Graphics improving isn't really that big of a deal anymore. The graphics of this gen are already not the leap from PS3 to PS4, for example, that the leap from PS1 to PS2, or PS2 to PS3 was.
I agree with something a friend said years ago. "It's going to get to a point where gamers aren't going to be graphics whores anymore. Instead, you'll have physics whores."
And it's true. That is where the "leaps" are going to have to come from, for several reasons. There is only so much better than gaming graphics could get, to truly match Hollywood quality CGI. And even then, look at how expensive games with that kind of graphical approach cost now. In some ways it's breaking the industry, and has already killed off many companies who suffered, in some cases, just a couple of sales failures.
But more importantly, even with top of the line high end PC games, you still see the same shit. Super shiny, complex graphics, but SUPER shitty, glitchy, floaty, clunky, or in some other way lazy and unrealistic in-game physics. Not for EVERY game, there are some games with good physics. But I do not think there has yet been many 3D games with GREAT physics. We're talking real world, in-world game physics, that mimic objects breaking, super advanced water physics, realistic wind or other elemental physics, games where water and snow and sand and heat and cold etc. really take on more tangible properties, as far as impacting gameplay. Fighting and action games with SUPER solid, realistic body physics and hit-detection. In-world explosions that actually act like explosions, and affect the surrounding environment realistically like an explosion would, instead of just a pretty looking graphical representation of "BOOM".
Mind you, not every game HAS to have realistic physics. But it would help if more games at least had GOOD gameplay and in-world physics. That is where the leaps have to go next. Because we don't really need more bloom lighting and bump-mapping and fur shading. We need games that PLAY better.
