>the vidya industry has spent over 20 years and hundreds of billions of dollars perfecting lifelike graphics just for it to cause the AAA industry to collapse and for indie developers to revert to using 1990s era graphics
Graphics are a scapegoat, the true problem is development bloat and dogshit management. Plenty of examples of games with good graphics from small teams
>>723518869 >Graphics are a scapegoat
Not necessarily, when taken from the standpoint that part of modern "development bloat" includes games using meme textures, for meme resolutions, with meme post-processing, on meme engines. The best of the 7th gen holds up today, even more so now that you get these bloated releases that push all their bullshit but still have to downscale a game to 2008's target of 1080p@60 or they spontaneously combust.
