Quote Originally Posted by ghost101 View Post
Not if nvidia has any say on it.
NVIDIA can only stall adoption, not prevent it. Look at the hits NVIDIA takes in games with deferred shading... up to 68% in Bioshock on the GTX 260. If Bioshock were DX10.1 you'd see the same 14-24% AA hit on the 4850. Eventually, almost all games are going to use DX10.1 and deferred shading, that's a promise. When that day comes (probably by this time next year), assuming it doesen't run out of video memory, you'll see 4850s beating GTX 280s any time >= 4xAA is used. The only way this projection could be wrong is if NVIDIA has undocumented support for DX10.1 based shader AA.