who cares of gameplay graphics this will be great to show off power of XBox over PS2 and power of Sega over EA...
my only concern is these are touched up screenshots, as has been done for many other games (like Kingdom Hearts 2 IIRC)...
one thing for sure, Sega should not give up on the sports market... It takes a long time to start eating away form the market leader, and the truth is the slate of Japanese games to come out of Segammy isn't likely to captivate if they aren't gonna be putting out the same number of games and if they lose some developers...
As long as they at least break even, they should continue their sports line-up to give some value to the SEGA name...