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curl-6 on 13 October 2020
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Hynad said:
curl-6 said:

Don't get me wrong, there was still definitely noticeable and significant improvement, I just wouldn't call anything on PS4 a "massive" improvement over Shadowfall which I think still looks great today despite being a launch title. (Same with Ryse on Xbone)

They still look good, thanks in huge part to their art design, but both are plagued with technical issues, low res assets/rendering, and the likes. Aspects that aren’t found or at least not nearly as prevalent in late gen releases.

Sure enough, we’re constantly going towards that fabled point of diminishing-return, but you and I are both among those who notice the finer aspects of graphics building blocks, so I am sure you’ll notice how big of a gap it is between the two generations when games that exploit all those extra ressources finally come out. 

I think with the PS4 part of it was that it was using tech that was basically proven and off the shelf, so while software techniques did evolve over the generation, it was quite easy to exploit the hardware's potential right from the start. PS5/XS are using tech that is comparatively newer and less proven, which does suggest we'll see big improvements over the early games shown so far.

The likes of Naughty Dog and Santa Monica reliably work miracles with the hardware they're given, and Ninja Theory managed to make Hellblade 1 look  amazing on current gen, so once those guys start putting out next gen exclusives we should see what the hardware can really do.