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.

Comments

How can it get worse?

[Qzukk]

first generation 360 titles will be single-threaded ... the initial PS3 games may be worse

They'll be half-threaded?

SDK tools?

[Red Flayer]

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

I told Sony over and over again that they'd better include an IDE with their SDK... they really dropped the ball on this one.