Well, today I was thinking on "How graphics will be in 10 years(2 gen. aprox)?", will they be photo-realistic?, Could they be improved?, Will they use holograms proyectors(like star wars :D)?, etc.

I was thinking this because looking at the 360/PS3 graphics, a real improve could be kind of difficult.

Will they focus more in controls like Nintendo's doing?.

Sorry for the english.

Any Opinions?.

see crysis.

 - iam all for the holograms thing!

Me too, I read an article a while back and James Cameron and George lucas met with Nintendo at e3 years ago to discuss a projection type hologram with interactive controls, what happened to it?? Never know, i remember the jaguar VR helmet and the sega vr helmet, seems like the good ideas revert back to pipe dreams.

One guideline I have been using for a while is that realtime graphics are approximately equal to GCI fimls from 8 to 12 years earlier; essentially, with 100 times the processing power and all sorts of hacks allow you to achieve similar results. This is no where near a perfect approximation, but I suspect that in 10 years you would have difficulty seperating a HD-DVD version of a CGI film (from today) and a game using the same characters.

I think that Crysis is gonna be one of the best looking games in the next 3-5 years. Games like Unreal will surpass it in level of detail on the models, and what little textures you would see, but it's not gonna pass Crysis, and it's massive enviroments. I think that the PS3/360 are gonna be limited 75% of the time by the deveopers investment. I think that, likely next generation, games could cost well into the 100+ million price range. (for the graphics your talking about HappySquirrel)

I think that UE3, and Crysis are the best their gonna look except for the freak, 100+ million price range game.

Why do I say that? Because the PS3 could in theory render 'Final Fantasy The Spirits Within' at about 5-20 FPS. Now that is really low, But the model 'Aki' Took one full time artist, over a year to model. So if you had say 100 baddies in the game total, that is around 20million in character art, consider that the terrain would need an equal ammount of love, add another 10-20million. Sound, give that side a fair 5million, Add in all the programmers, mappers, and stuff. Your looking at a 50+million dollar game, that isnt even that epic. That is more like a FPS ammount of baddies.  So like I say, I can see the games your talking about happysquirrel costing over 100million. I dont think games will ever sell well enough to turn a profit on that, so they will just continue to make games with Crysis style graphics.

I think the next step up from the PS3/360, will be very close to realism. The PS5 will be look real. (EG: the games would look quite a bit better than FF: Spirits Within)