Have we hit the technology wall?

[The_vagabond7]

rocketpig said:

The_vagabond7 said:
I agree with gameboy, the graphical leap this generation was minimal. My bro does have a 360 with HD TV, and I've seen Heavenly sword and Ratchet on a big screen HD TV at my friends house, and it's not the same leap as in previous generation. From NES to SNES you went from blocky things (almost just symbols) that represented characters, to bright colorful worlds that were very distinct and recognizable. I mean play Super Mario Brothers 3 on the VC and see how dull the colors are, the flicker at the edges of the screen, the vacant single color backdrops and that was the best graphics on the NES right there. Then play super Mario world with it's rich colors, virbrant backgrounds, huge enemies, it was beautiful at the time, and the later games like Super Metroid are still gorgeous.

You're completely ignoring the fact that this generation is barely getting rolling. Two years into the sixth generation, we were still seeing games that were marginally better than the PS1 generation and the Xbox/GC still hadn't even released.

There is still three to four years left in this gen and games will continue to look better and better.

PS. If you don't see huge advancements from GoWII (last major release in the previous gen) to Heavenly Sword, Gears, and Mass Effect, you aren't looking very hard. It's not only the graphics; the physics, environments, AI, and number of things onscreen are making huge gains.

 Yes, they can do more. I never denied that, the worlds are more expansive, large, detailed, crisp, more going on, but the point is that's not that impressive, they did the same thing last time. It's just a slight evolution, rather than actually trying to do something new and important, they opt to do the same thing over again but slightly better.

The PS2 in two years definately put out things that were far more impressive than late PS1 N64 gen stuff, and the fact that the gamecube and Xbox hadn't been released is really irrellevant.