At this point, since we don't know the system requirements, I won't try to speculate on what sort of of hardware you'd need to play Skyrim. What Bethesda has described so far sounds impressive, especially the dynamic snowfall thing, but how hard it will be on computers will probably depend a lot on how well the game is optimized. In any case, I wouldn't recommend trying to upgrade for Skyrim when we don't know the system requirements, so I'd say that worrying about it now is unnecessary.



I'd say you're probably right on that, obviously, individual snow-flakes aren't going to actually accumulate, but through use of some graphical tricks, I'd imagine one could create a pretty good looking illusion, which is likely what we're getting here. It sounds much more impressive if you make it sound like you have actual physically simulated snow, though, which may be why it's put in a way that led people to think that.