Quote Originally Posted by Papewaio
Nope, the next generation will have powerful physics cards, so instead of 10 or a 100 objects on screen that you can interact with, there will be 10,000 or 100,000 objects you can interact with...

The graphics card say what the object looks like.

The physics card says how it moves/interacts/blows up.
They are developing physics processors/cards for PCs, it's only a matter of time before the games start allowing them to accelerate with the hardware. AGEAI is one of the first, here's an article from ExtremeTech from E3:
http://www.extremetech.com/article2/...1817922,00.asp