| Insanestalker2 said:
that is true, graphics isnt everything... mostly gameplay but games that look better tend to sell more. |
I would change your statement to read "... mostly gameplay, but games that look significantly better while preserving great gameplay tend to sell more."
Honestly, I can't think of a time when I've bought a game because it "looked fantastic." I've gotten pumped about a game that looked fun after seeing how great the graphics were, but I can't for the life of me remember a single instance where I looked at at a game and bought it because "the graphics look really cool." Can you?
My guess is that graphics are either icing on the cake, i.e. - people would buy the game anyway for the gameplay but get the better graphics as a bonus... or people buy one console over another because the library of games is more compelling due to gameplay, or they're the elite few (I'm one of them) that wants that "quantum leap" in graphics, in general. I own a Wii for the party games, but I bought the 360 because I wanted something that could run HD games. Unless the PS3 had *much* better graphics, I don't see the point in choosing it over the 360 simply because the graphics are "20%" better, etc. Now if the PS3 could display graphics that looked absolutely photo-realistic (could not be distinguished from a video recording), then yeah, I would already own a PS3. As it turned out, I bought the 360 so I could play Halo.
