All I want to see is the intelligent deployment of tessellation. It's pretty silly that the tessellation we've seen pretty much kills off even medium end GPUs, even from the sponsoring vendor in the process. Perhaps tessellation needs to be a feature with either optional settings (high/medium/low) or it needs to be tied to another setting like general surface geometry. Either way, DX11 maxed out + high resolution texture pack Crysis 2 with tessellation @ 1280 x 720 but no AA should've been doable on lets say, a GTS 450 1 GB with good framerate. I honestly don't know how the GTS 450 performs at said settings, but my general assumption is that it is going to struggle once you turn on the tessellation.
Big thing is that there are too many medium or low end DX11 GPUs out there that are not getting the love they should, though they should be quite reasonable at 720p. I understand 80/160 SP Radeons and 16/32 Core Geforces are long in the tooth, and should be seen as such, it seems to me that both vendors have forgotten about that sweet spot filled with the "medium-low" end GPUs like the 400/480 SP Radeons and 48-96 Core Geforces across the past few generations. This level of performance is available in many notebooks, is cheaply available in dedicated desktop cards, AMD Llano APUs, and I think there is too much focus on the top end as far as game optimization and performance goes. I don't mind the idea of selling alot of top end GPUs, but there are so many more medium end GPUs out there, and in more products that consumers actually see as reasonably priced.