Game developers are blown away by Tears of the Kingdom

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zeldaring said:

curl-6 said:

Given how wildly popular both BOTW and now TOTK have been without cutting edge graphics but with a highly accomplished physics system as one of its key features, I don't think it's true that most only care for graphics.

People have cared about physics for decades. They were a selling point in tons of older games, from Crysis to Half Life 2.

So 4 games in decades of gaming, and crisis was not a huge success, half life did good but nothing amazing. BOTW main selling point was freedom/exporation and not physics.  TOTK is like the first real one but it's also riding botw massive success. Graphics are much bigger selling point.

The average person doesn't care that much about graphics. If they did then the gameboy, ds, 3ds, wii, switch, ps2 would have all bombed. Games like pokemon, minecraft, tetris etc would not be among the best sellers of all time.