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[Chrkeller]

Soundwave said:

Chrkeller said:

I'm pretty sure Capcom said more remakes are coming, so I'm guessing a number of copies sold at full price.  

You are still making this an all or nothing discussion. 

Graphics aren't everything but they do matter.  If they didn't remakes would not be selling millions.

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If your point is Cyberpunk shouldn't be the standard, fair enough, I agree. 

Most remakes don't sell that great. Where's the buzz on the Dead Space remake? 

The first four Resident Evil games are among the most beloved games of their previous generations, that's why they are selling as a primary factor ... the nostalgia. If Capcom remade Dino Crisis with graphics as good or even better than RE4 Remake, does anyone really think it would even sell 1/3 the copies? It wouldn't. 

If graphics were the driving factor for a majority of gamers, games like Alan Wake 2 should be debuting no.1 on the Circana charts and being among the top selling games of the year. It didn't even chart in the top 20. 

Instead what are kids playing ... shit like Roblox and Fornite and Minecraft, lol. 

The thing with graphics is they don't really impress younger kids anymore I think. That's just a standard and they don't really think of it as anything special, kind of like no one today really runs up to you and says "wow the special effects in this movie were amazing! You should see it!" ... because everyone is used to CGI in movies that it's not anything special any longer. But like 20+ years ago, it was still novel when a movie had incredible effects. Same thing is happening with game graphics, the upgrades have become boring and rote and predictable, the number of people who really care is less and less and this will compound and get even worse as we move forward. 

Even look at the context of what we're talking about right now, RE4 Remake ... a PS4 game ... a PS4 is 11 years old now. The PS4 is as old today as the Super NES was when the Playstation 2 launched, lol. Imagine when the PS2 launched if you were holding up an SNES game as an example of a graphics showcase game. 

It doesn't mean graphics and hardware power are irrelevant, but it is definitely less and less of factor to gamers and becoming more and more of an issue to developers because of the skyrocketing costs. 

The amount of false correlations you draw is funny.  

Dead Space Remake sold a few million.

Alan Wake 2 sales are low.....  and it isn't available on Steam.  Sales would be much higher if not for blocking the largest base of consumers in gaming.

Games have scalable engines, it isn't 1995 anymore, your comparisons are based on an antiquated understanding of tech.

Look at it this way.  Why release a switch 2 if graphics don't matter?  Hmm...  maybe Nintendo is looking to release new and more powerful hardware because graphics play a part in consumer acceptance.

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Personally I think the ps4 was sony's best system in design.  Super powerful and well priced.  Sony made some big mistakes with the ps5, just my opinion, that is holding it back.  It should have been a standard ssd storage and more put into the gpu.  

Last edited by Chrkeller - on 13 March 2024