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

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SvennoJ said:

Well he's right. Current consoles can't do global illumination yet, Watch dogs had to downgrade the lighting, Witcher 3 couldn't even do it on pc, real time ray tracing is even further away. For that to work on 4K, 3 more generations seems about right.
CGI in movies still isn't there either though. Lighting and animation still gives it away.

I thought AC: Unity had global illumination? I think I read something about it around launch, but I'm not sure.