This console generation has worn out its welcome. The hardware inside the Xbox 360 was middle-of-the-road five years ago, and yet we're all stuck with that system's specs because of cross-platform development. Game developers could scale up their content to take advantage of more powerful PC hardware, but they typically don't, as there's little financial incentive to do so. The willingness of console gamers to buy seventh generation games - combined with a much smaller market for PC games - means that Microsoft and Sony have zero motivation to bring their toys into generation eight.
There are, however, exceptions to the lowest-common-denominator rule. The original Crysis was revelation in 2008, and Metro 2033 pushed up against the steel ceiling of photorealism in video games two years later. The next game to raise the bar may well be Battlefield 3, if this "gameplay trailer" is actually representative of the game itself:
Think about how visually indistinct 2010's Black Ops was to 2007's Modern Warfare. Then have a look at this collection of screenshots.
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