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Sal.Paradise on 18 July 2012
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NintendoPie said:
Sal.Paradise said:

This is exactly what I would have said 10 years ago though. People forget about the march of progress so easily. I remember seeing old usenet posts about diminishing returns in the early Dreamcast era - how much further could we possibly improve graphics from upcoming 128 bit beasts! How can we expect developers to create games on PS2/GC/Xbox hardware, it's too powerful and complex!

It's the same spiel every generation, difference is now Nintendo have a weaker machine to sell, so they'll be saying it too, not just forum posters. 

But look at the graphics we have now, Sal. There seriously isn't a lot more we can do to them. 

You can get down to the nitty-gritty but in the eyes of the consumer there won't be much difference between this:

and what can already be seen in FFXIII/2.

Haha, there absolutely is. The universally positive response to the (visuals in) the Luminous tech demo goes to show that. Those are real time visuals that look like the CG we have today. I was just watching that CGI Castlevania Lords of Shadow 2 trailer...we're nowhere NEAR that yet. We still have so, so far to go on graphical and physics processing but everybody is so wowed by what we have now or in the near future that they can't get their heads around it.