> -----Original Message----- > From: Vivec [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, July 25, 2005 7:39 PM > To: CF-Community > Subject: Gabe Newell- PS3 and XBox360, who's going to program them? > > He says that Out of Order Execution on an order of difficulty between > 1 and 10 is a 4. Now Multicore Programming is a 10. > > Others have said this before, but they weren't top game developers, > and those developers that have mentioned that the systems would be > difficult to program for have never stated it so candidly.
All true - this is exactly why the first crop of games for the 360 and PS3 will be as mediocre as the first crop of games for most systems has been. ;^) In this case I think we'll see, like we did with the PS2 early-days especially, a lot of games that rely on the sheer horse-power of the machines to make poor code run. The systems are just so powerful that even bad coders are going to make better looking games than the current generation - but it'll still be a while before teams like UbiSoft, Insomniac, Criterian and Naughty Dog really wow us. After a while we'll see teams digging deep into the iron (and blowing our socks off) while other teams will begin to leverage off-the-shelf middleware tools (like Source) to overcome the biggest hardware problems. I think the first generation 360 and PS3 games will pretty much ignore the multi-cores and throw everything at a single core and the graphic chips. But that's just my prediction. I'm also curious to see if porting between the consoles will be any easier this time out since all three systems are using some variation of the POWER instruction set (albeit very different implementations). Jim Davis ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Sams Teach Yourself Regular Expressions in 10 Minutes by Ben Forta http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=40 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:5:166331 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:5 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
