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Captain_Tom on 11 September 2013
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CGI-Quality said:
cheesecake said:
I've said it before and I'll say it again. Development costs are getting too high, there's a reason that PC games don't look a lot better than Console games despite having extremely more powerful hardware. The soonest I could see the AAA industry crashing is 2015.

Depends on the game, actually. Metro: Last Light, Crysis 3, Arma III (exclusive) - PC games that walk all over anything on console (technically speaking). They don't even have that high of budgets (well, Metro and Arma don't), but can still achieve considerably better visuals than home consoles can. 

That said, a dev like Naughty Dog has figured it out. Their games are hardly pushing any records financially, but always set new benchmarks visually.

Correct!  Metro: LL and even BF3 look leaps and bounds better than anything on consoles.  In fact I would be willing to bet that BF3 maxed out looks better than BF4 on PS4.  

The only next gen game that has floored me in graphics is Killzone: Shadow Fall.  You have to download the 1080p footage to see it (Not youtube people!), but the lighting and particle effects are absurdly beautiful...