The next generation is here to awe us with intense gameplay, sound quality that blows the audience away, and graphics with details so specific it makes us feel like we're in the game. However, this generation seems to me and many others like it's progressing to meet those measures slowly. Slowly but surely.

My concern is the Nintendo Wii. The gameplay is very much different from our past experiences with video games, but sound quality and graphics seem almost weak. Hopefully this is because of what I call the "slow climb up of the generation," but I wonder if the Nintendo Wii's hardware can live up to the standards of the next generation of gaming 2007. It will hopefully be worth the wait and cross of fingers.