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According to Carmack, DVD licensing fees become pretty bad when you get to 2 DVDs, and Blu-ray actually saves him a lot of money on large games, as well as enhances the quality due to less compression.  Thought it was sorta interesting.  In the interview he also once again complains about the Cell being inefficient, but functional.  He also mentions that Rage may have texture load issues if you don't have a Hard Drive on your 360 because he won't be able to use the HDD for backtexturing.   



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Sucks for core owners... :(



Naznatips! You're my hero, I am biggest fanboy of you.

Na just kidding!

Interesting so lets see - Xbox360 cheaper from a development perspective to achieve the same effects and the PS3 is cheaper from the perspective of using larger game assets such as textures etc?



Tease.

Squilliam said:
Naznatips! You're my hero, I am biggest fanboy of you.

Na just kidding!

Interesting so lets see - Xbox360 cheaper from a development perspective to achieve the same effects and the PS3 is cheaper from the perspective of using larger game assets such as textures etc?

 

Actually, he basically said it's cheaper to make less effects, but he believes the hardware to be superior because of the cost.



Wow, looks like MS is on its way to losing the developers. In the last couple of years it really seems to have been the good relationship between MS and 3rd parties that has helped them the most, and now their pricing policies seem to be getting in the way.



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Sounds like Carmack has been busy over the last few days.



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Yay for Carmack. The newest "industry guy" that we'll have to hear from OVER and OVER and OVER. This is going to be painful. Please, everyone stop quoting what he says. I'm warning you...



 

 

omg this from the mouth one of the biggest microsoft suppporters...
*look outside looking for flying pigs*



MontanaHatchet said:
Yay for Carmack. The newest "industry guy" that we'll have to hear from OVER and OVER and OVER. This is going to be painful. Please, everyone stop quoting what he says. I'm warning you...

QuakeCon.

 

 



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