The next gen games are afoot: Microsoft snags top Sun engineer.

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JaggedSac said:

Millennium said:

JaggedSac said:

Millennium said:
Sun makes many things, but if Microsoft is hiring people away from them then it's probably to work on either the operating system or the .NET platform, not games. If they want to get game programmers, they'll hire them away from game developers, and Sun isn't one of those.

No one said he was going to be a games programmer.

The title of this thread does.

No it doesn't.  Games is referring to the competition between whomever is involved in the next generation of video games.  At least that is my interpretation.

 

That's my interpretation too. But games have been afoot for a while now. For example, Intel and Sony evaluating the possibility of a Larrabbee-based GPU for the next Playstation is at least 4 months old.

My take is that this guy will work on the toolchain: devkits, compiler optimization for multicore architecture etc.

At Sun they probably have worked quite a lot on those for their Niagara-based machines. If IBM's aquisition really happens, once again MS and Sony will work with not-so-different ingredients, because I suppose that some of the same technology will trickle down the Cell line.