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SvennoJ on 07 September 2014
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Dr.Henry_Killinger said:
SvennoJ said:
Dr.Henry_Killinger said:
Good games take longer times, short generations = less good games.
Its that simple.

Shorter, 5 - 6 years is fine between generations. 4K is just starting now, by 2019 4K VR should be possible and sub 1080p upscaled to 4K won't impress anyone.

Good games are sooner hindered by old tech. As long as the next gen doesn't go to complicated exotic hardware it will only make development easier.

4k isn't going to improve game play much in the way of anything. Especially while, we currently don't have much AA developers, the only people who even feasible utilize 4k properly are AAA, who probably won't anytime soon, because budgets are bloated as it is. Advances in technology are pretty much irrelevant if they aren't affordable which takes much longer than just developing the hardware. 

Not to mention, 4K resolution TVs are not widespread.

5-6 years is fine if you want to make a new tech demo to impress people, but fidelity is only a single aspect of what it takes to make a game.

I don't believe there will be any games actually running in 4K on console in 2019. If there are they it will be like 1080p games last gen. Yet they will have 4K upscaling, and 1080p to 1440p games. Sub 1080p and no support for 4K output (lacking HDMI 2.0) will start to hurt in 5 years. Plus VR could really use some more powerful hardware, nothing to do with game budget. For now VR games will have to be scaled down to provide the minimum required 1080p60 x2 output.

Developers seem to target their games for the next gen anyway the way they end up running. Hence all the remasters now, they look perfectly fine running on new hardware.