Leadified on 15 October 2017
Framerate was always important to an extent. If you had the choice between Doom on the SNES and Doom on the PC, why would you choose the SNES version? If you were a kid at the time, you didn't have much choice so you just stuck with what you had, having Doom on the SNES then cool it was better than having nothing. There was also the novelty of playing in a 3D environments which made up for short comings.
Now a lot of those gamers have grown up, the novelty of 3D gaming has worn off and priorities have simply shifted towards things like performance.
