I never really thought about it but, maybe one of the thing preventing innovation in games is the lack of console different ports by this I mean,let's look at sonic colours for example On the wii, its 3d. On the ds its 2d as, the ds isn't powerful enough to emulate a wii 3d environments, so they have to make work around hire another team to make the port. Like a b team. And hey maybe now there a bit more experience with the ds hardware and want to make a game as thats a popular selling device. Now there's a reason b team can show there skill and make a new sonic game or another port. Where as now, everything is so consolidated. The only difference now between the different versions is how much fps there is on this console, compared to the other. Also what the fuck is Microsoft thinking laying off the id software team. Like genuinely what is a current year game you can remember discussion about? Now me its, expedition 43 i think and doom like all the other games have been life service and killed off.