After watching this video (link below) from reviewtechusa i am curious to see what you guys think. Personally i could wait a couple more generations because i am quite happy with how todays graphics look on my xbox one. However this topic will be a big deal for the so called "graphic whores". What do you think? When will we see photo realistic or CGI quality visuals rendered in native 2160p on a home console? Of course this is completely dependant on wether or not home console will exist in the future.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_lPRcTVhS0M

I'm not sure consoles will exist in the same way they do today by the time they hit photo-realistic visuals. We're still a long way off as it is. Possibly Gen 10 or 11

Photo realism is ridiculously far off in the future and also really not a goal that I personally care too much about.

"After watching this video from reviewtechusa" - That's always the best way to start a thread :p

I really really doubt that next gen will be able to play AAA games at 4k60.

A reallyyyyyyy long time from now. Who knows, maybe with streaming, we might be able to do it

Very hard to tell. Not before 2030 probably. I hope console are still around by then.

I think the best point is brought up at the end of the video, it's ridiculously expensive to make a game with that kind of visual fidelity - there are like 2 franchise that could get away with that kind of investment, Fifa and GTA.

Not anytime soon, that's for darn sure.

It might even take us a couple decades.

It could be next gen.
All you need is 4K VR glasses with pupil tracking. Then you can reduce the render load to 5% of the full image.

Depending on what you render, today comes very close already.
http://gematsu.com/2012/03/kojima-productions-fox-engine-vs-reality
And the Luminous engine
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXSUHD8R6po

Add a bunch of dof effects, choose the lighting carefully and it's not too difficult anymore to appear photo realistic.

Full open world 2160p60, real time ray-traced, 3 more gens at least.

Thank you for stating in the OP that it was a reviewtechusa vid, saves me giving him a view.

But I'd guess next Gen for 4k, would stand to reason.