my reasons:
1) 80% of games this gen are generic shooters
2) Colors in games tend to be limited to brown
3) Fanboys worship their consoles
4) People now label themselves casual and hardcore
5) Not enough Local multiplayer games

1) Bias gaming media
2) Bias gaming media
3) Bias gaming media
4) Bias gaming media
5) Bobby Kotick

"The worst offenders are the SEGA fanboys; gone are the days of SEGA consoles and great, unique games from the publisher, yet fanboys across the globe cling to rumors of a Dreamcast 2 and play Shenmue over and over again."

It's all about teh graphics these days

My 5 reasons

1. The obsession with graphics, and not gameplay
2. Fanboys that ignore the facts
3. Casual/Hardcore elitism (and do not call yourself hardcore gamers people, you make yourself sound like a smelly fat guy living in your mothers basement everytime you do)
4. FPS is watered down, they were fun and there are a lot of good and fun ones, but theres too many of them and a small amount of them bring anything in new.
5. Consoles Break easy, I remember when I got my first gameboy I dropped it all the time as a clumsy kid and it still worked, now you break things by touching them wrong (I blame china for their cheap labor)

I miss the days of the PS2, which is where I played most games I have, the xbox was prettymuch non-existant besides halo and fable, the gamecube was a solid platform besides their use of mini-dvds but the games were still great, and the PS2 will forever be king. I'd probably be one who thought the 16bit era was best but PS2 is where the nostalgia is for me and why I'm so attached to it.

Bad cosplay..........lul. xD

5. There's always something like this. In the 90's it was all about Street Fighter and Mario 64 rip-offs, right?
4. Are there still that many people clinging to dreamcast and such? Sega's making good third-party stuff, especially on Wii. Hell, there have been good reviews of Sonic Racing. (i'll get it they release DLC of Madworld and Valkyria Chronicles characters) They deserve fans. "Gone of the days are the consoles" but their games still kick ass. (ignoring Sonic)
3. Nintendo is as reliable as ever, PS3 is nowhere near as bad as 360 at this. This maybe could have made a "Why 360 blows" list, but not this whole gen.
2. Graphics obsession has always been a problem. The bigger problem is when text is hard to read in SD. You're allowed to be idiots and buy a game just because it looks good in HD. I'll be playing Braid and No More Heroes 2, mkay?
1. This is a problem because...?

5. if you cant find great games in other genres then thats your fault.
4.fanboys been around forever. the internet just gives everyone a voice.
3.NES not reading games. PS1 had issues early. the PS2 had problems with dust. Xbox had a few problems as well.
2.people want a reason to purchase the new system. if all SNES looked like NES games people would be mad. if games dont take advantage of the power of new system then its fair to bring it up. graphics doest make or break a game, but they can really enhance the experience.
1.?????????????

I won't give 5 because I honestly agree with the first one. I love a good FPS but this gen has seen its fair share of junk FPS (Legendary, Haze etc)

4. There have always been and always will be fanboys. Get over it. Besides that, fanboys have nothing to do with status of gaming today.

3. Console failure rates - True they need to get better, but this dudes pretends that blowing in the NES cartridges, or turning the PS1 over never happened. It did. I had two busted PS2 and 2 busted Xbox's last gen. So again this is nothing new.

2. HD is awesome and I can't understand why anyone would want to play standard def games on a HD capable console. Last gen had to die at some point. Oh yeah and Braid is in HD.

1. THE AUTHOR SUCKS, He never goes into any details. This article was a waste of time and made worse by the fact that I wasted like 3 mins writing this.

BOO THIS MAN!

that 13 year olds playing shooters (M rated games in particular) sucks. I don't give a crap about kids having their precious minds ruined by playing games they shouldn't (probably not until I have kids), but what a world it would be if little kids were only playing their little kiddie games and screaming in their high-pitched voices while playing those, and leaving the shooters and M rated games to us. Ah, to dream.

-Way more Pirating
-No direct sequels to great games like Castlevania:SOTN or Shenmue
-Crappy direct sequels to great games (Resident Evil 5 or SH 5)
-Lack of good story in most games like in 90% of them all
-Really horrible games that look incredibly good, so they are given the blind eye.
-Motion Controls in place of controls better suited for conventional ones.
-Grandma's who play Wii sports are considered to be a selling point for the system.
-FPS syndrome
-Over the shoulder view and chest high walls
-Little or no backwards compatibility with last Gen's games.

but i look at it like this...

The PS3 is going to continue for at least another 4 more years. Its only been out for 3 years and so far i've had games like, the Uncharted series, GOW3, MGS4, Flower, R&C: ACIT. Not to mention the other quality multi-platform games.

I've still got the Last Guardian, GT5 and many others to look forward to.

Saying "This generation blows" when its no where near done yet is being harsh.

After this gen finishes people will look back and realise the quality of games was amazing from the DS, Wii, 360 and PS3.

I always enjoy my Sony and Nintendo consoles. This gen is no different. :)

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!

