According to a Tokyo based research firm Enterbrain Inc, Nintendo sold 251,794 units in May outselling Sony’s PS3 by a factor of five to one. It’s been a slide for the former king of the video game console. Sony desperately needs to recoup some losses from its investment into the machines formidable hardware. Sony PS3 sports the most powerful processor in the game console business and it's costing Sony a princely sum to keep it competitively affordable.

It’s a classic sales war between Sony’s brute force approach to hardware production vs. Nintendo’s ability to bring us something we’ve never seen before. The Wii-‘mote is easily the biggest draw to the Nintendo Wii. It’s the controller that allows users to stand up and play games by swinging the controller in the air. It’s just plain infectious fun.

But the PS3 has power to spare and includes a Blu-ray player, HDMI and many of the latest high tech features you may never even use. Could we possibly see a paradigm shift in the way games are made? Most gamers will tell you gameplay is more important than graphics. But read any review online and you’ll see complaints about any game that doesn't measure up to today's technology graphically.

Of course there are successes that bucks the trend. Diablo II comes to mind with Neanderthal graphics it’s still one of the most played games ever. But it was Diablo II - Blizzard probably could have released it on an Etch-a-Sketch and it would have done as well. As a gamer myself, gameplay gets my vote every time. I’d like to see the elaborate production costs take a dip so I could see more innovative, new ideas pressed to disc.