frybread on 03 February 2009
It's like film. There are the big, soulless, summer blockbusters, and then there are creative indie films.
If you're on a team with a $300,000 budget, you better have a fresh idea or you'll get lost in the crowd. If you've got a 7 or even 8 figure buget, you have a lot of nervous investors that are going to want a sure hit, which these days means guns, alien nazi zombies, and multiplayer.
To answer your question, no. What we've learned this gen is that people aren't interested in new graphics technology as much as they're interested in trying something new. And on each platform there are options for indie developers that had never existed. Castle Crashers, Fat Princess, World of Goo - low tech, low budget, huge fun.
