I think their console release timing was part of their strategy (seemingly) up to that point, and strangely with the DC a lot of it looked even better than its successor, while prior to that it was more about destroying ass old competition (like NES vs. Genesis or SNES vs. Saturn). The graphics to me on the DC with S-Video looked way ahead of its time, maybe more so than ever before on any console. But from other people's reactions, somehow the PS2 was king of that. I still remember my friend losing his shit over the grass on the Tekken game that launched with the PS2.