...and you know, completeley DIFFERENT ENGINE

I call BS to the industry abandoning 60fps. I feel that 60 fps is seen as more important than 1080p, already.

Besides, fighting games?

Then how are they leading the way in response to ND?

60fps has been standard in most of Nintendo's games for a while now.

MKWii was 60fps, so MK8 targeted 60fps.

DKCR was 60fps, so Tropical Freeze targeted 60fps.

Mario Galaxy 1 & 2 were 60fps, so 3D World targeted 60fps.

Its about frames per second. 

I don't know what Ubisoft ate, but they're saying weird things lately. Everything they said in the last week only sounds like poor excuses to my ears. It's making it hard for me to keep liking them.

Maybe they should just make a good new Anno game so I'll like them again .

Which doesn't contradict anything I said.

They opt for FPS instead of visuals. Nintendo games could look better but Nintendo doesn't want to. Which is a fair choice.

FPS has more to do with how well the code runs then the graphic detail. Yes overburdening the CPU/GPU does have a part in the process but it comes down to how well the code works. And with the publishers and developers moving towards canned engines instead of their own in house engines in the console market they are not finding the "time" savings they thought they would. Yes you can get the game up and running faster but canned game engines come with a massive amount of generic code and sometimes unneed functions for the game the require them to be opitimized, so to find the savings they are not doing as much optimization as they should so instead of the great game in the mechanical sense they are opting for a good game because the publishers ends up wondering why they are not shipping a running game.

I guess " drop" just seemed to me to have the connotation of them downgrading visuals.

Between 60-30 is already a very stable performance, as long as it never drops the 30.