I'm actually looking on the market for a cheap 7970/680 so this is reassuring in terms of future proofing my PC.

If they would run into limitations due to next gen lacking hardwarepower. I would rather see them producing the same results in 30fps they currently show instead of reducing resolution, lowering texture quality or god forbid reducing AA. Especially in a FF game. Racer, Fighter, multiplayer FPS excluded.

That thought process is how we ended up with shit like FF13 and 13-2 running sub 20 FPS sometimes, fuck that, it really bothers me when I play those games and the FPS dips like a bitch randomly. I'd take a 60FPS+ game over anything else just so my eyes don't suffer in pain.

PS: also, oh my fucking god The Last Remnant and Star Ocean The Last Hope, can the FPS dip even more?

Agni, the samaritan and UE4 tech demos really show what we could all be playing today on PC if it wasn't because consoles can't do this.
I hope all next gen consoles are relased next year because waiting until 2014 is just way too much. PCs won't have these graphics until consoles have them too :P

When fps dip randomly from 60 to 30 you will notice that too. The dips themselfs are noticeable a stable 30 is just as good as a stable 60 for a game like FF.

consoles will soon be called PC multimedia gaming units. it will exslain the price in the next coming gen's

The GTX 680 is the single most powerful GPU in the market... it's a really monster.

I think no next-gen console will came close to this monster in GPU terms... I really wanted to see this happened (a GTX680 on PS4 or 720) but I don't expect that.

Anyway the GTX680 runs this demo with one foot back.

Sorry but no impressive with this hardware.

Yeah, hundreds of thousands of S-E staff got to work on this. In fact, most of S-E's employees got to work for a full year to achieve this. And it slowed each and every of the company's productions down.

You see things with such incredible insight,  i'm actually becoming a fan.

Yeah, no. I don't buy this as indicative of anything the PS4 or NextBox will be even remotely capable of.

We're not getting Ivy Bridge i7-level CPU. Nor do I buy for a second that Sony or Microsoft will put in the GPU equivalent of a 7870, when that's at or even above the top-of-the-line performance of the best notebook GPUs. The most plausible HD 7000 series rumors I've heard have been a gimped 7850; the full retail version of that performs anywhere from 20% to 50% below the 680 depending on the game. And unless we're getting 16GB of RAM, games with texture data alone that takes up 2GB of RAM will be an issue. The OS and services of modern-day consoles are far more of a factor now than the bare-bones stuff we saw even last generation.

The price of consoles with anything like the kind of hardware used here would be ridiculous even without consideration for size or power draw. Putting that into something with the size and power consumption of a console at a non-stupid price range is not happening.

impossibru! I'm so used to 60fps that a 30 one is painfully obvious and I hate it.