" wizbang graphical features in on the 360 only MSAA, depth of field, heat shimmer, etc." errr permission to address the bench me lud ! The right honorable Adrian Cook has fabricated a tissue of bol**cks , theses effects have been abvailavle to PC users for many years ...

I think he's reffering to the normal target PC spec, which is probably much lower than a default xbox 360

The 360 is also designed with those effects in mind so it takes less of a performance hit by enabling them. But as Craig says, he is talking about an average PC as well.

Well I knew what he meant but the his high level reference wound me a up a wee bit & I have no doubt the 360 has some meat under the bonnet & that you can design a title without having to cater for multiple HW specifications but shelving the PC version of the title puts out a bad message to the rest of the developer community out there. With the cost of high end PC's dropping like stone the HW performance argument is not in my opinion a valid one - hell what's the current install base for the 360? I would wager that ther will be a greater number of X800 , 6800 ,7800 devices out there they will out number the 360 users out there for some time ( well for another year at least )