XP killed the 8 bit apps. Vista is being coded so 16 bit apps won't function. So kiss every DOS game out there bye bye (save the ones with Causeway. Maybe). So many of the nifty new toys have been yanked that -this- piece of bloatware is pretty much nothing but XP with aeroglass and DRM to make Sony purr bolted on. And a lot of munchkin mobius security crap that the kiddies will have beaten before the thing goes gold that eats resources and is more kludge than careful design. As for DX-10...... Remember, airscouts, game makers are going to produce for the =installed= base, not the base at it will be maybe 2 years later and after they've gone tango uniform for assuming that people were going to run right out and get Vista cause Unca Billy said to. So far as games go, DX-9c rules until 10 either is ported to XP, or M$ gives away Vista and the hardware to run it on. They'll spend more time with the physics accelerator schemes coming out...