CREDIT: INFAMOUS: SECOND SON
Infamous: Second Son is fun. But is it $400-for-a-new-console-with-not-much-else-to-play fun?

The excitement of the console launches has died down a bit. Sure people still love to parade around their new PS4s and Xbox Ones, but really, the enthusiasm is a bit deadened by the fact that, well, there's nothing to play. Right now we're at that awkward point we were at around six or seven years ago; that every major game release sees a port over two generations of game consoles. But even with that, there's something cool bound to come out for your favourite console camp, right?

Eeeeeehhh... well, fact of the matter is, you really could afford to wait a bit, no matter how much you love your favourite faceless corporation. Why?

The Xbox One
Besides some mildly interesting Kinect support, there isn't much going on with it besides Forza and Titanfall, which is available on the 360 and PCs anyway.

The PS4
Sure, Infamous Second Son and Killzone Shadowfall look pretty neat, but as big exclusives go, they're the only big exclusive releases seen so far. The PSN indie game market shows a lot of promise, but really, a lot of titles there can be bought on Steam without having to shell out big bucks for this black trapezoid.

The Wii-U
Unless you need a fix for first-party Nintendo games based on their character roster, there isn't much going on in the way of third-party game support. Even the bedeviled EA games have shown a complete lack of enthusiasm for the underpowered white box. Sure they may be evil, but they're a big game publisher, and when one drops out, others follow suit.

The horizons for the big three aren't exactly grim since it after all is pretty early in the race, but future prospects aren't particularly exciting either. Predictably, until developers fully get their heads wrapped around the hardware they're dealing with, it's going to be multi-generation multi-platform games from here on out.

What do you do to end your gaming fix? Well, simply look back. The PS3/360 generation lasted twice the span of the average four-year console generation life, and over those eight years there have been some seriously awesome games you've probably missed out on. And the best part? Both the consoles and the games are dirt-cheap.

You'll probably pick up both Infamous games for the PS3 at around $10. The 360 had, besides Halo, some cool and unusual franchises of its own (the Condemned games come to mind). By and large, these games have aged very well, probably owing to the depressing fact that games now ape each other a lot more than we'd like.

Scouring various gaming sites' top lists and the r/patient-gamers section of Reddit is a good start to find some awesome multiplatform and exclusive games of this now-past console generation. As for newer titles being stretched between console generations, I suppose it's a matter of asking yourself, “is shelling out $500 extra for the same game with shinier graphics really all that worth it?” Trust me, it really isn't. At a general price of $5 to $10 per second-hand game, it's a great holdout while you wait for something on the PS4 to REALLY blow our socks off.