Common fact it is. There are games now that on full video settings can not be run on any computer....well at least it was the case with Doom 3 when it came out. Then again you have to rethink the words "any computer" . There are flight simulators that use a huge amount of processing power and yet they do exist and pilots use them. It comes down to your budget. If you get yourselves some Alienware PC with dual core 4Ghz and 2 GeForce 7800 GTX in SLI then you can run pretty much anything. However if your PC costs more than your car something's definately wrong. I recently was carefully shopping for prices on my new PC and it all came down to 1300 euro and a broken motherboard. And that's just for a system that barely scratches the high-end standard. When will it be the other way around? When will the average Joe be able to buy a PC for around $700 and play the best looking game on the market without any twitching? Businessmen, hellooo! Stop making so much money of us poor people!