Rainbow 6 Patriots 'target gameplay' trailer

If that's what next gen games are going to look like then colour me massively disappointed and unhappy. There are games now that look far better than that.

Huh?

From the looks of it there's not much of a poly count going there to begin with, as most of the detail seems to be normal mapping, and poly count doesn't necessarily mean 'more detail' (though it can mean you're fucking your performance up because your models are too dense for no good reason).

The only thing I can't see consoles doing there is the lighting which looks to be using global illumination due to some of how the soft shadows are being casted along with the ambient occlusion on the walls in the first scene, the shadow map resolutions are too high, and the AA looks like a form of high end MSAA or SSAA, (but can be easily alleviated with MLAA for consoles as has been proven in the past) but otherwise it's doable on a console and frankly piss for a high end PC to run, which I don't want consoles to match but surpass.

And the animation isn't great. It's just mocap and you can find far better in games such as Uncharted 3 and Battlefield.

This is doable on current gen, with only minor compromises that can be baked into the scene for far less resource hogging. But again, I think the trailer is meant to emphasis the style of play rather than its visual flair.