Ken Levine is awesome. If you haven’t heard the BioShock head honcho steaming up the place with industry insight via Irrational Interviews, you haven’t lived. Well, you have, just not fully. Ken’s living, though. He’s so busy living he doesn’t even care if an eighth generation of consoles ever rolls around. You know why? Because Ken reckons the ones we’ve already got have “lots of juice left.”

"It's clear there's still a fair bit of juice left in these machines," he told Access. "You look at Arkham City, Uncharted and Gears of War and you're starting to see that these games don't look old to me. They look very current. I was playing Batman the other day and he's flying over this huge city, the snow is landing on the wings of his cape and you can see it hitting and melting... they still retain the power to visually amaze me. From a gameplay standpoint absolutely there's a tonne of juice left [in current consoles]. There are lots of things to explore. That doesn't mean it's not challenging to build on what you've done - obviously Infinite is a very large step up in terms of technology from BioShock 1."