Famitsu Sales: Week 27, 2023 (Jun 26 - Jul 02)

[Norion]

Soundwave said:

Norion said:

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.

Matrix Awakens is also a DEMO and not a full game for a reason but even that, once the "game" part of the demo (and not the scripted/fixed camera angle scenes) starts ... I mean it looks like a fairly normal video game. 

The fact is not many devs want to or even can afford to make a full game that looks like that. 

Well yeah I said game development takes longer now. Taking into account it's from 2021 I think it looks clearly better than everything pre-2022. UE5 will help devs a lot with making high fidelity games though the real fun will be when true photorealism becomes easy enough for even indie teams to tap into. Another example is the recent path tracing update for Cyberpunk, path tracing becoming standard will be huge for improving visuals.