Will we still see major leaps in graphics in the gaming world?

[agorasim]

Or are we going to be stuck like this forever?

It’s been a long time since I’ve seen something that really surprised me. Like when we went from PlayStation 1 to PlayStation 2. That really was a huge leap, the difference in graphics was absolutely insane. It left me open-mouthed for days.

An example with Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune on PS3:

And now on PS4:

The difference is huge, right?

But nowadays, it feels like we’ve frozen in time. Even today you can still play most games decently with an RX 580. Every year there’s a new RTX. 30xx, 40xx, 50xx, but the technology is almost the same. It doesn’t change that much. This year they came up with putting AI into the effects, which was heavily criticized by gamers, but aside from that, it feels like that’s it. We’ve hit the limit of possible realism.

Just for the record, the jump from PS4 to PS5 was the smallest in history:

Kojima Productions: «A diferença entre PS4 e PS5 não é tão grande» - - Gamereactor

I hope I’m wrong.

[coisinho]

Nice. But the problem isn’t even having better hardware, the biggest problem is not having more devs who actually want to optimize their games. They just ship it the way it is and for them it’s fine. Back in the day, yeah, optimization work was a lot heavier because we had major hardware limitations. We had 256 MB of memory, a Pentium 4 and so on.