Oh believe me, I'm not judging its outdated, but to be honest it is. But for it to be putting out visually stunning graphics as it is, is amazing. Its all about art style, something most games lack now-a-days
Point still stands. As it is, the console is hobbling what can be done on it. Once we get the next generation, we won`t immediately get a huge leap in quality, but we will see it later on.
Game play and Story first.
Graphics somewhere over here, In fact, this should be the last priority if it makes a better game.
Indeed, but he console has limitations in this aspect too. Size of map/levels is one. There's only so much you can fit in the console's current available memory.
IIRC, BF3 was gimped in this aspect, maps are much smaller.
It's not something inherently bad with consoles as a concept, it's just the current hardware specs. They just need to be updated to be brought back up to speed and then we'll be in the clear for a couple more years, if not a decade.