What real 'next gen' is there actually in the Wii U...?!

[Aielyn]

pachoo5 said:

Nem said:
If you want a glimpse at next gen look at star wars 1313. The Wii U isnt that far away. There not gonna be a huge leap in graphics you can notice clearly. Its more animations.

Completely wrong. Take a look at Ubisoft's next gen engine and tell me you don't see a gigantic leap in graphics.  The next gen will have an enormous leap in graphics.  The next Playstation and Xbox will be able to handle Ubisoft's engine, but the Wii U can't. It is too underpowered. Same story with the Unreal 4 engine.

I don't see a gigantic leap in graphics. All of the "next-gen" engines are subtle improvements only, and everything still looks plastic.

Until they're able to convincingly get past the uncanny valley, this will be the problem with all of the engines. In the meantime, it's just more lighting effects, a bump up in number of polygons that it can push, better draw distance, etc. Nothing like, for instance, the jump from N64 to Gamecube, or the jump from Xbox to Xbox 360, where dramatic refinements took the graphics from blocky to organic in shape (over the two generations). The shaping is already quite organic, it's all just subtleties, now, until they can overcome the uncanny valley.

By the time they convincingly overcome the uncanny valley, they'll be using point-based models, anyway. And such engines are already in development.