When did graphics start having diminishing returns for you?

[Acevil]

CGI-Quality said:

Acevil said:

Well diminishing returns means that the leaps and beyonds is getting smaller to grasp. It is not that cap of capability. 

You can still greatly improve it, but the leap between Generation 6 and 7 from console stand point was huge, same with generations before it. Generation 7 and 8 is not as much, and it might because the gap between PC gaming and consoles has lessened (PC gamers will hate me for saying that). 

I know very well what it means, and that is why I said what I said. We're nowehere near it. People are just feeling less impressed thanks to a stop-gap generation that is the current one.

I've said it before - it's the hardware that's to blame, not graphics reaching a point that the showcase leap is shrinking. Not yet, anyway.

Well if you put years on a line below, I feel we might have, but again how do you quantify graphics, because lets be honest, diminishing returns is not actually subjective concept, it is something that is actually measured, one can act like it is, but is not. 8-bit to 16-bit is quanitfiable.

Same with 16-bit to 32-bit, etc. However Generation 5-6-7-8 the defination of how to quantifyit is not as simple. 

I do agree that it is hardware to blame, and it is sadly dragging down PC as well, PC use to be light years ahead, almost a whole generation ahead.