But remember, the hardware you get when it comes out will be the same hardware in 4-5 years. I'll take a killer PC and the hottest graphics hardware with a TView Gold as my game station. And yes, I get to configure it however I want it. Not by any means. For the true 3D gamer, more is always better.
Realism is the key to making any gaming experience more believable and engrossing.
That comes from the quality of the visuals and the accuracy of the physics models applied to the game play. Years ago, I played Space Invaders, PacMan, and Missile Command and loved every minute of it. As fun as those games were, they didn't have the quality required of 3D games today, that sense of being engulfed in the action. With the level of realism and game play that high horsepower 3D hardware can provide, those games are but distant memories. Although, imagine Missile Command in full 3D using a next generation game engine with real cities, real missiles, real life game dynamics, characters with real emotion you can see in their faces and pyrotechnics that would make a fireman nervous and you get a sense for where 3D can take you.