Just like Crysis still isn't one of the best looking games out there, and that came out in 2007... Sorry, doesn't seem things are moving that far forward, or really can't without literally becoming real.
And I agree, down with consolized shit, look at the new Crysis, it's been nuetered, I want to see more game that push my hardware. I hear everyone crying about how games don't look good anymore, and how consoles ruined it. And now we have a game thats going to look awesome, and hopefully push hardware, and we have people complaining on a tech forum where this is our type of thing.
Why do people over dramatize things? My friend bought a 5770 when BC2 came out, it was $140, and he plays with mostly high and some mixed in medium settings. I would expect a single 5850 to perform similar to that in BF3. Maxed out with Max AA, Max AF, SSAO on, is a lot diff than running med/max, and honestly the graphical difference isn't huge, don't need max AA with a high res, don't really need SSAO. But if you can push it, why not?