Licence on 30 October 2013
| HoloDust said: Threads about diminishing returns always put a hurt to my face from so many facepalms I perform on myself... |
I really have to wonder what a "facepalm" is in the context of "performing it on yourself" :)
But as for diminishing returns - I think you misunderstand the term. It simply means that, beyond a point, the hardware cost of achieving a specific quality of graphics is more than the value of that graphic to consumers. It does not mean that the quality of the graphics is unattainable, or undesirable, but simply that you need so much $$$ to get to it, that most people are not willing to pay for it.
The PS4 is let's say 10 times more powerful than the PS3, but are the games going to be 10 times better looking? For Sony to produce a console with 10 times better graphics than the PS3, it would have to produce a very expensive console indeed.
