I personally believe the term next-gen should just be used on any tech that is better than the current generation of consoles, so current pc games can have next gen features, and the PS4 is next gen.
That reminds me of a meme! But yes next gen ps4 coming 4 years or so next gen :) Farfarer, i agree. Non-graphical improvements are probably what's needed more. Things like behavioral simulation that makes the world believable rather than the picture.
Right now we're next-gen. I believe you mean post-next-gen. The links appear to be chromatic aberration, shitty gpu particles, god rays fucking everywhere. I think this will be the generation of the 'realistic stylised'. So stylised art direction for designs, but with realistic rendering. That Tangled look.
This generation wont have the mega leap the last one had. Going from painted maps to the ability to having material definition was so massive, it defined the current generation and nothing even in the future will have such a leap. From now until games look exactly photo real it will just be improvements on things that…