PS4 is believing they will finally hit the goal of making game characters look real. 

All gamers know that each new system and game upgrade gets a little more realistic and Mark Cerny, PS4's lead system architect thinks the that time has come. With technology advancing so much, photorealism in games is getting so close that users will soon forget sometimes that they are actually looking at CGI. 

Cerny spoke with Edge-Online and talks about the final steps to make users forget they are watching something that is computer generated and it mostly has to do with the expressions of the human face. 

"We are at the point in the PlayStation 4 generation where we will forget sometimes that we're looking at CGI rather than captured video," Cerny said.

"I don't think it will be indistinguishable. I just think that at times we'll be able to forget, and it will depend on lighting and depend on the scene. I don't think we'll be consistently able to be at that point so if you used video, you really would be drawing attention to the fact that the actors really don't exist in the game's world."

Cerny talks about film being able to capture the human emotion on a face so easily, even at low budget, but games have to spend millions to make it happen. 

"If you look at games and you look at film, in film no matter how much cheap your production is, you have access to emotion because you have access to the human face," he added. "But in games that's the most expensive thing - the human body is the most expensive thing you can try to put in your game - at least a human who looks like a human. So it takes tens of millions of dollars to do what film can do on many levels for just a few hundred thousand dollars. It took a while for the technology to get to the point where we could really put something compelling in there on the narrative side."

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