Honestly this is kind of what I'm talking about with graphic fidelity hitting a ceiling. A decade of progress doesn't really look all that different so companies should really stop pushing for it so much.
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A lot of technology is meaningless to the layman anyway. The fake mirror effect in Mario 64 is equally effective as whatever technology powers today's fake mirrors to someone who doesn't know or care how they work.
sep 1, 2025, 6:35 pm • 3 0 • view
Nintendo's kind of the master of cheating graphics as Pikmin 4 looks pretty darn good but is powered by faking the lighting effects rather than having actual lighting chug what little processing power the console has
sep 1, 2025, 6:38 pm • 3 0 • view
It's kind of like the original Resident Evil, with its pre-rendered environments. You can make something look pretty stunning with weaker hardware if you just fake it. Who cares?
sep 1, 2025, 6:47 pm • 1 0 • view
The point is, is there really that big of a difference between a PS4 game and a PS5 game? Kinda? Does anyone really care?
sep 1, 2025, 6:52 pm • 1 0 • view