My ultimate test is how good do games look when compared to things like Final Fantasy the movie.

The reason I say this is because the graphics in that more took SO MUCH CPU time on super powerful machines, that there does not exist a single machine in the world that can do that in real time (unless the NSA has some top secret machines we don't know about).

So, if the graphics there are TOPS for early 21st century, any video game that comes close to it basically reaches the limit of technology for the next dozen years.

I think the XBOX does a great job of coming close to that (a few million poly's won't hurt to make things like hands rounder) but hope you get my point.

LK