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Re:45% of Enthusiasts 'Seriously Considering' Leaving Sony f... by darth_avocado on Friday July 10, 2026 @04:55PM (#48865128)
> but consumers are also demanding better graphics.

Modern games have visually worse graphics than games that came out 10+ years ago. Beyond that, the success of a lot of games recently with non AAA budgets shows that gamers aren’t demanding anything from the industry beyond playable games that don’t treat them as a perpetual revenue stream.

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Re:45% of Enthusiasts 'Seriously Considering' Leaving Sony f... by bluefirebrand on Friday July 10, 2026 @05:28PM (#48865533)
> Modern games have visually worse graphics than games that came out 10+ years ago

My knee jerk reaction was to disagree with this, but I thought about it a bit

The Witcher 3 came out 10 years ago. So did Red Dead Redemption 2 (edit: not quite, actually 8 years. Still!)

A lot of games still fall short of those in the graphics department

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Re:45% of Enthusiasts 'Seriously Considering' Leaving Sony f... by darth_avocado on Friday July 10, 2026 @11:15PM (#48868365)
There is a real reason behind this. A lot of games before, used to be built on custom game engines and were heavily optimized. When you build on unreal 5, optimization is poorly done or completely ignored. On top of that, reliance on upscaling causes a weird feel to the overall look.
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Re:45% of Enthusiasts 'Seriously Considering' Leaving Sony f... by wernerb on Saturday July 11, 2026 @02:44AM (#48869428)
Death stranding 1 and 2 also look absolutely amazing. They are not using unreal engine but their own. Not sure what magic they are pulling off there.
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Re:45% of Enthusiasts 'Seriously Considering' Leaving Sony f... by asantopietro on Saturday July 11, 2026 @02:15PM (#48874300)
They are using the game engine from the developer who produced the Horizon Zero Dawn and Forbidden West games, called Decima.
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Re:45% of Enthusiasts 'Seriously Considering' Leaving Sony f... by Pay08 on Saturday July 11, 2026 @08:26AM (#48871447)
At the same time, both of those games had an entire AAA studio behind them (you could consider CDPR to be AA), whereas most other AAA studios work on a number of projects at a time. Same reason Starfield ended up having such high visual "prowess", in lieu of talking about just graphics.
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