Yeah, and I'm glad. It feels to me like games were way off track for a LONG time(like, a decade) and now they're finally getting the right mindset and going back to the original format. I just hope they stick with it. I was looking forward to the future of gaming that I had in mind in the 90s. It just ended up changing and I didn't like how it turned out so much.
I think the whole polygon craze threw everything off.. Everyone started trying their platformers in 3 dimensions instead of two. Sure, some 3 dimensional games were done well and sometimes even RIGHT, but to me they never had the same feeling as the original 2D versions. Of course, I'm talking mainly here about the classic series: Castlevania, Metroid, Mario, Zelda, Donkey Kong and Sonic type games and their incarnations on the past two generation systems.
Anyways, I've read a few interviews with modern game designers on various internet sites and quite a few are feeling the same as us retro gamers. The reason they got into creating video games is to make the games that they always wanted to play. We're seeing a big boom in retro style games, thankfully, because of this.