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sc94597 on 25 April 2015
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Dr.Henry_Killinger said:
sc94597 said:

I don't think anyone is saying tha developers should be required externally. I think what they're saying is that once players start to experience this feature in games they will demand it from developers, as they do now with a plethora of things. It's just one of many ways to compete. 

While input is useful, you don't go designing your games around it.

 

At the same time however, i think it will be a long time before a sizeable portion of the console audience even cares about graphical options cause trouble shooting to provide a preferable experience directly contradicts the ease of use tenent of Console Philosophy.

Well it might or might not become a standard that sells a game, just like 1080p is these days. Adding this feature doesn't limit the creativity of the developer. All it does is force them to do more work to optimize the game for multiple settings. 

@ Bolded It doesn't have to be the players who do the troubleshooting. Since these are closed platforms the developer can do the troubleshooting and then provide presets with descriptions like, "If you like a smoother experience, and want higher frames per second a the cost of higher image quality, choose this option." So on and so on. There is still the convenience factor over PC gaming because in PC gaming you have a specific hardware that the developer didn't keep in mind (they kept general hardware in mind) when creating the graphical options.