I have wondered this for a while now.... I've been questioning the status of gaming, and the "improvements" foregoing to making gaming "better."

Do you truly believe gaming will be better with more technology? I have questioned, does more specs, power, physics, data storage, and so on equate to better and more fruitful experiences in gaming?

Now, here's what I'm saying. It seems so on, we get companies boasting about "Game X is possible only with power of Console Y" and stuff how technology makes the game they are making what it is. While true, perhaps, does that mean the game will be better? I mean, I thoroughly enjoyed Gears, Oblivion, and am sure to enjoy upcoming games like FF XIII, Halo 3, and MP 3/SMG (these last two games referring more to the interface of the console itself, not the power of the likes of 360/PS3.)

With that said however, I must say that I never seem to find many of these games the "classic" status. It seems that term isn't anymore used to games, because they are still "New" in some terms, however by the time new "better" games are out they are "outdated." Granted, everything becomes outdated regardless, it seems some of the more simpler games from the 16 bit era and 8 bit, seem to live up to today's standards almost just fine. (Reading and basing on counltess reviews for VC/XBLA/PSN old games. )

Now I question though, does anyone believe that there will be a pont where graphics truly aren't everything? Are they NOW? Nintendo doesn't think so, but it's taken some criticism from people, not just fanboys even some devs, about too much lack of power. However, the PS3/360 seem to take some criticism that their approach isn't also improving the industry as much as many would hope either. (sure the 360 is 10 million +, however I will not say that's anything till it passes the Xbox in terms of sales as well...)

Even if we didn't improve the graphis leaps and bounds what they should be, will phsyics be a prominent role in every game? Will 50 GBs of data on one disk be needed? So what do you guys believe? Do graphics have a saturation point? Is power always a prominent role, and should it be the primary? Does Nintendo's approach on trying to be unique have no effect? We can also argue that MS and Sony aren't ignoring Nintendo's philosophy in total either, with XBLA trying to be the "casual" gamer friendly market with games like Uno and Pac-Man. Sony's Eye Toy was a successful child's toy with many mini-games that didn't perhaps reach full potential, but the new one looks like it may have a shot. Although one can argue that it also has the same struggles as the first, which could be that it's seperate from the system, and if games require additional add-ons like cards, it would be harder to sell.

So thoughs? Comments? Concerns?