Situations Where Next Gen Console Will Struggle/Shine?

Exactly, so I don't see what's so wrong about letting developers decide what they think/feel is the best solution between better graphics and the right amount of AA.

All in all, I think it really depends. In a game with a lot of effects going on (i.e. wind effects or smoke / haze or even DOF), it could reduce aliasing because the background gets blured already. We've already seen this done in some games current gen and with the floating-point potential CELL can give, I could see talented devs take this to the next level. Obviously GT3/4 kind of texture aliasing won't cut it, but with mipmapping finally being fully supported, texture aliasing should be much less of a problem.

 

Blurring textures (mip mapping) will only take you so far... We want detail, don't we?

 

Anti-Aliasing is a form of bluring as well.

 

ANTI-aliasing you mean? Not necessarily...... And definately not at mip-mapping levels of blurring obscenities. Anisotropic filtering anyone?

 

Sure you can get blurring, if you use Quincunx AA.

 

*shivers*