@24hourpartypal AMD (owns ATI) just released the HD7970 and it's a 600$USD part (check newegg.com). Pretty sure a console has never launched with best discrete graphics card due to their extreme price when they are first released.
@Liquidfingers Halo 2 came out on 11/9/04, so 2014 would be the 10 year anniversary (source: wikipedia). Also, Msoft confirmed at CES this year that the next Xbox won't appear at this E3 (use google to find articles).
Report: Next-gen Xbox to launch October/November 2013 with this GPU
Jan 25th 2012 8:21AM (Joystiq)Halo 4 beta invites are all fake (so far)
Jan 22nd 2012 11:58PM (Joystiq)