ buy just the TimeSplitters franchise and give it back to Dambuster.

They should buy Crytek next. Then Dambuster(formerly known as Free Radical) can give us what we really want... TimeSplitters 4!

@Mogan: Not really, it's been fairly consistently slanted in one direction the past 5 years that I have been actively posting on here. Sure, users like 7tizz are clearly favoring Xbox, but the site itself is consistently anything but Xbox. I would be embarrassed to put 'gamespot staff' on my resume.

@Mogan: Same could be said about the bias on this site.