[Lexinom]

Glad to hear it. Nintendo was always my favorite of the big game companies going back to the SNES vs. the Genesis days. It seems the most dedicated to quality and propriety. Their philosophy also accounts for intangibles.

The trap people fall into is assuming that more processing power equates to better games. Making a great game requires enormous skill and is as much an art as a science - and the hardware will not do that for you. I look at these games in stores occasionally just to see if they are still crap - esp. since 3-D perspective became the norm. They still are, esp. the physics. The Mario series is the single exception.

[EasySt]

Not to take anything away from the Nintendo and their Mario series at all, but I didn’t find the physics in the PS3’s "Motor Storm" or "WarHawk" to be disappointing, and with up to 12 or 32 players rocking at 720p or 1080i and using bluetooth headsets, they offer some serious fun... ;-)

You're quite correct that the extra processing power doesn't guarantee great games, but the potential is there, and it's starting to bear fruit.