yeah but what I am saying is the gaming industry always creates games for the most average computer, not cutting edge, because they want to reach the widest audience. They then add in features/settings that can take advantage of higher end hardware. Now that multicore processors are the standard, and have been for a while you will see a shift in the minimum requirements for lots of games.
Will they require multi core? Mmm, hard to say, will it be near required or highly recommended, I am sure it will be.
I am sure most games that come out after the next 6 months at the very very least will need you to have a dual core CPU. I am the only gamer in my home, yet we have 4 computers. Mine is set up for gaming, the others are for web browsing, work, music etc. Basically your average, non-gamer user. 1 was bought 6 years ago and has a single core. The other 2, one was bought 9 months ago and came with a dual core CPU, the other was bought ~18 months ago, and came with dual core. They aren't gaming machines, they are just standard use machines.
I understand that is only because the companies that make these pre-built systems know that their users will most likely be doing several things at once, and probably not very efficiently either, but it is the standard right now to have atleast a dual core processor. Games companies are obviously utilising that because of the article in the first post, but the gamer generally has a system that is a cut above the rest because they need the extra power, so a tri or quad core is more of a standard for them.
I still think it will be atleast a couple of years before hex or greater core CPUs are properly utilised though
