7.0 copium has got to stop

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It sounds less like a new engine and more like they are adding a better texture pack and lighting features. This will not be an entirely new look to the game, just kind of polishing up the look we already have, you aren't suddenly going to be able to count the pores on an NPCs face or anything.

Yes, as you say, they have already been very clear on this, it's new technologies for lighting, shadows/antialiasing and certainly dx12,
put more details/item in instances/map.

But it's not a graphics engine change, just an update so that they can technologically keep up with the next 10 years, and yes yoshida has already said that the graphics update will be in the form of a texture pack that can be activated on pc/ps5 since the ps4 will not have the option.

Moreover the graphic update will not be complete in 7.0, it will continue on the 7.x-8.x patches because the work is much too important to release everything at once, so it will be released in several parts.