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Well, going by the past few years and the recent release of X I would say yes. Otherwise, I doubt Microsoft would bother with the typ of power they released in the X.
There has always been a niche for graphics hounds in gaming, but nowadays it's a smaller niche. I'd imagine gamers as a whole take graphics in as the norm, they're almost desensitized to it you could say.
These graphics hounds will be here a while longer, but their days are numbered.
Graphics are argued by eight year olds, gamers argue about whether that game is worth it. So, do graphics sell? If you want to win a niche, yes. Not an audience.
Yes, and sadly it's always one of the first things to be used as ammunition when discussing which console is "winning the console wars", by the less sophisticated members of the gaming community.
Graphics have always sold games. Other aspects of gaming people either don't know, or care about. Frame rate has never been a selling point because most people don't know what a frame or frame rate is. Gameplay has always sold games as well. It's why games like PUBG aren't looking too hot or running that well can still prevail.
Well most Sony games sell off of the premise of graphics, I mean Uncharted has some of the most uninspired and generic gameplay but it's graphics are steller, same with Spiderman and God of War, it's always about graphics.