@MikeB
I just pointed out it can be fun, game development can be fun, game engine development from scratch can be fun. There are enough demosceners out there who would like to make a job out of their hobby.
The devs behind Max Payne for instance also made a cool award winning Amiga demo back in 2001 using old 1992 AGA technology. It seems they like to code for fun as well.
Still hobbies != work , just having fun => no money, having fun while working => better job, but it still when you work you must get paid. Whatever you throw at me you can't null the fact that work means that you get paid too.
There's still plenty of talent out there. It's however true many schools nowadays are doing a bad job (maybe they get their computers and class material from Microsoft for free).
This shows how biased and paranoia you are. Behind every corner theres a bad MS guy lurking and waiting for opportunity to strike... :D
Anyway, I actually asked is there anything about heterogeneous platforms in parallel computing course and answer was that nearest we get is CUDA programming, because theres no indication that heterogeneous platforms will be back. Somehow you seem certain that they will take over the world soon. Afaik theres no indication about that happening.
The options are too many to name, it ranges from being able to have more action on screen to better artificial intelligence, from better graphics in a very broad sense to having otherwise too demanding OS background functionality.
Show me game that uses SPUs for most of its AI. As far I have seen games that use poor PPU only for AI. Why it should use mostly SPUs? Because that was the source of power of PS3. X360 has 3xPPU, which is a bit more than one PPU. And more action on the screen? Humm... I just made point about that one in other thread. Graphics... It might have slight advantage, but its still slight. :)
Btw, how much you get paid for defending SONY? In the end MS & SONY are just companies, which try to make money, which don't care a squat about you or any of their fans as long as they just get money.
