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Norion on 12 March 2024
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curl-6 said:
Norion said:

This is true though it is a big issue for AAA game makers since many consumers expect the graphics of those to keep improving at a good pace and if progress there suddenly significantly slows many people will feel disappointed. Like if FF17 barely looks any better than FF16 then that would negatively impact its sales. A company like Square is in a really tough position with this since their big games are expected to have high production values and they're not huge sellers but if they pull back on that sales will decline.

The pace of graphical progress is kinda unavoidably slowing down anyway though due to a combination of diminishing returns and the rising costs of pushing the cutting edge. FF7 Rebirth doesn't look massively better than its predecessor on PS4 despite being ostensibly a generation above.

We're gonna have to get used to graphical improvement slowing down whether we like it or not.

It'll happen eventually yeah though currently the question some companies are facing is if they should keep increasing costs to satisfy expectations but have insane budgets or pull back on that but experience a decline in sales. It'll get a lot better when it gets to the point when it becomes not that expensive to have photorealistic graphics but my guess is that's 10-20 years or so away.