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I think the biggest thing here is that older games also had to have curb appeal.
They had to stand out from the dozens of other boxes on the shelves at Electronics Boutique and the little video game department in larger stores like Sears where they were all often stacked like books, where the only things to differentiate them was the color of the box and logo art.
Now most games don't even have an option to buy a physical media copy and instead it's all online.
At this point, a bigger concern that title visual appeal is making it easily readable by OCR programs, so that some AI knows what it's looking at.