In my brain I know it since PS1 when I first saw FF IX and though it couldn't get better.

But since every time it does then I don't really bother with diminishing returns, we are every gen getting closer to almost all games having excelent graphics.

Unless are a developer you can not make such claims. The more  a developer works on the hardware, the better they will get at using it. No matter how you look at it, even if it's not exotic it's still very complex to make games and fully harness the hardware being worked on. Like i said ps4 gains have been gigantic as ps3. Don't try to pass your opinion up as fact.

I mean Look at this, this is the same developer that made killzone, and the visuals in a massive open world destroy killzone visually.

I'm not passing off opinions as fact. 

It is a fact, not an opinion, that PS4/Xbone were built with mature, standardized CPU/GPU technology and PS3/360 were not.

On the other hand, it is an opinion, not a fact, that PS4 has progressed as far as PS3 did graphically.

I never said it was a fact ps4 has progressed as much PS3. You were trying to pass off that's its impossible to see similar gains because of the hardware being standardized CPU/GPU technology, when in fact it is possible just  by engines evolving, and new ways of rendering showing up. 

Engines evolving and new methods of rendering showing up happened last generation too. But in addition to that came big strides in hardware utilization that just haven't happened this time cos the hardware was easy to harness from the get go.

This is just speculation on your part. We don't how big the strides were in hardware utilization were this gen, it's safe to assume ps3 were probably much bigger because it of how complex it was, we can't say ps4 didn't have big strides in hardware utilization when results show it clearly has. Before ps4 came out no developer has ever tried to max out a Radeon HD 7850, with a a weak  8 core Jaguar CPU. Besides engine evolving, and new rendering techniques  alone can be  more impressive  then better hardware utilization  and rendering techniques combined, it just depends how advanced the former is. 

Wanna know how subjective people opinions are in progress here is a video comparison GEARS 1-3 on 360, and most think gears 1 looks the best.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSR0wncErTw&t=134s

Honestly to me  The progression in ps4 and ps4 look very similar, kind find ps4 to be more impressive.

I much prefer sylized graphics and those kind of graphics are good enough att PS2 GC levels if you bump resolution to 720 or 1080.

My biggest problem with "realistic" graphics since PS3/360 days is they fall further and further into the uncanny valley.

If I was to decide I would prefer sylized graphics but focusing the GPU power on having more going on (more effects, more models etc) instead of making it look realistic.

Also for me personally, while playing on a TV at normal viewing distance, the hunt for more pixels is a waste (4K etc). Run it in HD but focus the GPU power on stable framerate and more effects.

It's neither speculation nor opinion that PS4 is based on mature standardized CPU/GPU tech and PS3 used exotic hardware that took developers years to master. Those are the concrete facts of this case.

wow the nostalgia goggles must be pretty thick to think that Gears 1 is the best looking in the series.
Both Gears 2 and Gears 3 look vastly superior which isn't surprising considering Unreal Engine 3 was updated several times in those years.

Also that video not only compares multiplayer gameplay, where graphics are toned down as much as possible to make sure that people have fluent gameplay sessions. They also do split screen that forces a lower resolution.

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Your speculation comes from you assuming big strides were not made on ps4 hardware utilization based on it being off the shelf parts which is nonsense. if you told most people that  Radeon HD 7850 With 8 core Jaguar would be able to run RDR2, Horizon, GOW, and Battlefront they would have thought you were crazy. Even it's off the shelf parts developers still need years of experience to max out the hardware. It took nearly 6 years for some of the most talented developers to actually get games on par with 360 on ps3 , some developers were actually never able to.