Next-gen standard harmful?

[ninetailschris]

I was thinking earlier that with games having a high standard on current consoles will be even higher next gen?

You may wonder how can this be "harmful"? But looking at recent games that don't look like AAA usually flopping will it be even worst gen?

We will never get a game like xenoblade on consoles because everything must look up to day therefor costing the companies to make smaller games but more impressive looking? Of course I'm talking about smaller companies but are big companies not wanting risk there lively hood.

I mean we barely get games that look great (big games in size or something different)from Japan because it just cost to much to do it on current gen hardware. What chance do they have for next gen?

It's seems we also may fall into creative hold of sequels to sequels because with next there will be less people in the install base because of it not being in the market long. So, companies will be forced to give popular titles because selling 500,000 day one on a console with not even 1/3 of install base isn's going to be easy. I remember back in n64,ps2, and GC days we didn't have the worry so much if something flopped. 

It seems that the future isn't looking that great and mostly likey we will lose more developers and have less variety.

So, I guess the question really is fellow vg members would you rather have more great games that aren't graphicly impressive or less great games with impressive next-gen look?

(Note I bring up graphics a lot without mentioning reviewers who without a doubt go hard on games next gen for not looking like at least a AA game which will probably kill a lot of retail games that can't afford it.)