Where's the Generation gap?

[chalksalad]

Yakuzaice said:

chalksalad said:

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.

Very few games are 1080p on consoles.  Not to mention the general lack of AA, poor frame rates, and tearing.  There are a lot of improvements in image quality that could happen.  Plus there are always going to be new things they can do such as tesselation.

Yes but isn't this something that can be done in this generation as developers better understand the hardware and push it to it's limits?