Big part of that was everyone adjusting to HD development.

SD -> HD was a huge jump

Damn it! I wanted to say "and let the down-playing by Nintendo fans begin." I hate being late to threads like this, you miss some great opportunities.

Also, the PC response, most people have not been playing at the level of the XO/PS4 on their home computers.  Not even close, in fact.  The majority of PC gamers have certainly not been ahead of that curve for years.

Nobody said, "most people" but anybody with mid-end PC made after 2010 can experience this: 

"There's no aliasing, despite the huge number of polygons and high level of texture. There is no clipping anymore despite the vast level. The lightning effects are AMAZING." - OP

We always have the naysayers and PC elitists spount the same thing every generation of consoles and it always turns out the same way. Console titles look barely different from X year titles on PC or hardly a leap on current gen.. "Xbox 1.5!" they say. "PS3.5!" Then we have the Nintendo users go to extrodinary lengths to prove they don't care about graphics.. by getting involved in more graphics comparison talk.

And when the dust settles after the fanboy wars at launch, a few years in when we get great looking games on them. We STILL get well, hur durrr PC iz da best derp welcome to 2013 comments. Its grating. The fact that you have to spend mulitiple times more in those years to get something remotely close in performance doesn't mean anything at all. Nope.

PS. I also like gaming on PC.

I cant speak for KZSF just yet but Ryse is the best looking game I've played including PC. Well maybe not better than Far Cry 3, not sure yet. Any ways it surpasses GoW and TLoU by a pretty long shot. THough they both look good being on a 7 year old console :)

Though I cant say the same thuing about gameplay.  Both GoW and TLoU was a better overall game.

this

There are laptops that can run games like Battlefield 4 and Crysis 3 at highest settings and 1080p.

Those games look at par if not better than Killzone Shadowfall.

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Yeah, it made me laugh too. ^^ 

Internet tearing a smile from me is rare, congratulation.

It's only in response to console elitists, you know, those who argue about some marginal difference between the consoles as if it really mattered. *Looks at countless XB360 vs. PS3 performance, resolution, and texture quality threads. ;) Anyway, it's inaccurate to say that this happened every generation, because there was a time when consoles were always BETTER than PC's upon their release (pre-6th generation.) During the 6th generation PC games were comparable at the launch of the consoles. At the advent of the 7th generation; however, the PC had Crysis, and the consoles had nothing comparable. The only thing holding PC gaming back is not technology, but the type of games that demand graphical prowess have transitioned to consoles as their main developing platforms. With the next generation of consoles, so will we see advancements in the technical feats of PC Gaming.