Alan Wake does, just not on PS5... yet.Nothing looks next gen this year.
Alan Wake does, just not on PS5... yet.Nothing looks next gen this year.
Gameplay hasn't really evolved in years and it doesn't seem like it will anytime soon. The only hope I have for a true evolution in gameplay is when VR will truly take off. For the next few years, we'll just be playing better looking games at higher resolutions and frame rates.So you guy's entire idea of "next gen" experience is graphics?
Define next gen.Nothing looks next gen this year.
Gameplay hasn't really evolved in years and it doesn't seem like it will anytime soon. The only hope I have for a true evolution in gameplay is when VR will truly take off. For the next few years, we'll just be playing better looking games at higher resolutions and frame rates.
- Alan Wake is presumably the first game in the west that uses Mesh Shaders (first one is some Chinese MMO called Justice) and barely works on older GPUs. It's completely broken on Pascal and isn't very playable on RDNA1 either.
It's only now that I'm starting to feel that the last-gen consoles and old PCs are really starting to become outdated.
- Alan Wake is presumably the first game in the west that uses Mesh Shaders (first one is some Chinese MMO called Justice) and barely works on older GPUs. It's completely broken on Pascal and isn't very playable on RDNA1 either.
- The Phantom Liberty expansion of Cyberpunk abandoned the last-gen consoles and playing it now, I understand why. The sheer scale and number of elements on screen would demolish their already frail frame rates. Kudos to CDPR for that.
- Playstation no longer releases AAA titles for the PS4. The last one was GOWR in November 2022. Since then, the focus has entirely shifted to next-gen with major titles such as FF XVI and Spider-Man 2.
- Xbox no longer releases AAA titles for the Xbox One either. All AAA games in 2023 have been Series X/PC-only.
- DirectStorage is seeing a slow but verifiable adoption with Forspoken pioneering its usage in January 2023 and Rift Apart following in May.
- Path tracing on PC has also come to a few select titles such as Alan Wake 2, Cyberpunk 2077, Portal 2
- The adoption of UE5 (lol) along with its new features such as Nanite and Lumen.
- SSDs are increasingly becoming highly recommended, if not mandatory in the latest games.
So, has the transition period finally ended? I think that when we'll do a retrospective a few years from now, 2023 will be considered the year where next-gen started and 2024 when it really took off. I'd say Late 2014 to Late 2020 was last-gen. Early 2021 to Early 2023 was cross-gen. Mid 2023 to now is next-gen. Of course, this means that the concept of "generation" is even more nebulous, seeing that the PS4 was released in November 2013 and in 2023 is still somewhat supported. I can easily the PS5 being supported well into 2032 and the transition period getting even longer with the PS6.
Define next gen.
Probably not.That's a waste of two years then. We're two years behind with these consoles in terms of how powerful they could be. If Sony and MS had waited until 2023 to launch ps5/sx we would've actually had a generation that can handle REAL ray tracing, dynamic gi, and next gen geometry all at the same time at 30 fps and with performance mode that doesn't have to sacrifice so much.
The next gen starts when I say it does.
That's a waste of two years then. We're two years behind with these consoles in terms of how powerful they could be. If Sony and MS had waited until 2023 to launch ps5/sx we would've actually had a generation that can handle REAL ray tracing, dynamic gi, and next gen geometry all at the same time at 30 fps and with performance mode that doesn't have to sacrifice so much.
The next gen starts when I say it does.
1 word. Physics.Gameplay hasn't really evolved in years and it doesn't seem like it will anytime soon.
Ehhhhhhhhh, plenty of next (current) gen games that don't do all of thatPC with a 3080 and above ...able to do a full suite of RT with great image quality, close to 60 fps, with lots of geometric density and with real time gi.
Yup, as evidence by this very thread's existence, this gen is going to be more drawn out than previous ones imo.But the Next-gen wouldn't fully start until 2030. So a PS5 Pro makes even MORE sense now.