Yeah I've not much hopes for that happening next gen either.

I would really love to see more advanced AI though, but I don't see that happening either.

Would be nice to see more AA options like MFAA and TXAA though. WE already have access to those via Nvidia for some games, but I'd love to see Nvidia making rounds to include that in a lot more games going forward, as well as Ansel support and VXAO for improved shadows. 

If you're expecting PC-like options, that kind of defeats the whole purpose of consoles which are meant to be more uniform than the vast array of PC builds there are that need to accommodated. 

The uniformity of consoles should actually make it a lot easier to implement options. I fail to see how presenting options goes against consoles being simple.

Well, if you're just talking about simple options then, there are already games that allow that on consoles.

If Sony and Microsoft can't make 60FPS standard, they both need to just quit and go sell shoes instead. Outside of that, I don't care about anything else graphically. AI, absolutely but graphics? Frames per second matters far more.

I don't have the knowledge to understand the details and I don't know what such things as AA mean.

Having said that, I'd like to see dynamic lightning/shadow improving. As others have mentioned, while textures have improved a lot this generation to the point that some textures are almost perfectly realistic, shadows in most games are far from looking real.

I'll try to remember to keep checking for this and the next thread...
I miss the thread of the perma banned moderator that was doing a step by step game creation process.

Does VR count as a graphical technique? If it does, then that!

I don't want any options in game, I just want it to run smooth with zero setup. Console wide screen calibration should be enough. Next gen needs to add console wide HDR calibration as well.

Personally I'm not a fan of motion blur or depth of field blur or heavy AA blur or upscaling blur. The less blur the better. What I'm mostly looking forward to is improved lighting. That's where the differences are most noticeable now between gens. More dynamic lighting, more realistic shadows and reflections. I'll take a grainy low res ray traced 30 fps game over a 4K60 pre baked one. Perhaps ray tracing is more suited to VR with the low res screens, yet we'll need some very clever fps upscaling for that. Would it be possible to run lighting at 30fps, rendering geometry at 60 fps and reprojecting it all to 120fps?

Anisotropic filtering. I don't think current gen game use this (if they do, is a low one). From my understanding, current-gen games use trilinear filtering, right? I'm not a computer graphics savvy, so correct me if I'm wrong. I noticed this for the first time on GTA 5 (PS4). There's a small radius around the player that looks fine but outside of that is a little blurry.

60 fps should be the standard, or at least give us an option between performance and graphics.

I agree with SvennoJ on improvements with lightning. A good lightning implementation can make a huge difference on how it looks.

Last gen I didn't pay any attention to these kind of details but after watching so many DF comparison videos, it's hard not to pay attention now.

I think that's about right.  That's when they finally got cameras to not suck and impede game play (most of the time).  

But, onto the new OP - I care about frame rate.  I'm not going to say that 60fps should be standard, as it may not be possible for some games.  But, I prefer that, in terms of graphics (I'm using the word loosely here), I hope that the focus moves away from resolution (it is good enough for the next decade), in favor of higher frame rate.  The difference in feel is huge.  

HDR is also very important.  But, I think that's been pretty well handled at this point.  I suppose devs could make better use of it sometimes, so I hope that happens as well.