Resting among old video games

I've been reminded quite a bit lately that, quite frankly, next-generation video games are all vastly inferior to older generations. It seems that gone are the days of "let's make a game that fun," replaced with "lets make a game that looks pretty and has lots of guns." Not to say there aren't old games that are bad, and also that there aren't new games that are good, but let's make a comparison here:

The Electronics Entertainment Expo is where most of the most popular games are revealed. If you look at the Expo a few years ago, it was laden with new and original titles that people were excited about. Now some of the games revealed more recently go something like this: "Modern Warfare 2", "Assassin's Creed 2", "Bioshock 2", "Fallout 3", "Resident Evil 5", and so on. Seeing a pattern here?

It seems that nowadays, people are afraid of trying something new, and are content with simply playing polished versions of games that they have already played.