There are hardly any original or outstanding games. Since its all 3d sandbox games on pc hardware they all look the same and feel the same. This generation is all about marketing hype and pseudo movie stories. Nothx, you can keep that sh}t.

I wouldn't go as far as saying that this gen blows but, there are things that have watered it down:
1) Money Hungry business executives
2) Ignorant fanboys who can't at least acknowledge a game on a system they don't have
3) Biased media(they are out there)
4) Too many shooters and playing it safe and not taking risk
5) Casual and hardcore? Why are they different? Because of the Wii and Farm-ville?
6) People turned this into something stupid, like American vs Japanese consoles

just when i was about to give up on gaming, a game would come along and id be back being a gamer again,

it boils down to developers not delivering the goods,

ill take the mighty gt5 for emample, no motorbikes, no mario style carts, no fun crash and burn side games, f++k theres not even proper damage, and this is the "best" what developers can do,

id like to give praise to lbp to opening up the world of options, and showing the industry how predictable its become

i have been gaming for 25 years, 90s gaming i would agree is truly the golden years of gaming. this gen, man this gen! gaming and it's fanboys are the worst i have seen in all my gaming years!!!!!!!!! hands down. i never seen so much brain dead puppet fanboys this gen. what kill's me about this gen is the xbox360 fanboys!!!!!!!!!!!! to me not every one of them, but the one that is blind and far beyond stupid are the worst fanboys i have seen in my 25 years of gaming. i had many encounters with fanboys in my years, but this gen fanboys are so mentally lost and blind. 360 fanboys are the biggest haters i ever seen. they will kill their own mamas to prove their console is the best! they will never admit their console is broken as a hardware.
but quick to point the flaws of other console! these fanboys make it living to brag about sales numbers. 90s gamers could not give a damn about sales, only game graphics and game sequels!!!!!!!!! that it. gamers to day argue about anything thing and everything to prove some kind of point. not to say ps3 fanboys do it too, i see this alot more coming from the 360 fanboys. i hear them go crazy each time i go in a gamestop store. 360fanboy will say " well the 360 have more games" me who's been paying for years say well how many of those games are quality? and don't game libraries grows for example playstation1 vs n64, n64 had more games then the ps1, that did not stop the ps1 because game libraries do grow people. he continues to say well the 360 sold more then the ps3! i say well how many of those 360 are rebuys considering the 360 fail rate hhhhhhhmmmmmmmmm. he has nothing to say. boy, i tell you arguing facts and logic with these extreme fanboys is a wast of time. Ms have brain wash them to complete puppet zombies. most of the time i just lough at these fools.
From a hardware standpoint,today's gaming machines will not last to long. not like the snes and the sega genesis did. My sega master system i bought 1987 still works perfectly till this day (22 years people i had it for). these system you hear today an update can break them damn!

i have all 3 current gen consoles.i look at myself as a fanboy of great games period. people need to stop hating and play the games! no i don't plays sales and play games. later from a gaming vet

I agree the fanboyisms suck thats why i'm slowly drawing away from this site I've slowly been going to Kotaku etc

um because almost all of the games are inferior to stuff that came out 10 years ago?

"After this gen finishes people will look back and realise the quality of games was amazing from the DS, Wii, 360 and PS3."

..no they wont most of those games are pretty bad, and have been done before too many times.

BINGO.

Don't blame executives. They saw where they could make money; Saw that people were buying games and what sold; and then made games that sold lots.

This market is driven by Demand not Supply. Just look at the numbers for MW2 or some other big FPS. Who would not see that and be...wow....lets make some money.

IMO, the problem is that making games have become VERY expensive. To get a beautiful polished game you have to spend more money than a small creative developer usually has. Its only the developers with the GIANT publishers that can front that kind of money. Imagine this senario.

Studio walks into Producers office.

Studio: "Hey Producer, umm I'm thinking about making a game that infuses 3D platforming and RPG elements. Its going to be pretty creative because in the world, there will actually be Puzzles and be fairly difficult. Im not sure we will have any multiplayer, but the story is going to be great. We found a great screenplay writer who is interested in the project."

Producer: Wait so, this hasn't been done before?

Studio: No, but we are thinking this is going to really work well. Lots of "hardcore" gamers will like like.

Producer: Ummmm. How many copies is it projected to sell?

Studio: Probably about 500,000 to 750,000.

Producer: Will it be expensive to produce?

Studio: Yes, with our great writer, top notch graphics and smooth gameplay it will be very expensive.

Producer: Hey Studio, why don't you just make another FPS, do a half ass job with no creativity, slap on Deathmatch, flame some fanboys and go sell 2 million copies for half the price?

Studio: Well, its not very creative.

Producer: <Slams a stack of bills on the desk>

Studio: See you in a few months with a generic FPS.

The problem is with 14 year olds buying up MW2 and every other half baked FPS or over hyped game and not demanding quality.

Theirs TOO MANY FANBOYS THAT'S THE PROBLEM WITH OUR GENERATION. back then we never have that many problems with stupid fanboys.