This really is quire interesting.
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He let it happen, after years of being lead on...
I just prefer Nvidia.
Primarily the drivers/software.
Hardware wise, they're pretty identical.
Also, given how he's been acting lately. He really seems to want to have that distilled core experience of pure gameplay and nothing more. Which to him has come to mean the opposite of what he's been doing all his life.
Probably sees all these indie devs doing cool little things they love and wants to try it on for size. Who knows, Jaffe could end up as the next big indie dev or something. That could be neat.
You naughty girl.
Killzone 3 looked leaps and bounds more awesome than something like L.A. Noire did. (not to discount how good either games are)
No amount of technology can make as much impact as a well designed piece of art. Of which I'm going to cite the WipEout series for it's striking and unique designs, and The Elder Scrolls as my reference point for how to do it right, graphical technology be damned.
In the case of Oblivion, the characters looked pretty terrible and really the main difference between them and Skyrim's characters was simply Art Direction. They still aren't quite what they could be but they're far better proof of good Art Direction rather than Graphical Technology.