I think that the graphics card manufacturers agree with the premise too, i.e. high end gpus might not be desirable or necessary for the majority of gamers in the near future. As evidence I take the recent push by nvidia on gpgpu (general purpose gpu programming), to create a market for high end gpus, starting with high end users (specialist, compute intensive software, e.g. scientific applications).
One day in the not-too-distant-future (3-5 years?), I'm sure that nvidia (probably amd too) wants to expand this niche market to the extent that a large percentage of personal computers will have a (gpu) co-processor for doing number crunching.
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I think that the graphics card manufacturers agree with the premise too, i.e. high end gpus might not be desirable or necessary for the majority of gamers in the near future. As evidence I take the recent push by nvidia on gpgpu (general purpose gpu programming), to create a market for high end gpus, starting with high end users (specialist, compute intensive software, e.g. scientific applications). One day in the not-too-distant-future (3-5 years?), I'm sure that nvidia (probably amd too) wants to expand this niche market to the extent that a large percentage of personal computers will have a (gpu) co-processor for doing number crunching.