Technology that is released before it exists?

http://www.crysisdemo.com/crysis-system-requirements.htm

As many know, Crysis needs an extremely powerful computer to play on High settings. As many also know when the Game was released in 2007 that most retail computers were incapable of running the game smoothly. I recently have played Crysis and found to my dismay my Laptop couldn’t run the game with High Settings even though my Laptop exceeded the official recommended requirements posted in the link. Usually when the recommended requirements are met the game should run beautifully, that is not the case with Crysis. I then tried to play the game with High Settings on my Desktop and to my surprise ran the game without trouble. I think Crysis is a game to supports the idea that “the future is here just not evenly distributed”. Most retail computers didn;t have the graphics card that Crysis demanded two years ago. The recommended graphics card at the time costed over $500, but needless to say it didn’t mean the required hardware wasn’t there. Even then the buyer would have to install the card manually. My computer could run the game effortlessly because it was custom built. It was a quad core,  4 GBs of RAM and most importantly had a Geforce 9800 GTX graphics card. Even today no retail computer contain that card. The closest I’ve seen is a 9600 card and that was on a Dell XPS Gaming computer. I built my computer 7 months ago and costed $2000 with a monitor. The forementioned Dell XPS computer costs around $1000 with montior and has 9 GBs of RAM. In a 7 month gap the retail models have almost caught up to my custom computer. But 7 months ago the same Dell computer would have costed as much as my computer and be lesser in quantity. Which shows at anytime there is always more advanced technology out there but they are harder to find and definately will cost more. Also, this wasn’t the first game that seemed to be advanced for it’s time, Doom 3 back in 2003 also created the same situation. That is the society that we live in. When a new model comes out, the models from the previous years undergo price slashes to make room for the new models. Computers, TV, cars, etc all follow this pattern. The choice to pay more or less is up the buyer. And still to most computer hunters in   retail stores, my computer still doesn’t exist yet.