he was discussing Star Fox though, surely you do not expect a game about an animal Star Fleet protecting civilans of the galaxy will be in real-to-life graphics do you ? even if it were possible it would be an odd decision, not to mention the series never aimed to look realistic

   I do hear what he is saying, a lot of companies are going for specs specs specs and obsessing over graphics rather than having fun with art styles and cool imagery. I mean how many 'Tomb Raider' looking games do we have?

Yeah I agree and that's how I read it too. To generalize that all games look the same today is stupid and a really bad method of damage control for the response to star fox graphics. Miyamato should stick to game design and stay away from interviews at this point. It's embarrassing.  

disagree with your points, I think a Gears of War game could be really cool if it had more of an over the top cyber punk sort of imagery and possibly less realistic graphics

    I think plenty of people would find it interesting to have totally off the wall graphics in terms of things. who wants to constantly play games that look like real life? gaming sometimes is an escape from real life, it can be nice to see a totally new and alien environment, particularly if it is based on something that we already know and understand

if you're implying that it is difficult to make a 'realistic' looking game or that Nintendo is incapable of that then you're being rather naive. practically every decent sized developer out right now is going with life-like graphics and not struggling to do so whatsoever. its the easy route because it doesn't take much thought in terms of art

your argument was sound but i lacked teeth making it easy to side step the point.  enhancing your argument.

I know that Nintendo has different IP.  Most have been reused quite a bit, though I certainly give then credit for Splatoon.

What they've done in the past, however, many, many times, is to come up with a new game and then re-skin it with a well-known IP, not because it makes sense, but for the sales.  Even now with the new Metroid game, it's the same thing.  And how many yarn games are we going to get?  That's no better than copying Call of Duty's style because it's popular and Nintendo certainly has no moral high-ground in this area.

But I'm not criticizing them for that.  I'm criticizing them for putting themselves on a pedestal when they are doing the same thing.  Nintendo uses the same visual style over and over and they do it because it makes them money, exactly the same as any other company.

They have no right to cast stones when they live in a Mushroom house.

neither Bloodborne or Halo are really aiming for insanely close to reality graphics (one is with monsters, the other with space/future). I think Miyamoto is more addressing the Far Cry's and Assassin's Creeds and Crysis games that you see all over the place that obviously primarily are aiming to look closer to reality

He is right.

You ... do realize that the point I was making was that they were re-using the same style across different kinds of games in different series?  Which is why I didn't show images from sequels?

Thank you for your hard work.  Honestly, I was just too naive and thought it was enough to establish my point.  It seems I was wrong.