I think the difference real-time lighting makes will become more obvious as games cease to be cross-gen and really embrace current generation hardware. Baked l

I think the difference real-time lighting makes will become more obvious as games cease to be cross-gen and really embrace current generation hardware. Baked lighting can achieve very good, near-photorealistic results in staticly lit scenes with static geometry. Once we see games really take advantage of dynamic lighting in highly dynamic scenes with a lot of moving elements, I suspect we'll look back at current and recent games and see them as lifeless by comparison.