Biggest step up in quality from one system to its successor

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BraLoD said:
PS2 to PS3.
The first time I touched The Last of Us on PS3 was like it was a new gen during the current gen.
So the PS3 was like two gens above the PS2.

True, and unfortunate too few developers could rise to that level. Maybe the dev tools weren't fully optimized from beginning, but the general concept of Cell of multi-processing/threading was widely recognized as way forward in computing. It just was harder, and programmers didn't like doing hard stuff. What they did with that hardware shows it's potential even if 3rd party didn't rise to the same bar. More generally I think it is good example of step change in games in way that really hasn't been replicated since, and the dedication to premium quality with Blu-Ray drive clearly qualifies for this thread. I can't really get behind the Nintendo generations that were really just upgrades of previous model (Wii architecture), that's not really more significant than "mid-gen upgrade" except it was marketted as new gen.