Quote Originally Posted by I Am Herenow
And I do want to use Vista, as there aren't going to be any XP-only games in future, after all.
You're going to base your choice of OS on Shadowrun and Halo 2? Even though there are easily available workarounds to run them on XP?

Nobody but Microsoft is going to be releasing Vista-exclusive titles. Why would anybody else bother? Adoption rate is so low, and the number of people who have DX10 software and DX10 hardware is vanishingly small. No publisher in his or her right mind is gonna cut off 90% of the market just to be forward-thinking.

Will the situation be different in three years? Heck yeah. But maybe not as different as all that. I have a feeling that Microsoft's fumble of Vista is going to mean DX9-compatible titles for a long time.