No. They are fine for the most part. It's likely a placebo affect for ya. If textures are terrible, then possibly, but since so many use military type textures and different shades of browns and greys, nope.

I wasn't calling the WiiU a 7th gen system, just its IQ standards. As you said, generations are defined by release order, not power.

I do personally consider the WiiU's hardware deserving of the "8th gen" title though (even if only just). Raw power wise it may be closer to the PS3 and 360 than the X1 (and more so the PS4), but it's still capable of utilizing many modern features than the PS3 and 360 lack.

No, they look the same to me.

I think the only generation that I can no longer stand to play is the 5th generation. Playing Goldeneye nearly made me puke!

It's not acceptable but it's not "blurry and horrible" now ...

Eh speak for yourself, revisting even "good" looking Wii games on Wii U like Mario Galaxy 2 is like stepping into a ice cold shower. It takes a moment to readjust to the really sh*tty 480p resolution. 

Nintendo's games and the art that their artists work hard on look sooooooo much better in HD on the Wii U. 

It's like a dirt stained windshield versus a crystal clear one. The sunset outside may be the same, but it'll look far better through the clean windsheild.  

There's nothing about the Wii-era of visuals that I miss, nothing. Nintendo is far better off in that respect in HD, the fact that we had to wait six years to get there is the only shame. 

I'll just pretend this thread never existed :(

So what side are you on? The last-gen looks blurry or the last-gen looks great side?

no i still feel that way with the new gen

BFHL

No more than I did back in 2008 when I started playing most of my multiplatform games on PC.

It was actually one of the selling points of the 8th gen that I could get the same 1920x1080 native render sharpness out of *most* games on console that made me transition back to console/PS4 for the added simplicity.

I'm still quite amazed and impressed that developers were able to do as much as they did with 7th gen hardware given the memory constraints. 256MB VRAM for the PS3 and 512MB shared for the XB360 was not much better.

The main saving grace for 1280x720 res on 7th gen consoles is that players generally sit further back when playing on consoles whereas on PC, your face is generally 1-2" away at most, making every bit of sharpness very apparent.

I tend to play standing in front of the HDTV, so the difference between 1080p and 720p is pretty obvious.