Is Nintendo always going to be behind Microsoft and Sony in graphics?

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Griffin said:

superchunk said:

Visual differentiation is in the past. We won't be able tell much of any difference anymore. Now its up to the system specific uniqueness and 1st party games.

How can you even suggest this, computers will keep getting more powerful and games will continually look better.  In 20years you will look back at top of the line PC games now and laugh at how shit they are.  Look at games like GT5 photomode, one day cars in GTA will look like that.   Look at top of the line CG now, one day our games will look like that and it won't be for a long time.  Game graphics have just touched the surface of what can be done.

I think while there is room for progression, to progress now compared to a few generations ago you'll have to have exponentially more powerful hardware for a realistic cost to make a similar difference. That means while software has room for progression, the required hardware isn't increasing for a reasonable price fast enough to keep up. So any differences there will be between individual systems of a generation that follow a similar price-point will be minute, while comparing a console with that of many previous generations will show an impressive difference. Unless there is a new insight in how computers are made, the ability to successfully improve graphics will increasingly become more difficult.