TLDW: TI is talking mostly BS
ok then...
The mainstream consumer doesnt care about that - they want nicer looking graphics.
the mainstream consumer plays Fortnite in the performance renderer mode where the game uses Mobile version assets and has no shadows...
Those games use tech that was completey impossible on previous generations, so it isnt just "enhanced PS4 graphics"
It is the simulation complexity in general that is much higher - more NPCs, more particles, more physics etc.
it wasn't impossible to use any given thing in Spider-Man 2 on PS4. they simply increased the complexity of what was already there. the complexity wouldn't be possible, the underlying tech however was still mostly based on what games did on PS4.
this isn't comparable with games adding Lumen or Nanite.
the only thing Insomniac added to their games that wouldn't be feasible even in reduced forms are the RT reflections, and those replaced something that was the most temporally unstable part of their presentation on PS4, the Screen Space Reflections.
so they took what was there, pushed it a bit to use the new hardware, and added performance oriented RT reflections that are a perfect fit for a game where you are constantly around highly reflective buildings. and they were able to while running at above 1440p 60fps most of the time as well.
meanwhile Silent Hill 2 uses Lumen GI in a mostly static game and ridiculously low quality Lumen reflections where literal cubemaps would have been superior in their presentation.
and all that at fucked up low resolutions and unstable performance
a huge difference in approaches to use the current hardware.
It might not be perfect yet, but going back to baked lighting is completely impractical.
then wait until it's better?
also baked lighting isn't the only answer. there was real time dynamic lighting on PS4... fuck on 360 even.
Crytek's SVOGI runs on the fucking Switch even. and looks fine.
indirect light bounces without baking, on the Switch...
do they use a very low precision version on Switch? yeah... but extrapolate what is possible with a voxel based GI solution on a mobile chip, to what would be possible if properly utilised on a 10+ TFLOPS RDNA2 GPU.
SVOGI has no RT boiling, no flickering blotches of shadowed areas... it can have light leakage, but way less unpleasant than Lumen also has for example, where it's a constant shimmer instead of it being a bit too light
Silent Hill 2, Jedi Survivor, Immortals of Aveum... I mean, most games that use Lumen tbh.
and yes I know Jedi is using UE4 RT not lumen, but it was still unnecessary... which funnily enough is proven by their own game on PC, where you can turn RT completely off and it still looks totally fine.
I´m sorry, but if that is enough for you to stop, then I dont see how you can ever have fun playing ANY game.
Graphics isnt everything!
if a game looks broken, yes, it's enough for me to stop and maybe fix it.
I mean the game has more issues than that, and it was one aspect I had to manually fix because Bloober team is incapable of making a technically solid product and always was.
