>>715401656
>Take Hogwarts Legacy, the difference between the PS4 and PS5 version is less than some SNES and Genesis games (like MKII for example) despite a massive difference in hardware.
Yup, I know some recent Ubisoft games like Valhalla had separate versions for PS4/Xbone and PS5/X Series and there were minimal differences as well, a bit of fog here and there, higher resolution shadows and that's it. Any other generation previously had huge differences since, yeah, pretty much ~2013.
Take picrel, both games are two years apart. One is on the PS1, one is on the PS2. I can show you 10+, even some 15+ year old racing games that still look visually stunning and photorealistic, on the other hand.
With lazier code, and overreliance of heavy hardware-based solutions to things like lighting I think we might be regressing already.

>>715386210
for the sake of the '>hurr your picrel is two gens apart' crowd here's Gran Turismo 2 and 3, released two years apart on the PS1 and PS2 respectively