I have a laptop that's at least 4-5x as powerful as te ps3 in raw power output and yet the only game on it that looks better overall than GOW3, UC2, Heavy Rain, KZ2 or GT5 is crysis (IMHO gt5 looks quite a lot better but thats not fair because it's a racing game, not nearly as open world) PC devs should at least TRY and optimise. Remember the BFBC2 beta guys? remember 4870x2 and quad core owners having technical issues? THAT was a good example of how much of a joke PC gaming has become. Constant hardware upgrades that cost in excess of $450 (for graphics cards?!?!?!) is a joke. Why in the hell would you spend money on a gtx 480 when you can buy 2 ps3s for that (but realistically you'd stick with one for less than half the price of a 480) This is why there are getting fewer and fewer PC gamers left outside of the die hard PC fanboys that think crysis is everythig and multplats like assassins creed look better than UC2 (LOL)This trend of massively inflated pricng, constant outdating and sub-par optimisation is getting too much for me and I imagine many others too. Sometimes I genuinely wonder how a true gamer could get by on just PC gaming. Consider that the real GOTYs and most of the contenders too have been console exclusives for the past 3 or 4 years and that you can experience these for a fraction of the price of a decent rig... Dont get me wrong I love my desktop/laptop but it's getting to be a real joke.

your right as I read something the other day as ATI is changing from 28 nm to 32 nm for their "Bulldozer" series (HD 6000). They are switching gears fast but because of the Tsmc they are now maybe a quarter behind release for the HD 6000 series.

With such a high demand for chips right now from Ati Nvidia Apple Intel and many cell phone companies I don't see prices going down on high end electronics. darn u supply and demand.

Somebody on N4G must have a dislike for me because in the last week I am getting at least one disagree every time I comment lol.

OpenCL is a subset of OpenGL, which is already a widely adopted standard. OpenGL and DirectX are what GPU's support. Many games and engines are built on OpenGL, yet they don't run on Mac's or Linux. And why is that? Because the application (game) still has to go through some very thorough rewriting to run on another operating system.

And sure, so far in the half a year DX11 has been out, there haven't been a crap load of games that support it. But the ones that are out are some pretty awesome games. And there's many more to come. The addition of tessellation + displacement mapping makes DX11 a very important update that is bringing games graphics to a whole new level.

Oh an it's not just Microsoft that decides what's in DirectX. ATI and NVIDIA are the big deciders on what will and won't be in a DirectX version. Because ultimately it's up to them what they want to build support for in their GPU's. You seem to have hate for Microsoft, even though there's not much reason to. They created a great OS with Windows XP, and now with Windows 7.

Sorry buddy but I totally disagree with you. ATi and Nvidia can careless about whether its opengl or DX or whats in it. they only care that it changes every two years so that you are tempted to upgrade.

ATi and Nvidia sell cards on the MAc and the PC. Actually they prefer Opengl as it would work flawlessly on MAc and PC so they wouldn't have to make those stupid mac gPU's separate.

Steam's big push towards MAC has Micro$uck scared. If Apple moves towards the gaming crowd then that means more reasons to buy an Apple vs. Windows. Ati and Nvidia will make money either way. DX11 or Opengl doesn't matter.

@Krayzie Bone:

Actually no. It's a well known fact that Nvidia and ATI are the big deciders on what is and isn't implemented in a new DirectX version.