Are we truly starting to get to the end of this generation?

As clearly mentioned in my last post I have been playing Deus Ex and wasn't really blown away by it at the end. Felt the controls didn't work and didn't feel smooth and had a very poor start as well as some glitches in the game. But when I completed it I sort of thought to myself for a couple of a seconds is this fall the last batch of games on the current gen, I answered yes in the moment and it still remains yes currently.

Don't get me wrong I'm not calling it the end just because of one game but something deep down in the back of my head sort of briefly asked me "What's coming out in 2012 that's worth keeping your 360 and PS3?"

Mass Effect 3, Far Cry 3...ummm...Max Payne???

Just nothing mind blowing to me but I'm sure the three I have mentioned will be very popular to everyone else. Just never been a massive Far Cry fan, loved May Payne 1 but 2 was average and it lacks the talent of Remedy which made May Payne brilliant. But I didn't mind Mass Effect 2 as it had a good re-playability value  in terms of story and DLC. But hated scanning planets and a fighting system which got boring very quickly. Halo 4 has also been announced but no details have been made available about the game just a teaser trailer.

Just can't see next year beating the likes of Uncharted 3, Forza 4 and Portal 2 which to me I was excited about right from the get go. It also feels right that we now move to the next generation of consoles which I'm sure will happen very soon with some kind of announcement from either Microsoft or Sony at next years E3.

All round it has been one of the weakest generations of gaming from my memory with some poor games coming out on both major consoles in the first 2 or 3 years with YLOD and RROD still a problem to this day. Also the fact both console have been hard to work with as in a recent article about Microsoft's strict and to some, unfair policies to third parties and PS3 being hard to make games for and having a hard developers kit to work with.

I'm hoping both seriously learn from this generation and learn from their mistakes and improve what makes them both great from the possibilities of Kinnect, to cross console gaming like we have seen work in Portal 2 with Steam and PS3 users.

I just see lots of possibilities for both. Not Wii-U though personally but hey, I was wrong about the Wii like everyone else on the planet :P