PhantomJedi:
Quote: "My concern is, I don't know what comes afterward. With convincing rounded surfaces, believable human character models, grass, trees and all those formerly oh-so-irritating technologically impeded aspects of a gameworld effectively depicted already in existing game engines, I don't know what the technology will add to gameplay in the coming generation."
I think the next step will be looking at the computer graphics and not thinking they are computer graphics, which up until now you can't. I remember being amazed when I went to see the Final Fantasy film, for the first half hour I wasn't sure if it was real people acting of computer graphics. The cut scenes on final fantasy X get close to this, but this is the future of games I think, when you don't think "look at those wonderful graphics" but instead "look at that wondeful place". Looking at the pictures that started this thread I think the consoles are getting close, then maybe they will start to evolve, maybe under that pressure they will start inventing new technologies instead of improveing what they have...holographic projectors are next I think (jokes!)