Gabe Newell says the PS3 is a waste of everybody's time

[phil]

LingLing said:

phil said:

"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.

I say you CAN throw your existing code away (look at my longer post above). It's not just not as fast as optimized code, it's slow as hell and thus unusable.

Just boot a Yellow Dog linux on your PS3 and experience the slowness of unoptimized code. Even on a Pentium II it will boot and run programs faster.

@elnino:

I think you're perfectly right, the consumer is only interested in when a game is released and nothing else. But this thread is apparently being read by quite a number of software developers and for them it's an interesting topic.

The problem is that quote from Newell wasn't in reference to the PS3, it was in reference to multi core processors in general.  If you throw code you ran on a P4 onto a Core2Duo, it will run just as fast, if not faster.