When does a game become "retro"?

[Prowler]

Originally Posted by CyberCubed

PS3/PS4/PS5 games all feel very similar although very early PS3 games feel dated now.

Meanwhile PS2/Gamecube/Xbox games definitely feel like a generation before. Although it's weird for me to even consider PS2 and Gamecube games retro, they definitely are since they're 20 years old now. Fun fact: It wasn't even 20 years before Gamecube came out that the NES was out...as NES didn't come out till 1985.

Yeah I agree.

Honestly if you show me a game that came out in 2012 or so I'd probably not be able to guess it was a decade old already. Naturally that doesn't happen with GC era games and games that came out before that.

I'm not sure we'll ever experience another major graphics jump. Unless games eventually start to look like 100% like reality. But that's never going to be possible for fantasy style games.