OXM: Dear PC graphics snobs - you're holding gaming back

[JEMC]

I disagree.

Yes, there are some people, those PC elitists in this case, that are annoying. And wrong in some respects. But i's undeniable that, with more powerful consoles, games could be different. After all, most of the complains about consoles are about the small amount of RAM and how it affects things like the size of the maps and the size/quality of the textures.

And then, there is this bit:

"Games are about ideas before they're about touchable, lickable shots of rocket batteries and vegetation. Some of the most boring games in the universe are astonishingly photogenic, while some of the most entertaining - Link's Awakening on the Gameboy, for instance - run on rubberbands and sticky-tape. Ideas don't need beefy CPUs to thrive.!.

It is true that better graphics don't mean better games, but we have all hear developers talking about a game and how they had the idea for that games years ago but couldn't make the game because of the tech back then.