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Originally posted by blade
Take a look at these shots from upcoming PS3 and Xenon games (they're in concept stages, but this is what the companies are driving for):
Madden:
http://blade.toastednet.org/madd.jpg
Need for Speed:
http://blade.toastednet.org/nfs.jpg
Omg 
By the time the PS4 and Xbox 3 come out - there may be no line left o.O
The image from Madden is clearly a still from an inline movie in the game. That's a WHOLE different thing then inline graphics from games! Such an image as inline game graphics will not be possible for years and years to come. Note that computer generated movies which that quality (raycasting, shadows, skins, hair, grass, etc...) still need half supercomputers and weeks to render a single second of movie....
This goes the same for the image from Need for Speed. Although that (render/reality) quality is much lower then the one from Madden, it also might as well be a still from an inline movie instead of actual game play...
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