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

Graphics will plateau when we reach FFX CG levels of quality, and that won't be for a while, and by then another "goal", so to speak, will have arisen for graphics. The industry is noticably turning towards physics and interaction in games, with the PS3 (by nature of it's processor) and Revolution (because of it's controller and rumored PPU) leading the way.

I highly doubt 2D will climb back on top, especially with public perception about those times of games as it is. High resolution sprites and backgrounds coupled with next gen effects would be damn nice though.

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Originally Posted by Zio

Most games I think would be rather better as sidescrollers aka 2D(or 3D but still 2D to a degree.) such as Metroid and other games such as as those.

And that's what Cetra was getting at.. that's pretty limiting. Metroid Prime 2D probably would've been a completely different experience, far less immersive than what we've got now. How many 2D side scrollers have we seen since gaming started? Things would have to get pretty gimmicky for them to start becoming popular again.

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