"What I REALLY SEE happening is that all these models will get MUCH BETTER and that we will see 3D Game software actually "rendering" extremely high quality models within the next year." I don't think you'll see much of it within the next year. Not on a grand scale. Maybe within the next 5 years. It's true that some day extremely high res meshes with photo-realistic, real-time rendering will find it's way to the game market (when the technology gets that advanced), but right now, game graphics can't compete with high quality print or video animation 3D. Things like GI and caustics still have to be "baked" in, etc. Don't forget, extremely high quality 3D animation still has to be rendered on super-fast render farms housing dozens of dedicated high-end boxes. You just don't have this kind of power in a game console. It will take a LONG time for "real time" rendering to match the output of today's high quality raytrace engines.

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