The inflection point for diminishing returns appears to be the PS3/360 generation

[endimion]

theprof00 said:

endimion said:

exactly my point I was making the other day... about graphic difference this gen.... if we expect both console to improve graphically over the course of this gen (which should happen on both side...) I'm pretty sure even if the technical gap widdens between PS4 and XBO it will be less and less noticeable to the human eye especially the untrained one not activelly looking for the differences in quality....

now that being said we have also to consider people didin't upgrade their TVs for this gen like they probably did with last gen.... and probably won't do it  this gen....

but next gen if they output in 4k natively and OLED 80" 4K display become more accessible and decrease at a steady pace over the course of the PS5 and XBOX ULTIMATE :P we could see a new jump...

That's kind of a hard point to make.

Differences won't matter this gen, but they will next gen?

Diminishing returns would say the opposite.

no it's not that they don't matter... they will be very real and any benchmark will show them and any person activelly looking for the differences will see it.... there is no doubt about that...

what I'm saying is with the quality we will reach on both consoles and with the set up most people have (which more than likely will stay the same as last gen or in the same category)  it won't be as noticeable or at least become less and less noticeable

on the other hand if next gens pushes 4K graphics and prices of large 4k displays become accessible to more people you will see another jump since we are changing technology or at least we are changing the base line...