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ishiki on 17 April 2013
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Michael-5 said:
ishiki said:
They do matter, when stuck with the choice of 2 games with everything exactly the same except graphics. People are going to pick the one with better graphics unless they're a hipster.

imo FPS, resolution, screen tearing bothers me a lot. I'd rather games turn off bells and whistles like Wipeout HD to run at 60 FPS and a high resolution.

Graphics do make certain games better, for instance crysis 3 on PC is a game I'd give like a 6-6.5, but I'd give it a 7.5-8.0 because it's a spectacle. The thing with spectacles is they aren't spectacles forever. I'd get hanged for this, but the animation in uncharted makes itself a better experience. If the animation wasn't so good, I'd be much less excited to play it.

If 2 games are exactly the same, but have different graphics, people will go for the version of the game available on their console. People won't buy Battlefield 4 for PS4 if they only have a PS3.

If you mean similar games, it's hard to find an example of two similar games available on the same console, one with good and one with bad graphics. I could mention New Super Mario Bros. Wii outselling Galaxy, but it was bundled, and they gameplay is different.

What about Call of Duty and Killzone? Yes Killzone is sci fi, and CoD isn't, but Killzone 3's online feels a lot like Modern Warfare 3, and Killzone is the better game graphically, yet people buy CoD over it.

So it would appear to me that graphics have little, to no say on a games sales.

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Are you're saying that graphics only matter in FPS's, but in other genres people care more about animation, and maybe artistic design?

You're introducing other variables, CoD sells on brand recognition, other things etc. FPS = Frames per Second.

2 exactly the same games, on the exact same system, released at the exact same time, exact same controls. WIth only different graphics. Which one would you pick? That is my point.  In order for them not to matter, you'd have to have no preference in this hypothetical situation. I'm not saying graphics are more important than something else, or even that important.

Animation, and artistic design I would consider graphics in videogames.Graphics are obviously not the most important factor, otherwise everyone would have PC SLI'ed Geforce Titans.