Besides not qualifying your statements or giving us your opinions on the article, I have to disagree with you. The Sorcerer looks pretty incredible and stacks up to what LOTR was doing 10 years ago. Give them a chance to actually optimize their engines and I think we are walking in the footsteps of what you assert are CGI films today. Sure a $400 console will never truly match a $40,000 renderman rig that takes 24 hours to render a single scene – that would be impossible. But considering where we are coming from technologically, the quality of animation is starting to match what is being done in animated films today.

You look at the stuff Silicon Studio is doing right now with Yebis, and the they are hitting all the bulletpoints on the article above. They are post processing on the fly – something even pixar can’t do effectively right now. Those tools are only going to get better as they squeeze performance out of them. Look at Naughty Dog from Uncharted 1 to the Last of Us and you get my point.

http://blog.us.playstation.com/2013/07/08/yebis-2-bringing-visual-fireworks-to-ps4-developers/

so you say it is “sooooooooo far off”? I tend to think it is not as far off as you say. Maybe I have crap eyeballs and am not picking up on nuances, but for my money we are solidly running into the uncanny valley on pre-release PS4 demos. Give artists some time and we will probably see a studio push through to transparent human digital characters ala Avatar.

My question/and what I am hoping for is PS4 sorcerer qulity graphics in games like Battlefield 4, grand theft auto 5, infamous,ect(online and offline)…point being games that are not canned and linear with lots of things happening on screen!!! If Sony can give that to me in the next 2-3 years I would truly be a happy camper…I think its time now to move beyond linear games and provide true open world as the standard

No it was not close to CGI…don’t lie to yourself…it was off, the way the characters moved, looked, the way things reacted (clothing, flame, hair) was not even close to film cgi….sooooooooooo far off it’s ridiculous…and btw that doesn’t mean it looks “BAD” it just means it looks no where near what is being done in CGI films today.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BqeuHGESZBA

It is also one of the reasons I pre-ordered a PS4. If they can do that now – imagine 3 years down the line when they are actually optimizing everything like current-gen consoles.

The future is going to be sick yall!