When will we see the next big graphics jump?

I remember the first time I played Star Wars Jedi Knight: Mysteries of the Sith back in 1997. Good game, but everything changed when I installed my Diamond Monster Voodoo1 4MB graphics card. Colored lighting made the game world look so beautiful and vivid. I marveled at the way a lightsaber bled its color onto a nearby wall, the way the near-miss of a speeding rocket would light the ground beneath it.
When will we see the next big graphics revolution? Physics cards really didn't seem to do it, and neither did Crysis. Both physics cards and Crysis did improve upon the way games look, but I have yet to see a jaw-dropping improvement. When do you guys think we will see something like that?

2009 is my guess. We will be like whoa

I don't think it will be like the jump the 8800 GTX offered over the 7800/7900 GTX. Looks like 9800 GTX will be G92 based, and will basically be a pumped up 8800 GTS (512).

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I'd wait to see what RV770 brings to the table this summer, as well as the first 'true' dx10 games.

When Nvidia gets some good competition and is forced to battle it out with ATI or some other Graphics Card (whoever that might be). Nvidia is at least not sitting still, they are improving efficiency and getting much better performance for the power required. Also they are bringing prices down. Other than Crysis, what game really needs more than a GTX or GTS512? I play everything I have cranked to the max besides Crysis.

My jaws dropped last weekend when my buddy ran his 3-way GTX SLI system at max res on a new ACER 24" 1920x1200 resolution screen. The biggest factor on this was he has DX10 on and ran at a HIGH resolution with all settings on.

I think people are getting carried away with these fast graphics cards that produce 100+ FPS on whatever resolution and you can't see a difference. Get a high res widescreen monitor running DX10 and then tell me what it looks like. The experience isn't always about the graphics card. There are other factors.

I wouldn't even worry about DX11 since people are only starting to jump on board with DX10. The newer cards seem to run better in DX10 plus you need Vista, which im not excited to go to yet. DX 11 will be a while.

Your right we haven't even got a native dx10 game yet. All 'dx10' games now started off in development as dx9 and had dx10 added later on. The summer should bring some nice surprises from ATI & Nvidia though. Weve seen high performance and high value cards come out in the 3870 and 8800gt, summer might show us the way to the $450 monster that blows away sli'd GTXs.

I believe it's waaay too early to be thinking about DX11, people are still in the transition phase of switching to DX10. Personally I don't think they will think about it until around Q3 of 2009.

I'm guessing about 70% of gamers haven't switched to dx10 yet either. I also agree with the above in the sense that too many people don't like vista, they don't want to switch from their beloved xp to get the graphic updates. (Myself being one of them.)