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The opposite issue that Gamefreak has...
Personally, I think new games DO NOT need to surpass Monster Hunter: World and GTA 5. These games still look great to me. I can't imagine most people wanting 4K monitors and the PC parts required to run it. A game running on a good 1440p preset looks fantastic anyways.
Anno 1800 looks great, better than all the previous titles and is definitely a plus
Fuck cutting-edge graphics
I guess normies still equate graphic quality with overall game quality, so that's why there's such a big emphasis on photorrealism for many AAA games. An old colleague from university, ~2010, only liked to play the shiniest, "best looking" stuff and scoffed at 2D games, "we're way past super nintendos".
Sounds more like a tooling issue. The tech exists, the hardware can run it but the tools don't exist to make it feasible in a reasonable timeframe/with a reasonably sized dev team. Corners are being cut on optimization or relying on hardware brute forcing it.
Is this article from a decade ago when the Nintendo Wii proved that graphics don't mean shit if the gameplay sucks?
