Originally Posted by wmsteele 
...who cares about simulations...
Rediffusion's shareholders - at a guess
In reality, all of this stuff is very important
Yesterday's uber-geek demo rapidly becomes a physics-engine company's inspiration/IP, which leads to the next generation of tools/SDKs for developers
You need constant drive from the R&D guys at Stanford etc to really push the gaming experience forward
Wonder if anyone would care to hazard a guess on how long it takes the 'leading/bleeding edge' stuff to come to market ?
The Final Fantasy film came out around 6 years ago and - compared to the Ti500/Radeon 8500 cards of the day - it seemed to be a monster of real-world-simulation
Crysis and Alan Wake look like they will be batting around the same level of realism - in real time - when they are played on the R600/G81 cards that are available this summer
Today's question for the HEXUS.massive is...
What is the 'Final Fantasy' of today that will be played out at 60fps in 2013 ?