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Norion said:
For the next generation AI will need to do a lot of heavy lifting or it'll be even worse since unlike the PS4 and Xbox One the CPU in the PS5 and Xbox Series aren't pathetic and they both have SSDs so the storage situation has already gotten good. I'm sure Sony will push PSSR 2.0 hard since it'll probably come with frame generation which will let a lot more games have 60fps and even 120fps modes on the PS6 but that by itself wouldn't constitute a big generational leap. How big it is will largely come down to just how much AI advances in the next four years. |
The problem is going to be "the graphics are even prettier" means less and less when the point you're already at is already pretty good.
Case in point ... how many people are super excited for 8K televisions? Not many. Why, because 4K is already more than good enough for most people, a lot of people today still watch a lot of their programming/movies at a mere 1080p or less (cable TV).
The other problem is going to be that most developers and publishers are already at their breaking point budget wise now. You ask them to double their budgets again from where they are today and it will break a lot of publishers, even Sony we can see from their internal leaked docs is already extremely worried about the budgets for games like Spider-Man 2. So what's going to happen when you need to double/triple that budget to get a large leap forward from Spider-Man 2/3 on PS6? It isn't going to be feasible.
Honestly I think if you showed even a lay person a video game that had photorealistic graphics today, a lot of people wouldn't care much. Like if you went from this:
To literal photorealism (or close enough), I mean ok. Does it make the game that much better? How many people outside of Digital Foundry enthusiast types really care? How much would that cost to get there? Triple the amount? Are you selling 3x the copies? This already looks pretty good, even relative to real life.
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