G9 can't hold up to the hype, was to be expected. the main selling point, the 8K textures, are also the biggest drawback because there are simply not enough good resources out there for creating such highly detailed textures. so most of the new G9 characters will end up looking not better than G8 because creators will fill the bloated textures with generic patterns to fake the higher resolution.
V9 was just a tech demo that showed what a character can look like when skilled texture artists put really much effort in a single character.