When did you first notice that grafix had diminishing returns?

[curl-6]

linkink said:

curl-6 said:

Let's take 1886 as an example though; that launched when the PS4 was just over one year old, yet it is still cited as one of the best looking games on the system. To me that shows that progress hasn't been as drastic as last generation, where games from year 1-2 were left far behind.

If you are just looking at graphics, then yea, but it doesn't work like that. We have a huge complex open world games like Red dead 2 doing doing so much more, and exceeding those graphics, we have 60fps shooter exceeding those graphics, we finally have a action-adventure hack and slash that looks nextgen a  genre that hasn't evolved much graphically since Ninja gaiden on xbox.  Order 1886 is a very limited linear game, that also uses black borders to help it keep it's IQ.

I'm still not seeing this dramatic progress. Even the best looking early PS3 games were left looking incredibly dated by the time the system was this old, yet with PS4 its best looking early games like Killzone and 1886 are still not that far behind games coming out in Year 5/6.

PS4 was built with mature technology and was very easy to develop for and straightforward to fully harness, hence it didn't take developers years to come to grips with it like the PS3 with its exotic Cell processor.

The PS3's lifespan took it from this:

To this:

PS4 is never going to have a leap that big, it simply can't because its hardware was easy to exploit from day 1.

Last edited by curl-6 - on 07 May 2019