They may not know much about the graphics techniques used but I'm sure many would notice the perceivable on screen visual fidelity. Also the notion that this particular crossgen title can be run on current gen hardware would psychologically lead them to believe that such game is lesser graphically to the nextgen only counterpart, not to mention the slew of marketing would heavily reinforce that idea/fact. I'm not making this stuff out of thin air here, tons of my friends share the same sentiment during PS4/Xbone launch. With the ever prevalence of social media, even the common folks are more informed than ever before, you can't just keep pretend everything will be fine forever.Consumers don't have any idea about the various level of graphical differences, only forum goers do. Everything will be fine.
Also, I suggest you do the same but with launch-year exclusives. Compare them to current cross-platform games. They pale in comparison too. Not even launch year exclusives can stand by current cross-platform games when it comes to graphical fidelity.
As for the current multiplat, the midgen upgrades sure muddied the water a lot so there's far more variables to consider, not to mention they're all enjoying the fruit of labor in the form of technology progression in a span of 6 years. Then again, stuffs like Tlou2, Death Stranding, Ghost of Tsushima and God of War are still at the top of echelon over 99% of multiplat out there, however we are getting slightly OT here.
Last edited: