It was in an inteerview. Youtube somewhere. You may as well look as much as me. Dont even remeber the title. But the Remedy reference is on their official site about EDRams abilities. Imagine GeoW 2 using it. That extra resources would go towards more effects processed etc.

i dissagree on overall AA numbers.

whats more important is how it actually looks when you playing.

Slight correction on the bolded. See my thread (links to Digital Foundry) of Mass Effect 2 technically:

http://www.vgchartz.com/forum/thread.php?id=101279&page=1

It's actually the other way round. Mass Effect 1 had 2xAA, in Mass Effect 2 they turned it off to save on performance and sucessfully incorporated bloom and depth of field to cover up the lack of AA. So AA really isn't always that important if you can add other effects. I don't think many would suggest ME1 looks better than 2. I do notice some improvement on my PC when I force 4xAA, but then I sit very close to the screen as I'm on PC.

OT: Will be interesting to see devs push the 360. I think the Unreal Engine has really been overused this gen. I'm hoping Cryengine 3 will also up the technical standard on consoles as well as Sony and MS' first/second party titles. I have so far been fairly impressed by Alan Wake. Not so much Halo Reach, but I will reserve judgement on that as I haven't seen a huge amount of media on it.

If you ask me, resolution is more important than FSAA, but what do I know? I'm just a PC snob. Also, as far as I'm concerned, Edge Detect CFAA is the standard when you want nice ass AA these days. I expect console games to jag like hell to my eyes no matter what, so it's a non-issue to me.

That's ok news for xbox owners, but seriously, the ps3 is leaps ahead when it comes to Anti Aliasing. The xbox 360 maxes at 4 times MSAA, the ps3 is capable of much more than (16 times MSAA), More advanced than most high end computers, all thanks to the cell. For instance, uncharted 2 is flawless. Here read this article

http://gamer.blorge.com/2010/01/05/ps3-smoothing-beyond-that-of-high-end-pc-graphics-card/

Correction to OP- Mass Effect 2 used AA selectively so during cut scenes especially on the characters heavy duty AA was implemented but during actual game play it wasn't hard to spot the wealth of jaggies everywhere. And MAss Effect 1 DID use AA.

exactly.. with a few exceptions of course. To me though, developers don't utilize it to it's best. But now I realize it's probably just the engine itself.

LOL. The 360 can do x16 if it wanted as well. The point is to do that costs HUGE resources on Cell and leaves alot less resources for parts of the game. Why do you think KZ2 opted for 2xQSAA instead of the superior 2xMSAA? QSAA gives more than half the performance cut, but leaves textures blurred. U2 also is only 2xMSAA. The first 4 MSAA entire Full Screen game is Alan Wake.

The 360 does 4xMSAA free. Thats the point. PS3 would use considerable resource from Cell to do 4xMSAA, meaning less can be used for other things. Thats why it's so great that the 360 has a specially built chip just for AA. It means the entire system is never compromised.

And it's not much more than 16 MSAA as you quote. It's MLAA, which is software driven. Less reliable and many issues of further blurr. Less performance hit like QSAA but worse image on textures, shadows etc. Only good for polygon jaggies.

It shows, because Reach and Wake look the best on the 360.