When did you first notice that grafix had diminishing returns?

[curl-6]

linkink said:

curl-6 said:

As Pemalite says, that it not how it works, at all.

The fact is, PS4 is a less complex system than the PS3 was. This is a good thing as it has made it easier for developers to create games for it. But it also means that the kind of progression seen from launch to end of life with the PS3 just cannot happen on PS4 because the system's power was fully accessible from day 1.

That's not to say there has been no progress; rendering techniques and development tools have improved over the years and this is reflected in the games look better over time. But because there are no large gains to be made from coming to grips with exotic hardware, it's just not possible for PS3's graphical progression to ever be matched on PS4.

PS3 of course is more complex system. That doesn't mean ps4 can't see similar gains, which it has, and  it's not some crazy over the top opinion. After all 360 did see similar gains if not more, it wasn't nearly as complex as ps3. Bigger gains will come from rendering techniques and development tools, i think 360,XB1 and ps4 have proven that. So to say ps4 graphical progression can't match ps3 because ps3 was more complex is 100% false.

The 360's hardware was not mature technology when it came out; stuff like unified lighting and shading and a multi-core, multi-threaded CPU were new to the console space. Not so with PS4 and Xbox One; they were based on off-the-shelf parts using nothing cutting edge or exotic, as a result they simply have less room for graphics to grow over time. Last gen you got big jumps on both the software and hardware utilization side. This gen you only get the software advances since the hardware is easy to fully harness from the start.