Have we reached peak visuals? I mean from the good ol days at the start of 4850s/8800gtx and even before came with milestones in graphics more polygons more lifelike and GPUs were needed to show them in their smoothest forms! Spending a couple of hundred to upgrade was a guilty pleasure. This seems to have stopped less than a decade ago and even the new consoles arent introducing or setting a new standard nowadays, they are just lower end gaming PCs now. But the jump from PS1 graphics to PS2 and then finally the PS3 were revolutionary. PS4 to PS5 were merely performance upgrades and is evident through their backwards compatibility. How sad
now gamers a spending monry just to up frames for games that have less detail.
Peaked, plateaued or even gone backwards. I remember Battlefield 3 on PC being impressive and it ran well on modest hardware, no upscaling back then of course either. That was 2011. Has it been surpassed really? BF4 was the peak of the series overall but used the same engine.
Forza Motorsport '8' is literally a graphics downgrade over the ten years older Forza Motorsport 5.
EA Sports WRC (2023-24) is a massive step back graphically even from Dirt Rally (2015) never mind Dirt Rally 2.0 (2019) which also ran better on much weaker hardware.
Games don't look better, they run worse and need much higher system requirements because devs have become lazy or incompetent it seems. I've heard it suggested that the industry doesn't attract the best, due to low pay and insecure conditions. Perhaps that's why, I don't know.
