Well like i said im not a tech person and i dont claim to be but to me the best games on the PS2 such as GoW can rival the graphics of any GC or Xbox game. same goes for games like Uncharted

and i guess my theory is shot to s*** :(

PS2 was a pain to program for, at least according to a lot of developers. But with huge sales, you had to do it.

yes but it got easier over time so thats whats gonna happen to the PS3. in my eyes its inevitable 

It’s not a bad thought, just wrong. Don’t worry too much about it, most theory’s are! Some of it is accurate. If you want to see the full power of the system, looking at exclusives is the way to go. The only problem with that is even though exclusives sell consoles, they are not usually the best games. Some examples are CoD4, Oblivion, or any sports game. As for the development cycle, in a perfect world, you develop on the more powerful system, and work your way down. It’s easier to remove stuff then to add it back in later. The mulit’s for 360 vs PS3 however is different. The PS3 is such a departure from what most gaming developers are used to, that the learning curve is very difficult. Most of the ports you see from EA don’t even use the SPE’s in the PS3, so it’s like running it on a single core Power PC (old Mac for example).

As time goes on, what you will see is multi platform games being slightly better on the PS3, or the same. This is mostly true, as for some things, the 360 is actually faster. Most of what will get pulled out of the PS3 version of a game that the 360 does better you will never see however (like slightly better UI). In the end however, developers want to sell on both consoles, so they will find a common ground that both consoles will run well, and develop that game. Not making it the best it can on either. That’s why exclusives are a better choice to compare hardware.

Full power however, does not always mean the most fun. Ask any Wii owner.

The PS2 lacked technologies like S3 Texture Compression, On-GPU Transform & Lighting, On-GPU shaders (be them fixed or programmable), etc., that's why games on it looked worse than the others. So your theory is a bit flawed, because PS3 is good on both the technology and raw power department, it's just hard to program. It's different and can't be compared.

 i just meant that the excucive games on the PS2 still had some of the best graphics of that generation.

Not this time I bet...

increased casual buyers does not help the ps3's cause

casuals are gonna buy wii 30x more often than ps3

 ps3 is a hardcore machine designed for hardcore gamers and marketed to hardcore gamers

 yeh this time its all confusing, before u could just say XB SUCKS!!!!!!! or PS2 SUCKS!!!!!!!!!  or GC SUCKS!!!!!!!!!!! but now u have to explain urself or u get banned for VGChartz :(