I mentioned AA/AF and textures because you said that most only care about pretty games and then i replied and said, doesnt AA/AF and low res texures impact the eye candy of a game?
But AA/AF and high res textures ARE eye candy. The game is made better looking at the expense of either resolution or frame rate or both.
If the only choice given to developers was was between low res textures no AA but 1080p60 or 4xAA and high res textures and 720p30 then trust me, 720p30 is what we would get because the image would look better.
If they can achieve everything they want and still have power left then they will and do ramp up the resolution and frame rate. Plenty of games however could use more computationally intensive lighting, physics and effects on the next generation hardware at the expense once gain of resolution and frame rate.
Just look at the Vita, it's not selling partly because of the bad press it received - very few were hyped enough to buy it, and it's now being outsold by the PSP in Japan.
I think you're looking at the wrong reasons for Vita not selling well in Japan to be honest. It's 10,000 yen more expensive than its main rival the 3DS, the 3DS just got 3 massive games landing in the same month as the Vita, and the Vita has a very western centric game lineup.
There was plenty of advertising for the Vita in Japan leading up to the launch and plenty of folk knew what it was, what it does and when they could get it. it just doesnt have the software that Japanese gamers are after (yet) and they can get a 3DS with Mario & MonHun for the same price or less than the Vita itself. The PSP is still getting games released for it for the entire year in Japan so that is also cannibalising sales.
The DS on the other hand has practially dried up completely as the 3DS got its massive price drop. As a result Nintendo are bleeding money because the Wii and DS hardware and software sales have dried up and the 3DS is costing them money to sell and thus far only 2.5 3DS games are sold per 3DS.
If bad press is going to have any effect on the Vita it's going to be in the West where every site going is desperate to talk about any possible flaw with the system because it's a very hot topic right now and guarantees page hits.
Destructoid for example put out an article stating that if you bought Everybodys Golf from the PSN you had to then buy a separate online pass but if you bought it retail then it came with it. It was utter rubbish and they
didn't even test it but still ran the story. Eventually they were corrected and they put a note in the article that it was in fact wrong but never changed the title of the article. All of that came hours after hundreds of people had already read the article and even now still think that if you buy games via the PSN you need to buy a seperate Online Pass.
Bad press can have an effect, but if it was that big then the 360 would have been doomed with all the RROD business before Microsoft held their hands up to it.
- do you really think we were talking about a 2 card setup for a console? Really?!?
Still the same point though, I doubt 2 chips would be used for cooling/space reasons.
