| masschamber said: these systems are being sold on the notion of top of line visuals, look at something like earth defense force, the game is a lot of fun, but professional reviewer basically trashed the game over it's visuals calling that they need things like a bigger budget, EDF doesn't seem to be doing to well seriously if games don't look good why shouldn't it be on the wii? |
Did Earth Defense Force get trashed because it didn't have the budget to provide good visuals or did Earth Defence Force get trashed because the XBox 360 was sold on its visuals?
If you take away the processing power improvements of the XBox 360 and gave it the exact same hardware as the XBox the XBox 360 would still be a far better system due to its user interface improvements and new services. The XBox 360 struggles to sell in a large part due to Microsoft's narrow focus on selling the system based on its graphical capabilities in a time where we are seeing diminishing returns from improved graphics.
Had Microsoft focused more on XBox Live Arcade and also developed a lot of mid budget games, resulting in a large library of excellent more graphically simple games it would have resulted in reviewers being less focused on graphics when they reviewed more graphically simple games.
