@Zakon_BY But they were limited, just now by the PS3 and PS4 specs. While early GT Sport was bare-bones, when I played it in 2021 after years of updates I put 200+ hours into it.
I personally disagree but I can see where you are coming from and it's an interesting discussion.
@Zakon_BY Does it matter that they couldn't achieve it if the artistic intent was exactly the same?
They were still fighting the same limitations of GPU, CPU and Memory just on a different scale to now. GT4 was photorealistic for the time and it sold consoles because of it.