Load Times and 30FPS - Crash Bandicoot Remaster (Gaming)

by CyberKN , Oh no, Destiny 2 is bad, Sunday, July 02, 2017, 15:15 (2702 days ago) @ Cody Miller

The VAST majority of people don't care about framerate, or we would see a gulf in sales between games that are 60fps and games that are not. that gulf doesn't exist.

You cannot compare apples to wampa fruit. The only way is to play a version of the same game, one in 30fps, the other in 60. Such comparisons exist. Nathan Drake collection blows the PS3 originals out of the water with its smooth 60fps presentation, and the aiming feels a million times better. Looking at sales of popular games and seeing a mix of 30fps and 60fps means nothing.

It means the traits that make a game sell don't have to do with framerate (and I would also argue graphical fidelity as a whole, but game marketers love having shiny trailers and screenshots). Good luck convincing your publisher to fund additional thousands of hours of dev time for a thing which has no empirical evidence of affecting either sales or review scores.

The other games I've made in my own time are just as fun at 60 as they are at 30.

And are these games action games that depend on reflexes, tight timings, and precision? 30fps is fine for many genres.

80 is also not terribly high for metacritic. That's 'average'. Good is 90+

TIL Deus Ex is just barely "good".

You seem pretty dead set on this, so I'm just going to use this space to inform you that it's not going to change any time soon.