Yeah, if he means the $20-30 mill budgets of today will become $60 million budgets in next gen, some of the $60 million budget games in this gen should become +$120 million budget games in next gen. Wow.

300 guys on average for 4 years working on games like The Elder Scrolls 6 and Zelda Wii-HD.

or

500 guys working for 3-4 years on Call of Duty 7 and GTA5 on $150-200 million budgets (equal to the highest budget Hollywood action movies).

Creating games that support both classic controllers combined with motion controls and true 3-D vision technology.

Epic. I can't wait.

Diminishing returns, as far as I'm concerned. That single ultra-high quality game budget could have financed four completely different high quality experiences. I'd rather have the choice, variety, and creativity of several smaller projects than a single, huge, derivative effort that can't afford to take creative risks because it's too enormous a financial risk.

A difference in values, I guess. I'll vote with my dollar and you vote with yours.

Hopefully next-gen will kick shovelware into oblivion. We already have Live Arcade/PSN/WiiWare for the lesser developers.

This is exactly why the current generation needs to last tell at least 2014, and the PS3 and 360 need to be on the market tell 2020. Generations need to start lasting just as long as a movie format. We are moving to a mass market, and this BS of moving from one console to another every 4 - 6 years is going to kill the industry. Each generation needs pleanty of time to mature, and take advantage of the consoles and engines. Additionaly, console manufactures need to give a clear path for the future so that 3rd parties don't get caught with their pants down again.