i just heard this some where and was thinking on this point..What i see is that it really is advancing very fast,i remmeber when play station 1 came out and they called it next-gen!!just around 5-6 years back we had these shi*y looking first person shooters and now just after 5 years we have these very good looking games like crysis,UT2007,FEAR and many more!other than that the next-gen consoles offer you alot more then just gaming......and so on.I dont know where we are heading but i think that in 2015/2017 we will be having games like real-life or maybe better looking than real-life!that is just amazing.