Its a hardware event and they talked about hardware with screenshots from games you're familiar with.
The alternatives are to dead-reckon the fidelity of new games you've never seen, fake some downgraded comparisons that haven't shipped for those games or talk about gameplay that should be identical on the existing PS5.
I guess they could have thrown in some irrelevant sizzle but wouldn't it just overshadow the hardware?
Games are being held back by cultural stigma. At its core it's a new artistic medium, just like moving pictures (film) was back in the early 20th century. Imagination is the only limit here, but society at large still thinks "video games" are for kids. Perhaps if it was called interactive entertainment or something like that, people would be more likely to get into it.
That's one data point. If you compare it to movies and shows, the audience skews a lot younger. If you ask the average person their perception is that they are too busy to play games, yet they probably spend many hours watching movies and shows.
It's not as much as it was 10 years ago, but the perception of wasting time is still there. I'm mostly talking about the US though.
something to appreciate about Nintendo, they don't focus on graphics but gameplay through level design, game mechanics etc.
well written stories such as the last of us are good too.