If a "next gen" game is also on ps3/x360 (ala Destiny) Is it really Next Gen?

[Zekkyou]

160rmf said:

Zekkyou said:
No it's not next gen, it's cross gen (we already have a name for it!). In my mind they're essentially gen 7.5 titles.

Destiny is still a great looking game, and one of the largest cross gen differences we've seen, but ultimately it's still had to confine itself to what can be linearly scaled down to the previous gen. As you said, the PS3 version is functionally identical.

For some reason that doesn't stop people trying to use cross gen titles as proof of the "small gen jump". They should really see how flawed that argument is when the jump between AC4 to ACU or Ghost to AW is larger than the difference between the cross gen versions of the original title

advance warfare is cross gen

I never said it wasn't :p I was pointing out the huge visual jumps we've already been seeing in the next gen. Hence why using current cross gen titles as a reference for the capabilities of the 8th gen systems doesn't make much sense.

AW still isn't exactly the best looking game ever, but next gen platforms being the lead has done wonders for it. It will still be relatively close to the 7th gen, but a bigger jump than we saw with Ghosts.

Then you have ACU which looks downright amazing. A tad unstable at present (understandably, given how many character models they're trying to use simultaneously), but still amazing.