The sound made in games are still very much held back by either the sound chip and system or simply because there is not enough tools presented in the game engines or the hardware itself to make it more realistic, to make it seems that something is just comming out of the corner, that you can, just by listening, tell the distance betwenn you and said creature. Those small additions to these home consoles arsenals is what will make them stand above the competition.

   Imagine yourself playing the new Resident Evil while you are in a big scary and dark mansion, with all lights off in the halway that you are in, only with the moonlight comming off the windows as your only source of illumination. But as you walk down the corridor, a cloud passes by in front of the moon, robbing you of it's light, and making everything pitch black. Moments later, you hear footsteps comming on your direction. You know that, if you don't act now, it will be too late by the time the cloud has completed its trajectory and return to you what was once yours. As you close your eyes, you can hear the sound reviberating through the dark, moisty walls of the corridor you stand in. Using your ears as your guide, you pinpoint the direction of the sound and determine that it is comming from just up ahead, right after the corridor makes a turn to the right. You ready your weapon, and wait for the mysterious entity to come within your line of fire, depending on your hearing to know when to open fire and fight for your life. This new, exciting situation was brought up not because of the new powerful hardware and it's new graphical capabilities, but because of how it allows developers to force you to use your other senses into the game design itself.

Squint the notice the difference eh?

Inaba of Platinum games is correct. The switch is the only thing that really felt new and different and exciting. Graphics just don't feel like that big of a difference anymore. Not like the jump from 2D to 3D. https://www.videogameschronicle.com/features/interviews/interview-platinumgames-on-next-gen-and-its-next-steps/amp/?__twitter_impression=true

Must be the reason I was never impressed by Platinum Games graphics, guess they stopped improving during PS2 era.

heh. You don't remember what PS2 looked like then. But they do use an in house engine. Astral Chain looked great tho but the main thing is they play amazingly. They offer experiences no one else can deliver.

What they making their own engine have to do with their games looking outdated on the graphical part? Sure when you do that type of game even the jump from PS3 to PS5 wouldn't look much impressive.

k keep thinking that if you wish. IDGAF