Its not that developers have gone lazy, its the fact that all these new hardware and software techs are coming up with new graphical upgrades that weren't present in previous cards because they never had the power to support it. Developers are enthusiastic like us, so they want to achieve all the visual fidelity that they can while maintaining higher resolution and frame rate. In the end, its a hard compromise between the look and the feel. Top that with the pressure from the publishers.



Current-gen machines are not as powerful as we are expected to think, but are more powerful than what we have been used to. Parallel with the bullshots we've been used to; Devs are keen to showcase it with pride and that's the first thing that needs to be let go of.