| V-r0cK said: The stupidest myth; video games causes violence. Wrong. Its just a lame excuse for stupid parents that cant accept that they couldnt raise a good child. |
i'm surprised nobody has came out with this one yet, I think it's the most important misconception about gaming.
Anyway, I OBJECT!
-Nintendo only produces underpowered hardware:
While Nintendo doesn't produce underpowered hardware all the time, as of recently, they have. Both the Wii and even the DS are significantly underpowered. You didn't include DS on the list because it was technically impressive when it first came out, this only lasted a year before the PSP release and made the Nintendo DS look closer to last generation graphics than current gen.
-The 3DS has weak hardware:
The same concept about the DS applies, while it is impressive at the moment and better than any other handheld console on the market, when the PS Vita releases, you will realise how "last generation" the graphics are. While I have only played the 3DS in a game shop, when it comes to processing speeds and hardware specs, the 3DS is extremely underpowered, the step up in power is similar to that of the Wii. Luckily, the small screen and the 3D mode creates an "illusion" that makes the graphics look better.
As for other misconceptions...
-The Blu-Ray drive in the PS3 has an impact on graphics:
This isn't believed by many people on VGChartz, but on many other websites (especially Youtube), I see PS3 fanboys talk about Blu-Ray as if it has a huge impact on graphics and is the reason why games like Killzone 3 and Uncharted 2 look so good. The only remote impact it will have on graphics is the fact that you have more space to store uncompressed textures and use pre-rendered video.
-Any game which isn't rated "M" is childish:
This is one which irritated me a lot, people who label games like Sonic, LittleBigPlanet, Mario and similar games as "childish". Some people avoid these games simply because they don't have guns and gore, without even taking into consideration whether the game is good or not. Most of these "gamers" don't even know that some of THESE games are the reason why THEIR games exist today.
