Funny you should mention that! I’m around your age or perhaps a little bit older. I was playing 2015’s Arkham Knight last night - a triple-A title in its time a

Funny you should mention that! I’m around your age or perhaps a little bit older. I was playing 2015’s Arkham Knight last night - a triple-A title in its time and by any measure a good looking game - and was struck actually by how far we’ve come in just the last 5-6 years. I finished The Last of Us 2 recently and the gap between Arkham and that is night and day on every dimension: resolution, lighting, particle effects, textures, animation, temporal reconstruction techniques. I won’t disagree with your central point about diminishing returns. On the other hand, the jumps are probably bigger than I realised until I went back and looked.