| curl-6 said: Here's my problem with this "update every 2-3 years" idea; I don't want games in 2020 and 2021 to run like shit on my base Switch. I paid $479 for my system, I want at least a good 5 years of support from it without being forced to buy gimped, choppy versions of games that come out after the Switch 1.5, fuck that shit.
Switch was behind Playstation/Xbox/PC from day one though, so people have already accepted that its not graphically competitive, they knew that when they bought it. As such, I think that's a pill the general audience has already swallowed and that it falling even further behind visually just isn't a big deal. |
The thing about PC gaming is that the number of people who care about the highest-fidelity graphics as a selling point began to decline quite a while ago. 8-bit and 16-bit games have had a surge in popularity in the last few years. The majority of the top-selling Steam games have kind of a "Wii/PS2 HD" look to them - that is, they are clearly higher resolution than a Wii or a PS2 game, but no more detailed... some of them look like Dreamcast HD games. I do think people began turning away from the graphics race as early as the PS2 era, and certainly by the Wii era.
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