John Carmack on GPUs, Xbox 360, PS3

August 16th 2005 | Games Consoles

John Carmack on GPUs, Xbox 360, PS3

Ever the PC guy, Carmack observed that the upcoming generation of game consoles looks to be very powerful, but said that PCs will, of course, be much more powerful than these consoles thanks to PC hardware’s rate of progress.

The quintessential PC game programmer then dropped a bit of a bombshell by announcing that he had recently moved his primary development efforts over to the Xbox 360, and that he expected to continue development there for the next six months.. ..As for the PS3, he liked sound of the noises Sony has been making about the PlayStation 3 as something of an open platform, and suggested that perhaps an open PS3 could become a computing platform something like the Amiga of old, with an excellent, fixed graphics subsystem.

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John Carmack on GPUs, Xbox 360, PS3
Published in: Games Consoles on 2005-08-16