According to Wikipedia we are now enjoing the 7th Generation of Console Gaming. Anyone who spend time playing games of the past can certainly remember the vast improvements in visual performance that each new console would bring.
If we put together screenshots of games from the VCS, NES, SNES, PS1, N64, PS2 it will be pretty obvious which is which. Even machines from the same generation would produce different images than their competitors with the NES and the SMS or the SNES and the GEN being completely different beasts.
The lines started to blur during the last generation and if the screenshots didn't include Mario, Kratos or Master Chief, being able to identify the hardware behind the image would be quite challenging (at least for still images).
It seems to me that the gap between the console generations is growing so small that there will be little to differentiate the current from the next gen.
I can help but wonder what the next Gen of consoles will have to offer (in terms of graphics) to make it stand out from the impressive visual offerings we currently enjoy. I mean resolution will not rise anytime soon (1080 will be the household standard for the next decades) and adding a few million polgons to the mix is not anything mindblowing.
If I'm right and MS and SONY can't come up with any impressive hardware soon, coupled with the cost of development of the current generation and the continuing investement for online infrastructure I have a feeling that this cycle will definetely last longer than any of the previous ones.
Your thoughts...?
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