| DonFerrari said: Sony themselves said that for PS1, 2 and 3 they choose a good architecture but not easy to develop or max out just to ensure the games would improve during the gen and people would be eager for the next game. Sure that even with PS4 being a lot easier to dev for we still got improvements during the gen. |
True, games always get better with new techniques over time. The difference was, on ps2 you ended at higher resolutions 1080i in GT4 (480x540 to be precise) while nowadays average resolution (and stability) goes down towards the end of the generation. First gen that 'needed' mid gen refreshes to keep the graphics hype going.
Next gen will be more traditional again while devs explore how to get the most out of the vast increase in I/O speed and 3D audio.
