Physics cards?

When are they going to become standard components in computers?

They are going to change the way games are played--so why are game developers and hardware manufacturers taking their time with it?

I want to blow things to 80 bajillion pieces and particles, durn it. I want to flip tables over and shoot doors down with a shotgun. I want to jump into a ball pit without having to go to Chuck E. Cheese's.

Physics aren't a MUST, like graphics are, as graphics define the very world of games.


Let's just say it'll be a few more years before people will actually say: I MUST have a PPU, I Must, I Must..... 8)

Yeah, what the others said. I suspect it will be another 6-12 months before we know how sustainable a PPU will be. It takes a long time for developers to bring out a new game that would have the PhysX middleware fully integrated and used. DX10 may change that also, and we're waiting for ATI-AMD and nvidia to bring out their versions.

I hope one of the solutions really takes off myself, so that games get much better in the physics department. Pretty looking water, rocks, and faces are nice enough, but I want fully destructable environments and being able to interact with everthing in the game.