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Norion on 14 March 2024
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curl-6 said:
Norion said:

I was combining the two consoles there and I never said "main selling point". I said it wouldn't have sold as well as it did if didn't have high quality visuals and a portion of the sales being on Switch doesn't contradict that at all. It is a clear fact that graphics are a significant selling point for some games so I'm not sure why you're arguing with me over that.

Rethinking will need to happen yeah though the tricky part would be making up for the loss of appeal if spectacle is reduced since they'd need to make up for it somehow to avoid a reduction in sales. It's a difficult balance and I'm not sure what exactly companies like Square should do.

It might not have sold as much without countless contributing factors; a game is composed of a multitude of elements each of which adds to the whole in some way. Graphics were just one factor of many, and clearly not essential as the version without them still did well.

A game like Final Fantasy is not going to tank in sales if it looked merely good instead of amazing, most gamers aren't that hung up on cutting edge tech.

That's obviously the case for the first part and yes as long as it didn't look outright bad it still would've sold well due to it being HP but the spectacle was an important contributing factor to just how successful it was, a minority of people playing it on Switch doesn't dispute that. If it wasn't a good looking game not as many people would have bought it, that is a clear fact so again I really don't get the point of this argument.

Where did I say it would "tank" in sales? I ask that you should stop replying to things I never said.

Last edited by Norion - on 14 March 2024