Your avatar seems smart, i believe you :)

This may have been asked but oh well...Is the "Power of the Cloud" the new Blast processing?

What's the best way in starting a small indie studio? I have some friends that are taking classes and how much money does it take to make smaller games.

Any other advice would be nice.

Thank you

Tell me, when you play PS3 or Xbox 360 games, do you judge if the game youre playing is great based on how many shaders the console has? and if you do why do you consistently badmouth the WiiU which has more than both of those consoles?

Clearly, great games has nothing to do with shader count then, you just disagree because you don't want to accept anything positive regarding the WiiU as indicative of browsing your post history.

A bit of both, more logical SDK functions and more straight forward architecture (not just ram configuration, either).

1) It remains to be seen how effective cross device play will be, while the idea is cool its up to the designers to take in to account the different input methods and button configuration and best use these to make a game enjoyable across different systems, in the longrun the interaction between devices will help to boost the Vita but only proportionally to the success of the Playstation 4.

2) From a games developers perspective, it doesnt change much on our end, ultimately the creation of steam boxes with different hardware configurations just gives us a narrower hardware pool to aim for, but as we need to program for everyone else too what you will end up seeing is steam specific patches for steambox hardware to resolve issues found specifically on their boxes, it wont be the revolution many believe, just as pre-built gaming PCs dont make much of a dent in the industry - there will always be people who want to build their own systems regardless of if the final spec is lower or higher than a steambox relative to price, and as long as that pool of users is larger than the steambox community (more or less a garuntee) standard pc gamers have nothing to fear.

3) I dont have any information regarding Nintendo first party software at this time, not because of NDA but because i just do not know.

Depends on what we want to do, VS, GCC, Open64, SDK provided custom compilers, and of course when we want to push something not usually done, we sometimes write our own, we used to use stuff like codewarrior in the early days but not so much anymore.

Blender or Milkshape, I have heard good things about Daz3D studio pro too, which is also free.

You don't, to put it bluntly, you are of course free to believe what you wish, as stated in the OP, as long as you do so in a civil manner.

The threads purpose is to do Q and A, within logical boundaries, theres a lot people wish to know, if you already knew the answers to most of the questions then feel free to ask your own and I will do my best, within reason, to answer them.

Simply coming forward and stating a list of borderline NDA breaking questions and answers however yields nothing but skepticism and risk, doing so benefits nobody.

1) More recent over the past year and going forward, but as far back as the MD and SNES, it can range from basic incentive to give a title a key roll in an event or to calculate revenue based on performance, for example if a game launches on one system, at launch, then it will get sales relative to that consoles performance, as people generally lean more towards exclusives upon launch than multi platform, as buying a multi platform title at launch does less to justify your purchase. In that case if owners of the other system are suddenly given the opportunity to play the once exclusive title, even if those users had downplayed the title on forums and chatrooms worldwide, they would still buy it, and in the end total sales would be higher than launching on both systems at the same time.

Of course, theres times when blackouts are done to give the console itself more of a sales advantage, but i cant go in to that.

2)Simply a personal statement, im sure people around me mostly feel the same, but the ones whos pockets are being lined directly by such occurances are sure to disagree.

3) Multiple titles, not all of them are launch titles, and it isnt just one company doing it.

Doesnt matter if youre indie or signed with a major publisher, youre just as relivant to the topic as I or anyone else in the industry is.

I am going to skip the first question based on the way it was asked.

Starting an indie studio is only as easy, hard, cheap or expensive as those you choose to start it with. If you begin with a group of skilled people willing to work for free to get a sellable game released, on the premise that they would see a financial return upon completion, then its not so hard.

If however you find a bunch of mediocre employees who wont lift a finger until they see the green, then obviously its not going to be very easy.

How you market and approach revenue streams also directly effects how well the company does as a whole.

In one of the previous posts you said WiiU has between 150 and 200...doesn't 360 have 48x5 for 240? Not that I think that WiiU is weaker than PS360, but curious to learn which one it is.

Oh, and thanks for answering my previous question about Cerny and unified memory...

That's such a slap in the face of the fanboys of both (all) sides that is impossibe no to laugh.

What do you think, will that be much different with Steam-machines?

Yeah, we already established in another thread, that he has no idea about programming and has diffuse knowledge about tech. He couldn't present me code to  a problem until today (specifically he avoided the thread after I asked him for that although he was extremely active in the thread before). So @all: simply assume fatslob is wrong if he talks about tech, that is a good rule of thumb that will work in most cases. His miss regarding 'sub-optimal design-choices' was another funny one, as he couldn't understand the design-choice-part he had interpreted the sub-optimal in regards to performance.

This was obvoius right from the start, I thought?

360 has 48 shaders split into 5 vector vector units per shader, the wiiu is split differently, I can give the exact numbers but its higher than the 48 on the 360. This is of course comparing shader units and NOT ALU.

if you develop the same game on xbone and ps4 which is easier to develop better graphics quality and in what ways