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kryogenix
Gabe Newell, head of Valve (the company that brings us Half-Life), speaks out on the next gen consoles.

http://www.next-gen.biz/index.php?option=c...id=510&Itemid=2

Some good quotes:

QUOTE(Gabe Newell)
The amount of time it takes to get a good multicore engine running, the Xbox 360 might not even be on the market any longer. That should scare the crap out of everybody.


QUOTE(Gabe Newell)
If writing in-order code [in terms of difficulty] is a one and writing out-of-order code is a four, then writing multicore code is a 10.


QUOTE(Gabe Newell)
Statements about 'Oh, the PS3 is going to be twice as fast as an Xbox 360' are totally meaningless . It means nothing. It's surprising that game customers don't realize how it treats them like idiots. The assumption is that you're going to swallow that kind of system, when in fact there's no code that has been run on both of those architectures that is anything close to a realistic proxy for game performance. So to make a statement like that, I'm worried for the customers. And that we view customers as complete morons that will never catch on and that we're lying to them all the time. That's a problem because in the long run, it will have an impact on our sales.


Thoughts? Are you less excited about the "OMG PS3 IS A BAJILLION TIMES FASTER THAN PS2" claims?
RiC3xBoy
Absolutely not, saw the demo of FFVII on the PS3 and doesn't even look close to even three times the power of the PS2.
ThunderEvermore
I read these quotes in my latest issue of GamePro. It confirms some rising suspicions that the console developers have been lying to us about processing power and the like.

It makes me wonder what kind of processor the Revolution will have.
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