I don't feel like reading through all of this shit, but I will post my opinion on this matter. Graphics now, won't ever look bad in the future, will you ever go back and play MGS3 or RE4 and say "Damn, I can't believe I thought these graphics were once good..."
Next generation graphics fail to impress me today, it just seems like that there just upping the polygons, I'm sorry but Zelda Twilite Princess looks more beautiful than 80% of "next gen" games, and its a gamecube game graphically. With Wii technology and up, the graphical horse power is enough to display the visual beauty of a game, but at this point, its more of the artistic point and how you handle that technology.