What do you think PS3/Xbox2 games will look like?

[PC-Engine]

You're right, its not insanely complex in models or textures, but its the way everything "fits" perfectly in the scene, probably due to the lighting.

Lighting in the first pic and style in the second pic.

 

[Phil]

Well GT3 wouldn't exactlly push an GC or Xbox GPU at the moment, the great thing about GT3 is it uses lots of visual tricks to make it look great without much rendering over head.

What I mean is take a look at Project gotham it does at least double the polygon counts and has 7 realtime reflections running at once (6 for cars, 1 for the road, it's active in both rain and not rain tracks). Now PS2 would have no hope of replicating that kind of rendering but it still doesn't make PGR look better than gT3 now does it.

Well as impressive PGR might sound technically, I think it fails miserably in competing thanks to the low-framerate reflections which somewhat spoils it and some other things. In the end, it always comes down to the talent of a developer and it really shows. Still, although next generation consoles will be so much more impressive, I think that some of us will be quite amazed once this generation really gets tapped out. PSX came a long way too since its launch in 1994. Heck, sometimes I can't even believe that something like SH3/Z.O.E.2 is supposed to run in real time on basically 1999 tech... no doubt, 2005 tech will be mighty impressive.