These games are not about high quality rendering, and really can't be -- the computing environment they ship to is not homogeneous enough. Pirates of The Caribb

These games are not about high quality rendering, and really can't be -- the computing environment they ship to is not homogeneous enough. Pirates of The Caribbean looks like Ocarina of Time. While snazzy rendering won't really go anywhere with these games, server side physics just might -- you can control the platform, and as the games move from "pre-teen" to "young adult" you get into domains where realism (in the sense of convincing motion, compression of rubber objects and the like) can add a lot even without fancy rendering.