The drive for graphical performance is detrimental to the industry

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palou said:

globalisateur said:

2003? Graphics were already top notch in 2003, there was already a graphics war in 2003. If you really believe graphics are detrimental to videogames you need to go deeper with your logic.

We need Nes graphics. Welp, Batman on NES was already too good looking!

We need Pong graphics on Atari in order to make gameplay, innovation and experience the heart of what videogames should be...

With that kind of reasoning, it's either Pong graphics or continuous graphics improvement like we have today. You can't choose a good enough hardware in the middle.

A minimum is needed to represent things appropriately in games.

I would claim that that had been reached in the gamecube/ps2/xbox era.

No it is not. Some of us played text adventures when you get in the vic20/c64 days.