Tbh, they have spent too much on graphics recently, the games have been crap...

Sup Com ... Fantastic graphics engine... boring gameplay

C&C3 ... Great looking game... no lasting appeal

Now i can still go back and play WC3 and it yes it isnt the most fantastic graphics ever. But the game is amazing, and it looks decent.

PC sales have dropped recently because not enough people have the hardware to run the games well enough, you make a game too graphically intensive and you cut your market massively.

Another reason why WoW did so well, it is a reasonably low power engine

Alot of the uk sales now is down to more games like "The Sims" in which sales are growing, also alot of MMORPG games.

The big shiny flashy graphics titles arent selling well, just look at EAs profit figures.

I have to admit company of heroes is impressive, though with Relic having a game like DoW under its belt that isnt suprising.

Also we havent really seen that much of SC2 yet, only a few bits of footage, I would rather they keep closer to the original than go off at a tangent and spoil the brilliant SC formula.

I am actually finding the super high graphics games harder to play because the screen becomes too fussy with all the fancy effects, especially RTS games