TWRoO on 10 March 2010
early PS2 games looked horrible, some were worse than N64 games. some late PS2 games look (even technically) better than some early X360 games. The same happens between every generation.... if you showed me some late NES games and early SNES game images I bet I would have trouble telling which is which without counting how many colours there are or something.
The only really obvious gap is the jump to 3D (although some SNES generation games had psuedo 3D) but that wasn't necessarily better looking games, just incredibly different.
