Lego vs World of Warcraft?

Lego vs World of Warcraft?
While doing some mundane web browsing I came across this little article on the Escapist www. escapistmagazine.com, honestly check out this website it's pretty good for Games Design. Anyway on the Escapist I found this http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/103848-Lego-Bricks-Require-More-Polygons-Than-World-of-Warcraft-Avatars, in which the creative director of the new Lego Universe game proudly announces that 'a two by eight lego brick, is about twice the polygons of say a World of Warcraft character'.

Now that to me shows a few things, one how incredibly anal Lego are about detail in their products, how technology has changed and advanced. But most importantly how stupid Lego are, one of the principal reasons for WoW success is how easy it is to run on even the most basic of computers and this is achieved by a simple design throughout the game. Who cares how simple the characters are they look great even though they are a little old, it's just clever game design. Now take Lego Universe for an example the only people with computers fast enough to run the game are going to be hardcore computer users, perhaps not the targetted audience for a Lego game??

Now I just want to leave this post by saying I don't play WoW, I did at one point and found it to be the most absorbing game I've ever played. However suddenly I realised one day that I had barely left my computer for the month since I'd bought the game. Still an amazing game though.