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Originally Posted by Cory
I have trouble believing the graphics will be better than current PC's with SLI configuration, but I guess I'll have to wait and see once they hit other stores (No Walmarts aroung here, if you can believe it).
If it truly is better than current PC graphics cards, I can't see that standing for more than 3 months or so. It's using the same technology from ATI or Nvidia or whoever is making it, as is used for PC cards. Plus, Microsoft is limited to that one chip for the entire production life of the console, whereas a new generation of PC cards comes out every 3-4 months.
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I don't think its necessarily that the graphics cards are really any better, but rather the uniform specifications of the X-Box allow for the console's resources to be tapped a bit more. Most PC gamer specifications vary all up and down in a gigahertz in processor speed, and anywhere from 256mb of ram all the way up to 4gb.
If a developer were to create a PC game requiring a 3.0 processor and 1gb of ram, they wouldn't come any where close to a tenth of the market, yet if they scale that down to a 2.0 and 512mb of ram, they're able to gain many more sales, at the expense of quality.