Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain Metacritic Game of the Year 2015. Healthcare Benefits, Paid time off and Living Wage, can't have talented developers hospitalized/dead.
Since most modern AAA games graphics have variable graphics quality. Future console would focus on less install, loading, faster storage, multiple SSDs in raid 0 and have the option to use more powerful external gpus, like AMD R9 Nano for 4K.
Square Enix have license to both Unreal Engine and Enlighten applied to FFVII remake. Yet Luminous Engine looks better Day and Night in Timelapse, Indoor and Outdoor. Did Julien Merceron really have something to do with that?
What if Nintendo can compete with Hardware by using common PC Graphic Cards from ASUS/MSI/Ggigabyte/Sapphire/Po wercolor/XFX as "Supplemental Computing Device"?
Simply using AMD Radeon Crossfire Technology, NX could easily be many times more powerful than their competitor. People can argue about complexities, but AMD's drives to propel it's GPU sales, technology and software would overcome such issues.
PlayStation 3 was not able to achieve, because the Cell Architecture was a billion dollars fool's errand. PS3 fanboys can parade Uncharted series to the end of the universe, but it ain't Final Fantasy 7, The Last Guardian, thankfully there's PS4.
Crazy Ken's Playstation 3 CELL Architecture, yet People used to says "Uncharted, Ni no Kuni, great!", those games ain't Final Fantasy 7.
Mark Cerny most probably forgotten to get advance CELL architecture manual translated into Japanese, because no japanese developer manage to make PS3 games like Final Fantasy 7.
And now Who's going to make game like Final Fantasy 7 on the PS4? It's Square Enix and probably Epic Games doing the diffi...
I want hours of NieR 2, Dragon Quest, Kingdom Hearts 3 tech presentation. I want to know about physically based rendering, skin shader, lighting, tiled resources, tress fx etc. Tech, Tech, Tech, so great story can be deliver great.