For all those wondering why current consoles would not be able to handle games like crysis in all it's glory

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"It's absolute nonsense to think that consoles are at the cutting edge," said Roy Taylor, vice president of content relations at Nvidia, the world's biggest manufacturer of graphics cards.

"As good as consoles are, they are so far behind the PC gaming experience that there is no comparison.

Nvidia's latest high-end graphics cards, the 8800 series, can easily produce graphical effects that tax the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3, such as motion blur, depth of field and volumetric smoke.

Mr Taylor said: "Fog, smoke or mist in games until now have been flat and don't respond to objects. Volumetric effects mean they are dynamic - a helicopter can now displace cloud or smoke, or a character can step through the fog realistically."

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Nvidia provides the graphics grunt for the PlayStation 3, while rival ATI provides the imaging hardware for the Xbox 360.

Mr Taylor points out that the latest graphics cards can draw twice as many pixels, twice the screen resolution, as a PlayStation 3 or Xbox 360.

TeamR

Bit of confusion at that second to last statement; are you saying a PS3 has a Nvidia in it or are you saying that they would grunt or growl at the PS3?

Seriously, wasn't it? I remember a bunch of posts about R&C and its potential to move PS3's...

And about a half dozen fake boys stating:

"I'm going to store right now to buy a PS3 cause R&C is coming out"

"I just got back from my local grocery store and PS3's were all sold out"

"I just saw a guy walk out of Best Buy with 9 PS3's cause R&C is coming out"

"R&C is a killer app.... really it is"

QUIKnEZ

I have a PS3 and I am looking for a good deal on a 360 and I can tell you, the stores in my area are completely sold out of PS3's however the Xbox 360's are half gone as well.