I read often in the internet how weak Ps4/xbox one are, they wont last long enough, are way to outdated and weak and the game have bad graphics.

Im an "older" gamer and now how games looked years before. In my opinion the quality of video game graphics is almost on stagnation. Modern games often didnt look much worse on low/medium settings compared to ultra settings. Graphics difference between 8th gen console and ultra pc is almost non existent. Even the gap in terms of graphics between 7th and 8th gen is not that huge.

If we compare and 8 year old game like crysis 1 with modern good/best looking games, the differences are not THAT big, but if we had compared crysis 2007 with an game from 1999, the difference would be huge. If we got back even 8 years more, the gap in terms of graphics gets bigger and bigger.

So my prediction is this will continue and the graphics quality wont improve anymore significant. Game in 2023 wont look much better as Battlefront does now, even on 10x as strong hardware. The gap will be even smaller as battlefront (2015) - crysis (2007)

Star Wars Battlefront (2015 graphics)

Crysis (2007 graphics; 8 years ago)

Half Life: Opposing Force (1999 Graphics; 8 Years back from Crysis)

Wolfenstein 3D (Graphics 1992; 7 Years back from Half Life: OF)

yes, we will

Another question would be "Will improving the graphics of games more and more be finantially sound in the future?".

I don't know if it'll be possible, but I'd like the graphics reaching the maximum. This way, developers can focus on new and exciting gameplay mechanics, once they've mastered the graphics.

People have been saying this for twenty years and it always moves forward, but it is moving slower. The future now lies with input and interaction/immersion.

FPS. The only reason they look that good is because they sacrifice FPS and larger worlds.

I promise you they will find a way to pump up the graphics even more so they can continue to keep the performance low enough to suck.

As soon as they realize that the games run at a stable 60fps they're probably gonna start supersampling and ray tracing to keep it down at a nice and cinematic 24fps.

We're in the era of diminished returns, graphical improvements from here on will look like baby steps compared to the leaps in the past.

I agree with what others have said about diminishing returns, but we're also reaching the point where games don't really need to look that much better. Developers are and to some extent already have been putting more and more focus on art style, on creativity and with the introduction of VR that will allow yet another avenue to you with. Besides, until 4K is popular 1080P can only allow so much detail.

graphics/IQ isn't an infinite property. As time goes on, it will get harder and harder to differentiate hardware generations. Eventually, we will reach a point where the only difference between PCs or consoles will be resolutions and frame rates. technically we are already seeing signs of these.

There is a reason why graphical comparisons are becoming more about numbers than images. and even when looking at images in most cases you would need to look really closely to tell the difference.

Here's one way to look at it. imagine it takes 2k polygons to make the perfect ball. And for argument sake say it takes 1 shader core to render it perfectly complete with perfect textures and attain photorealism. If you tried rendering the same perfect ball on hardware that could use 20k polygons instead and had over 1M shader cores at its disposal. the ball will still look like a ball. only difference is that u can have more of them.

So no. as the generations come by, we will see smaller and smaller obvious graphical leaps.