The different approaches to Next Generation gaming

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hinch said:

gergroy said:

Not sure how that isn’t fair... it’s pretty much the most fair way to do it.

Also, with horizon almost 2 years away... it seems silly to compare it to anything honestly, as what was shown will almost certainly be different in the end.  Also your pictures aren’t even the same size for a fair comparison... undoubtedly horizon 2 will look better, but in my opinion the differences don’t seem as big this generation as compared to previous.  Part of the problem with that is the mid gen upgrades that boosted performances...

Nah we can do better..

You can't pit a stylized platformer in its first year against a more realistically designed game thats the end of its long life cycle. And make a fair comparison.. that would be like comparing modern art to classic art. Totally different art direction for one thing.

Think its PS4 capture (OG) 1080P vs 4K. But yeah, honestly wait a couple of years. Look at what devs achieved with 1.84TF with TLOU 2, UC4, GoT, GoW etc. Now imagine what they can do with that extra GPU power, and gargantuan leap in CPU performance.

HZ2 was just a drop in the ocean compared to what things are to come. I can't even fathom GTA 6 graphics.

You seem to be missing the point of the comparison.

The point is not to assess exactly how much better the system will be in the end, it's to assess how big the leap will be on launch day, and whether that leap justifies being an early adopter. For that it makes sense to compare the best of what's available now vs the best of what will be available at launch.