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prayformojo on 20 July 2014
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Intrinsic said:
prayformojo said:
Player2 said:
prayformojo said:
720P 60FPS>1080P 30FPS. But having said that, who cares? Why SHOULD we care? I don't recall playing Pacman in the arcades when I was 5 going "gee, this shit needs more frames per second."

Pacman ran at 60FPS. I'd bet you don't recall people saying "OMG! This looks horrible! I'm blind!" too.


I don't recall anyone talking about "graphics" until companies started using it as bullet points to sell their products. The bottom line is, they don't matter. It's cliche, but true. Angry Birds and Minecraft wouldn't exist otherwise. 

You couldn't be more wrong if you tried :)

First off, companies started using them as bullet points only after all consumers talked about was "OMG did you see how  good that looked???"

Secondly, I think what is cliche are the amount of people that claim something that obviously matters doesnt matter. There is a very big difference from being able to do without or something not mattering. Take your minecraft example for instance... if you could recreate the exact same experience, sell it at the exact same price and run it on the exact same hardware but have one looking like it does now and the other looking as good as crysis 3. Which of these two games do you think people will buy? I can bet every organ in my body that no one will buy the bad looking version of the game. Its like making 2 versions GTA5 with one version looking like GTA3 and both running on a PS4 and priced at $60. Yet in some deluded world you want us to believe that the GTA3 looking version will sell just as much as the GTA5 looking version, on the same console for the same price???

So yh, "graphics" do matter.

Compaines started using graphics as bullet points AFTER people started caring about it? Ever heard of blast processing? Yeah, ok.

And secondly, your point is moot. People BUY Mincraft. Total sales have eclipsed just about anything last gen that didn't have the words Mario or Sports in it (Wii games were 480P for fucks sake). Graphics, FPS, 720P/1080P...these are INTERNET message board nerd debates. The average guy or child doesn't know what a frame per second IS. They don't know, they don't care.

The only thing that matters for the vast majority is how "good" the game is. It's been true since Astroids and it'll be true until gaming is dead.