Why can't devs deliver a "Next gen" graphics moment with PS5/XSX?

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curl-6 said:

LegitHyperbole said:

Well the cut back. Stellar Blade aimed perfectly for what it wanted and hit the mark, same with Alan Wake 2 and a few others. It shouldn't be that hard to aim for something of quality. Sekiro still looks great mostly cause the image quality is so good. Elden Rings PS4 release looks great at 60. Many games from last gen were 60 and the image quality was fine and file sizes were for the most part manageable. Stop chasing small details that no one will notice over holding the game together at the seams and destroying it's playability. Black Myth feels like a game you have to put on low setting cause your PC is getting old, it's atrocious and often sickening to look at. 

Cutting back and making less extravagant games like Stellar Blade is the smart play, yeah.

Unfortunately, it seems much of the Western AAA sphere would rather run their business into the ground than scale back their games, and the result is the mass layoffs we're seeing, as well as games releasing in a technically poor state because they're either poorly optimized, push the hardware too hard, or both.

If Ubisoft goes in the ground the suits will have to take a look, dissect it and figure out exactly what you said. It'll take a massive disaster or serious financial woes for themselves to get them to pay attention to what we are experiencing right now with their games. I think the turning point will come soon enough cause it feels like the industry is at breaking point and casuals are only putting their money it the most highly aggregated games while skipping and attacking anything that releases with a mild touch of "DEI" cause they subconsciously want to save the money in their wallets cause of the cost of living around the world. Reality hopefully will just bite them into repositioning and not tare down everything completely.

Unfortunately, this means that they may scale back on things that actually matter too like destructible environments and little details but I suppose the latter comes from TLC when a dev team are enjoying their work.