[General Discussion] Are developers afraid to make 2D games on Consoles now?

You know guys, having spoken to people from places like Sony Europe, it's not that they're morons who can't design decent games that are fun to play. Making a 3D game doesn't automatically mean it'll be less fun, which seems to be the tone of this thread. What ultimately stifles the creation of fun games is the constant striving for greater profitability in an industry that isn't flowing with milk and honey right now. Plenty of companies out there have gone belly-up despite having great portfolios simply because someone bigger and fatter squeezed them out of the market.

I'm not a fan of most 2D stuff with the exception perhaps of Megaman and certain Pokemon games, and I only play those on an emulator anyway. 3D has a lot of potential, which I highly doubt will reach a limit in six years time. FFX CGI is supposed to be realistic? Look out the window and think again. nVidia is aiming for photo-realism and I don't think they'll stop until they have it. Wasn't it them that created a "Spirits Within" realtime demo for their GeForce 4 series?

Anyway, I don't think that very creative and/or fun games will come out except in two alternative circumstances; either it's a small upstart of a company that is willing to risk it all on an innovative game just to get their names out there, or it's a huge and wealthy company that has so much financial security that it can afford to invest in something more radical and accept the risk should it end up a failure.

Jam it back in, in the dark.