This upcoming gen - most pointless gen ever?

Honestly, the PS3 and 360 are doing nothing to improve the experience of this generation, outside of improving the visuals and making systems more powerful.

The early gen created gaming.

NES/SMS revived it, expanded it.

Genesis/SNES expanded it even more.

Saturn/PSX/N64 brought 3D, expanded it.

DC/PS2/XB/GC vastly improved the 3D.

This gen, I wouldn't say vastly improved it, and the only reason I would say it expanded the industry is because of the Revolution.

If these visuals I've seen are the best that these systems can be done, the systems have no reason to exist. Sony and MS would do better to just work on bringing out the best in the PS2 and Xbox instead of demanding $400/$500 for new visuals and better hardware - not a new gaming experience.

good point my fellow 2-D lovers, 2D is still king for tough action. games like smash brothers, viewtiful joe, and dare i bring it up again? cave story, take advantage of the simplicity of 2-d gameplay. it'd be undoubtably much harder to do those games in full 3-D. in 2-D everything is laid out in front of you. 3-d can hide stuff behind you, make jumps that SHOULD be simple difficult due to lack of depth percetion from a TV screen, and can generally had a LOT of hassle.