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First-Gen Xbox 360 Games Single-Threaded?
Scott Gualco wrote to mention a report at The Inquirer indicating that, despite the 360 itself being capable of multi-threading, first generation 360 titles will be single-threaded. From the article: "Every new machine has a nasty first set of games as the programmers work up to speed on the hardware. In this case, the up side is that there is about 6x the CPU power available and coming to a console near you in the second generation of games. The scary part is that everyone tells me that the PS3 is harder to program for than the Xbox360, and the tools are nowhere near the quality of Microsoft's. That means that even with an extra six months of design time, the initial PS3 games may be worse." Commentary available at Joystiq.
"it can integrate with Visual Studio if you want. "
Uh, Eclipse. Why the fuck would someone willing use Visual Studio when they don't have to.
"ProDG gives them a good debugger (the PS2 one was, at least),"
I'm sorry, that is just an idiotic comment to make. You sound like you were one of those sad teams trying to do PS2 development with Visual Studio and the SN garbage. Fucking sad. The SN crap was bad like bad Windows shareware. This is the one area were Sony did blow it for tools. It's too bad they didn't bite the bullet and overcome the politics involved and gone with the gold standard Metrowerks console tools.