It's a rare thing to see a company ask the question "Do we matter?" in public, but graphics card maker Nvidia did just that last week at the discussion at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA. The company gathered some Game Gods like Will Wright (The Sims), Rand Miller (Myst) and Jordan Mechner (Prince of Persia) to talk about whether better graphics really do make for better games. Wright came right out and said that, "It doesn't really matter what graphics you map on top of [the game]," which maybe isn't exactly what Nvidia (which makes the big bucks convincing gamers to upgrade their video cards every few months), but refreshingly honest nonetheless. Gameplay always trumps graphics.
