Hello everyone, this is my first blog post, also English it's not my native language, please sorry for any mistakes that may occur on the text.
Anyway, looks like we will have a great year for games, so many titles are planned to be released in 2016 for all the platforms.
Big multiplaform franchises are coming, games like Mass Effect: Andromeda, Yooka-Laylee, Dark Souls 3, The Division, Doom, Far Cry Primal, Deus Ex: Mankind Divided, and the list goes on.
Probably a new Call of Duty and Assassin's Creed as well, that's for sure, ha! Maybe finally we will be allowed to play Final Fantasy XV.
This blog post will focus more on exclusives for consoles, that's the main reason why we want to play on more than one platform, and i think that Sony, Nintendo and Microsoft are bringing great reasons for gamers to invest on consoles made by them.
Let's start with Sony.
Looks like 2016 will be the best year for PS4, so far, so many exclusive games are expected to be released for the platform. But let's start talking about the PSVR, many gamers are expecting a new way to enjoy games, and all the VR devices are being praised by the industry. We can expect interesting games exclusive for PSVR, titles like Rigs and Robinson.
Some games will be also compatible for VR, games like the new Tekken, Ace Combat and probably No Man's Sky.
But i'm really excited for games like: The Last Guardian, Horizon: Zero Dawn, Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End, Persona 5, Ratchet & Clank, Alienation, Dreams, The Tomorrow Children, Nier: Automata, Gran Turismo, What Remains of Edith Finch.
Sony will release your big guns this year, a new Uncharted and Gran Turismo, i wonder how many more devices they will sell this year.
PS4 gamers will have a busy year.
Nintendo
Wii U it's not the favorite console this generation based on the sale numbers, but i'm having a great time with the device and i'm sure that Nintendo gamers are satisfied with the exclusives released for the platform. Amiibos are cool to collect as well.
It's a great investiment for the exclusives alone, games like: Super Mario 3D World, Mario Kart 8, Super Smash Bros, Captain Toad, Bayonetta 2, Splatoon, Xenoblade, Yoshi's Wooly World. Some people agree that Wii U has the best exclusives right now.
But what about this year?
We are expecting for more details of NX, probably Nintendo will have a busy E3. I'm wondering if NX will be released this year too, who knows?
But let's not forget about Wii U yet, two major games are coming for the platform, a brand new Zelda and Star Fox, two franchises that many gamers are willing to play a new game.
Microsoft
Xbox One will have a lot of exclusives this year as well, i like how Phil Spencer is trying to bring diversity for the platform, maybe finally we will have the classic Rare back, because Killer Instinct is back, also Rare Replay.
Franchises like Gears of War and Crackdown are coming back this year, also new games like Scalebound, Quantum Break, Recore, Cuphead, Sea of Thieves. Xbox One users could help me on the comments and list more games that are coming, but i think you get the main idea, many games are coming for XOne.
I probably forgot some games or features for the three consoles, but the main point of this post is that consoles are alive and doing great.
What else are you looking for in 2016?
Microsoft announced its financial results for Q3 of fiscal year 2026, including an update on its gaming Xbox business and more.
Not looking good. Hopefully Asha Sharma is able to turn Phil’s disaster around.
To me it's still quite remarkable how they can cash-in 5.3bn in revenue in a single quarter, since their hardware is basically dead.
The stock mark is what makes Microsoft remarkable, They have convinced every institutional and retail investor to just keep piling money into them. Like many big tech giants they are just a big growing pyramid scheme. As long as people keep dropping money into ETF's that cover the market Microsoft will always be liquid. At the same time it is completely stifling innovation and competition. People need to start being more discreet in how they invest their money as it's killing the system.
Riiiiight because people will just flock back to them for one or two games per year.
15+ years of bad performance is what they call irreparable in business. It is time for them to sell off the assets and get out of entertainment.
These declines are on the back of extra revenue received from releasing games like Forza horizon 5 on PlayStation. So I’m being sarcastic here when I said they should go back to exclusives. Killing off a revenue stream from Ps5 sales will only make things worse
The charity event will be streamed live from Gamescom in August.
Thanks to the slip-up of an artist working on the title, we now have more evidence that a new Injustice game is in the works.
NX reveal, great exclusives from both Playstation and Xbox and a good year for third party and I'm sure there's still a lot of unrevealed games too, shaping up to be a good year
Yea the author forgot a lot of games. I'm not sure what the point of this post is except for saying it's going to be a great year for gamers on all consoles. Happy new year everyone.
2016 is the year the JRPG genre returns to consoles. If is a Square Enix JRPG it most likely come to pc 😸. It will also be a great year for the PS4, due to is bringing some interesting exclusives like Dreams, Let it Die, something Fitch, etc. It will also be a great year for PC gamers. PC gaming is getting some awesome exclusives like:
Rollercoaster Tycoon World
Planet Coaster
Tides of Numera
Consortium 2
P.A.M.E.L.A
Allison Road
Ashes of Singularity
Overall a great year for gamers
Again you are wrong. JRPGs always come out but they aren't as big as FF. Hardly any JRPG series are as big as FF. I think your nostalgia is clouding your mind.
What I would give for a Bloodborne 2... I haven't beaten a game 5+ times in a row since... jesus, Diablo 2?