Dear Future Gamer.

First off: great mag. I just hope it stays free. Why do PlayStation owners always seem to say when a new game comes out, usually a sequel, "The graphics are much better"? I can see that graphics in PlayStation games are improving but why do they not start off this good if the machine is capable of producing them from the outset?

I believe that while the technology is there for today's standards Sony do not want its machine to be running at its best graphical quality from the outset. Remember, the PS cannot be upgraded so if this achievement of max graphic quality happens the game companies will have a hard time improving them and so the much (over) used words 'ground-breaking graphics' would not be making their regular appearance in the PlayStation mags.

While this can be said for most consoles (apart from the Saturn which vanished before better graphics could appear for it, poor thing), the same cannot be said for the PC. Vote PC in the 'mine's better than yours' wars. How else would you be reading this letter, and the great FG, without one?

David Cousins

FG: Sorry to disappoint David, but Sony aren't behind some giant conspiracy to eke out extra gameplaying years with their machine by only producing games that aren't able to use the machine's full capabilities to start with. The fact is, it takes programmers a while to get to grips with the technology. The more they know, the better the games become but this takes a while - for all machines - which is why better looking (at least) games tend to take a year or two to appear.