MikeB on 30 November 2007
@ NJ5
but it is still to be proven that it's a good choice for programming games
Have you played Uncharted and Ratchet and Clank on a HDTV? I think such games should already be proof enough that it's not a bad choice.
In the past PC magazines and salesmen often claimed stereo sound and colors were only useful for playing games and maybe for very specialized people like graphic artists and musicians, a GUI was for people who couldn't type and such was claimed (neglecting the Amiga had a more powerful CLI and you could have various instances and other programs running simulteously). Nowadays people know better, but it's too late for the Amiga platform (in the 80s you could multitask between paint programs, word processors, spreadsheets, copy and paste text and images between them long before this became possible to do on a PC, but currently that's the standard, the Amiga was a great multimedia system way before Microsoft marketed the term with Windows 95 more than a decade later in 1996).
IMO take the comments from Microsoft millionairs like Gabe (Valve) with a grain of salt. They are used to sell crap like MSDOS (one of the most limited and flawed operating systems every released, they bought Quick and Dirty OS for a mere 25.000 USD from its programmer, which was actually a more limited direct ripp-off of CP/M as the source code shows) as the best thing since sliced bread.
