@jmc88888 when a gpu is set up with a specific architecture for a specific console application, the result is performance that far surpasses the performance of the pc equivalent, take the radeon x1900 video cars and yet it still makes competent looking games on 7 year old tech.

On top of that, the programmers for games only have to optimize for one specific hardware setup per console, as opposed to a near infinite amount of different computes.

All in all, I think with something in the range of a 6670 (although i bet the gpu will actually be a 7000 series) will be more than enough for console gaming to look lik the pc graphics of the time.

-BTW, I'm mostly a pc gamer and am not particularly biased about any platform

my pc is kind of wierd, i have 1.5 gb ram x850xtx 16 pipeline@ 550 mhz and a 3ghz HT @4.2ghz (i have an Agp) and this game runs amazingly smooth, except on the last level, but only when you look at Mother, if you look anywhere else, even that spinning portal where that harvester flies through,on one of the previous levels, it doesn't lag, btw, mother's texturing isn't that great anyway

check this out! 1.4 ghz processor, ati radeon x850 pro 256mb AGP, and 768 mb of RDRAM, yes that's RDRAM and it runs 30 fps on 1280x1024 w/ max settings on! (don't ask!) (God was on my side!)