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This generation of consoles has been rather short on "next-gen moments" – those dazzling, technological revelations when you see a game do things that were unthinkable on previous hardware. You could make a case for Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart's lightning-fast loading or Starfield's potato physics, but there have been relatively few instances where you can see the future arrive in real time.