By using this site, you agree to our Privacy Policy and our Terms of Use. Close
Norion on 11 July 2023
Edit Thread
PAOerfulone said:

After a while, there's really not much more in terms of power and graphics that consoles can go.

3 years in and the main PS5 game I'm looking forward to - Spider-Man 2, as awesome as it looks, looks like it could still be a PS4 title.

We've reached the point where any graphical improvements are so miniscule or barely noticeable that you could put Spider-Man 2 and Spider-Man PS4 side by side and a casual gamer or random person on the street wouldn't be able to tell the difference.
From this point on, each new generation of consoles should be more focused on improving the OTHER aspects of the system: loading times, online infrastructure, controller battery life (and system battery life in the Switch's case), storage space, processing, etc.

Look at the Matrix Awakens and the trailer for Unrecord. Games this generation that'll be a leap over gen 8 games in terms of visuals will come, game development just takes longer now. Improving other aspects should get more focus going forward yeah but we're still at least 10-15 years away from there not being much more to go in terms of graphics.