I like to cling onto my consoles for dear life (as shown by my recent PS3 buying guide). I’m a little wary of anything new, I like what I know, and I’m incredibly tight-fisted when it comes to shelling out for new tech; this all means I’d much rather spend my hard-earned cash on games for the consoles I already have, rather than saving up for a new one – *ahem* Switch *ahem*.
Often, consoles become targets in their dotage for shovelware, movie tie-ins and pure kids’ games, but you can find a handful of unsung heroes and surprising classics at the tail-end of console life cycles, if you dig into gaming history. And yes, this period in the life of a console contains a lot of JRPGs, but it is by no means dominated by the genre. There are even a few titles that you might not have known originally came out on a completely different, dying-out console, or were successfully ported to that console. So, let’s check out a few critically acclaimed games that came out on a console that was heading into retirement.
I have not included games that also came out on the console’s successor, so no Persona 5 or Breath of the Wild. Sorry!
Source: Destructoid Here are some of the best video games released at the end of a console’s life cycle