Are long time gamers less impressed with graphics than newer gamers?

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Legend11 said:
I'm always impressed when there's a game that surprises you by how good looking it is compared to other games in it's genre in the past.

What I do find annoying though is that I remember during the SNES days seeing many Nintendo fans putting down the Genesis because of it's graphics and now with the Wii suddenly some are trying to convince everyone that "graphics don't really matter". Bull... And it's not just graphics that the more powerful machines have, it's the ability to have better AI and Physics as well as better graphics.

I have no doubts that if the Wii was as powerful as the 360 and PS3 that some of it's fans would be posting comparison pictures, gushing over graphics, etc, just like people do on other systems.

 Yeah but SNES and Genesis were damn near identical in games and hardware.  That's like 360 vs. PS3.

The Wii is clearly different...there's only been 7 generations of game systems, not everything can be defined using the previous generations.