I actually read this yesterday, it's something I've thought about and i think the article was pretty good about it.

I think VeloZer0 summed up how I feel. I hope a crash happens so we can get all the mutual funds big corporate investors out of here and get this thing back to an art/science instead of a business. We don't need video games to be accepted by the mainstream to start seeing quality titles. It's actually quite the opposite, I believe.

Also, others have pointed out how there is a concrete, knowledgeable fanbase of "hardcore" (ugh, buzzword) gamers who know what we like and buy it, so we don't have to worry. I actually feel like a waggle-collapse could be disastrous to the industry because of how much money is put into it and relied on it, that it could cripple everything.

That being said, waggle is a fad, and when the exodus begins, it will be a turning point for video games.

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As far as I'm concerned there's already an overflow on the market besides shovelware, in the form of an endless pit of FPS, Racing and Sports games.
This is true and I sympathize with how you feel, but unfortunately there's been so many great racing and FPS games I'm almost ashamed to admit how many of them I've really liked. I'm actually having a blast right now with Bad Company 2 as I type this. I said to myself "this is the last kind of these games I have to buy," but already I know Resistance 3, Killzone 3, Crysis 2 and Far Cry 3 are all games I'm going to inevitably get and play the crap out of, even the new Medal of Honor is looking pretty good. Mo-Nercy summed it up about the racing games, but left out one of my favorites of today, Motorstorm, man I'm addicted with this stuff I would never imagine playing last "generation" (ugh buzzword).

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Except nothing new happened in graphicsland since 2007 with Crysis, and that's only going to be surpassed by its own sequel. These past years graphics have pretty much stayed the same because of the consoles being the bigger platform now.
Well it depends. As far as progression, yeah, but there's barely anything aside Metro 2033 that even comes close to that (other than Crysis 2 on PC as you mentioned) so it's kind of like its own little thing. I think a big story is that the large publishers have kicked their reliance on the Unreal Engine 3. Personally that's huge to me considering how literally every other game used it only a year and a half or two ago. Also, I think motion blur's going to be a really big thing now. It made God of War III stand out as a beautiful artistic work in motion, it wasn't the first necessarily, but it's the first to use it in a good way and well. Look at the Reach Beta - it's Halo 3 with motion blur and the results speak for themselves.

Lastly, I think how far developers have pushed the PS3 has been a big thing. A lot of people feel the recent footage of Crysis 2 on consoles hasn't matched Killzone yet. And of course there's God of War as well