See this is the problem though. We’ve hit a point where tech is expected to advance and be twice as good and with all these advancements, and not just in graphics departments, it makes games that much more complex and time-consuming to develop
Genuinely unreal 5 is incredible but games don’t need that much more power. games don’t need to be 4k ready for consoles because a lot of people cant afford 4k televisions. And yet we’re prepping for 8k now. AAA studios have become obsessed with making things prettier and utilizing hardware to its fullest when its wholly unnecessary.
I genuinely don’t like Nintendo as a business because of the way it treats its fans but i do respect them using less powerful hardware and making that work. Games don’t need unreal 5 to be good. Games don’t need complex system programming to be good. there is like this inherent expectation that more powerful hardware will yield more impressive games and that’s not necessarily true
Like to this day most of my favorite games were on the GameCube. The Gamecube and Wii generation (not just nintendo, but ps2, 360, etc) were some of my favorite moments in gaming and i wish games were simple again. and not like simple in terms of content but like. Not all games need a 5 year dev cycle.
