phil said:
Gabey-poo has a history of complaining about new technology. For example, before the current generation of consoles were even out, he was complaining about the fact that they were multi-cored: "Technologically, I think every game developer should be terrified of the next generation of processors. Your existing code, you can just throw it away." You don't have to throw the old code away, but it certainly won't be as fast as code that's optimized. This is how new technology works. He goes on to say that multi-core implementations are all doctoral theses and not practical. You can tell just by looking at what software is out and optimized for multi-core systems that this is a load of crap. The fact that he was complaining about it before he was even able to try and program for them further detracts from his credibility. It should also be noted that, since porting Orange Box was outsourced(to EA, I believe), he probably doesn't actually have experience programming on the PS3. Just because Valve puts out quality games like Half Life doesn't mean that their founder is bright. He probably hires bright people to do the work for him. As further evidence of this, please recall the keylogger/HL2 source leak fiasco. This sort of thing never happens to the likes of actually great programmers like John Carmack. |
Hey I don't know the guy but he seems pretty bright if his running a succesful company. You make it sound like bosses are idiots that hire smart people to do the work for them to make them seem smart. In the end he is just sharing his opinion like any forum poster but since we know who is unlike a forum poster I take it more seriously.
