Ex-Naughty Dog Dev Explains Why PS4/XB1 Will Never Achieve CGI Visuals, 4K Will Take Two Generations

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Guitarguy said:

hunter_alien said:

No... it was pretty much the same when the change from 2D to 3D occured and pretty much in every generation that managed to achieve a large graphical leap. The gaming scene is changing but none of its main branches is imploding for a good while.

I can understand the massive jump from 2D to 3D(ie sprites to polgons, SNES to N64, MegaDrive to Saturn etc) and also from standard definition to high definition(PS2 to PS3, Xbox OG to 360) but from 7th genetation to 8th there was no real colossal advancement like those.

Well at the same time development costs also didn't increase that much from 7th to 8th gen. A few percent more, but not nearly as big as from the 6th to 7th gen where budgets were many many times higher.