While I more or less agree with you, and there's nothing wrong with graphical fidelity in itself, I think the argument is more one of priorities. If you have 6

While I more or less agree with you, and there's nothing wrong with graphical fidelity in itself, I think the argument is more one of priorities. If you have 6 months to build a game, do you spend 3 on graphics and 3 on gameplay or do you spend 5 on graphics and 1 on gameplay. Personally, I have no insight into the game industry, so it's very possible that it's not a zero sum tradeoff, and crappy games would just be crappy games with crappy graphics if they focused on graphics less, but I wouldn't be at all surprised if gameplay was at least somewhat scarified for graphics.