Over at filfre, an article held a quote from one of the game devs from back around the C64 era. It boiled down to the notion that the gaming industry have a (b

Over at filfre, an article held a quote from one of the game devs from back around the C64 era. It boiled down to the notion that the gaming industry have a (bad) habit of resetting itself whenever there is a solid change in hardware available. Resulting in years of glitzy but shallow games as devs spend time showing of what they can make the hardware do more than making deeply engaging game. So it may well be that recent years of lagging Moore's Law payouts have resulted in game devs having to refocus their effort on something other than graphics prowess to get their games to sell.