Nintendo: next gen is about “improving gaming experience” “wonderful graphics won’t help”

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richardhutnik said:

Andrespetmonkey said:
Because improving how a largely VISUAL medium looks won't improve the experience.

I mean I see his point, gameplay and "innovation" (that word is tossed around way too lightly in this industry) comes first, but when a game looks amazing it improves the experience immensely. It's a big part of the experience and it's what turned a lot of core gamers away from the Wii.

The amount of return you get from updating graphics is getting less and less.  I would ask now, based on what you see with graphics today, are the games unplayable?    I bet one can go back in 10 years and look at 3D stuff today, and find a number of games that would still be playable.  I contrast that with 3D stuff on the original Playstation and a number of them fall VERY short of desirable now.

couldnt you say the same for stuff like motion gaming?? Alot of those games are unplayable now. Its just the tech. 3d was new back with PS1 so there was alot of trail and error, but it improved over time. Not much different than motion control tech now