7th gen vs 8th gen

[Pemalite]

Cerebralbore101 said:

Pemalite said:

7th Gen by a long mile with the Xbox 360 definitely having the console edge in terms of game hours invested. (Although PC definitely trounces everything.)

8th gen just felt like a continuation of the 7th gen in every regard, games didn't really open up and become new experiences, they just took a step forwards to higher visual settings that I was already enjoying on PC anyway.

@Bolded This is why a lot of people don't consider PS3 or 360 to be retrogaming even though both systems are over ten years old. Games from the early 3D era feel markedly different from games of the 2D era. Games from the 6th gen feel markedly different from games of the 7th gen. But 8th gen? That's just 7th gen with extra graphical bells and whistles. 

I mean, the jump from 7th gen to 8th gen doesn't feel like there is allot of extra graphical bells and whistles... This is coming from a PC gamer.

During the 7th gen we had games like Crysis, Metro, Battlefield 3 on PC which offered Generation-8 levels of visual quality, years before the 8th gen consoles launched.

Especially Battlefield 3 which really pushed the deferred renderer angle and Tessellation, which made allot of jaws drop with the amazing (for the time) lighting quality.

Fast forward to the 9th gen and the feeling is more or less the same, Ray Tracing is great, but that's just a refinement bolted on top of current games.

7th gen, especially the PC ports really pushed expectations...