

If expectations for the PS4 and Xbox One versions of Hogwarts Legacy are this low, what's that Switch port going to look like? Technological leaps these days are much less flashy than they used to be, but there's a world of difference between, say, the PS5 and the PS4, and it looks like even players are starting to understand the difficulties and effects of multi-generational development. A decade from there got us to the likes of The Witcher 3 and Uncharted 4. A decade after Super Mario 64, we were into massive open-world games like Oblivion.

A decade on from the launch of the NES, we were playing 3D revolutions like Super Mario 64. To put the age of this hardware in some historical perspective, 2023 will mark the ten-year anniversary of the launch of PS4 and Xbox One. Old-gen versions of games like Marvel's Midnight Suns have also seemingly been stuck in limbo.

We've seen games like God of War Ragnarok and Forza Horizon 5 scale well on older hardware, but we've also seen utter disasters like the last-gen versions of Cyberpunk 2077.
