As an indie game developer I'm actually very excited about it. Several games go CPU bound during active moments. And almost all modern 3D games are very taxing on the hardware. Multicore has been the law of the land for video for the past several years. With some nvidia cards nowadays having over 200 cores.
Writing shaders for these cards is a pleasure, and I can't wait to see what comes out of more and more machines being multi-proc.
I think this need will spawn better threading support over time. We still have crazy schemes like apaches MPM-Worker model where you get a mix of several processes and threads at the same time. I'd like to see better adoption of things like green-threads, where they seem to all be in the same process, but are actually distributed over cores. But of course someone will have to have some breakthrough idea with shared memory to pull that off.
Near term: It's not a big deal unless you're crushing your processor
Long term: Better get comfy with locks :)
