Right now there is a shift in how pcs are marketed and packaged. Instead of low-med-high end you're getting Basic, Gaming, Media and Ultimate packages. Soon a lot of the price premium will evaporate and we will start to see some very nice affordable packages. You can see this happening in laptops already.
The ability to play Crysis is irrelevant to this discussing anyway! It was not targeted at todays graphics cards but tomorrows. But with the 9800gx2 you can almost max it, and come July we will see the new Nvidia cards roll out and im sure THEN you will see crysis maxed.
Lastly, need I remind people of the $10 difference in game costs? You can still ebay your games if you really want to anyway. PC games drop in cost faster also. So you can easily save 100-200 a year on game costs and that will be enough to keep your GPU and RAM current.
For those saying that they become obsolete fast, consider the current situation. 8800gtxs and 8800gts (g80) are still current enough to play all games. Owners of those cards won't even need to upgrade until sometime next year at the earliest.
Tease.
