Have we hit the technology wall?

[The_vagabond7]

So anybody with a 40 inch HD TV or larger will agree with you, rocketpig? How many people is that exactly? If the biggest contribution was the HD graphics then there is little point to the new generation. Luckily there is more to it than that.

Unfortunately The improvements are incremental, rather than huge (outside of playing it on a 40 inch HDTV). With the initial 3d generation that was a huge jump, but it was an akward and extremely limited jump. What was capable with those systems was something completely different from the previous generation, but highly limited in what it was doing. There simply wasn't enough power or technology to really flesh out ideas, but they made do and made some incredible stuff. It added something that wasn't in the previous generation.

Then the PS2 generation broke down those barriers, made incredible things possible. It refined what the previous generation did. That was great, much like the SNES refined what the NES did. But then rather than try to add something, the HD consoles just chose to refine it a bit further. That's great if you have a 40 inch HDTV and a nice bose theater sound system, but that is an extreme minority. For the rest of us it's just an extension of the previous generation, it takes what had been done and just does it a bit better.


I'm glad the wii is kicking ass an taking names, not because I'm against technology, but I'm for innovation. And if I have to choose between a console that's just pushing power and technology and one that is trying to create innovation I will back the newcomer. If the wii failed then the next generation would just be the exact same as the previous two, just a bit prettier with better physics. But now real progress can be made. It will be a bumpy ride to get there, and there will be alot of cheap knock off shovelware as developers try to figure out what to do with the new innovations in gaming, but it always is a bumpy transition when something different gets everyone's attention.