Now that next gen is here, diminishing returns is a real problem

[JoeTheBro]

Grandia said:

JoeTheBro said:
They say this every gen. Seriously I'll look through this site and find an example for you.

This is simply bullshit, I hear this dumb argument way too often. I remember the first screenshots of ps2 games in my  favorite PS1 gaming magazines and I was blown away of how awesome it looked, it was such a huge improvement right from the beginning and than the first xbox 360 graphics when I first saw Kameo with this bright beautiful environments, wather, greenery and all looked just amazing compared with xbox1 or ps2 games.

But the big difference now this time with the newest console generation in front is that we reached a level of detail with last generation almost photorealism,  graphics matched almost our real world and this is the point it is simply not possible to improve faces, environments,  weather effects and so on which look already almost like our real world. 

It was easy to improve ps1 grafics because they was so far away from looking like real but it is not easy to improve something which looks already damn close to the best possible the reality there is only room for minor improvements from now on.

Well it's pretty easy to prove you wrong with XBOX to 360 by doing simple forum searches. Tons of people are impressed sure, but lots aren't. Do you even remember all the XBOX 1.5 comments? Here's a thread about the original 360 reveal. Maybe it will enlighten you. http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=46948&page=5

Also I may need to remind you, but lots of people were blown away back in February and still are with exclusives. Are you not blown away by Ryse, Infamous, and the Order?

Plus I can only laugh when people say graphics can't get significantly better than this. That's just silly.