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.

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'everyone' tells you, do they?

[Xarius]

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 wasn't aware that everyone had PS3 development kits. Development kits for a console that is nowhere complete yet.

Are you sure by "everyone", you don't mean "the fanboy gremlin that lives in my arse"?

And as these systems get more complex, the development is going to get harder. I am a Sony fanboy, buy I am interested in hearing about what it's like to develop for Nintendos new system. I'm not interested in hearing "omgz teh XBOX has best hax tools for game making!" or "stfu m$ noob, ps3 pwnz joo cell!".

How about some actual reporting, the last half of that summary was totally unneccessary.

Hmm.. this is the FA

[AzraelKans]

Dont bother clicking on the inquirer heres the entire article in full glory:

MICROSOFT'S VOLE DRAMA ARMY DROPPEDa bombshell today in a backhanded way.

During a talk on multithreaded programming, Microsoft used the three core, two thread per core Xbox360 as an example.

The bombshell was that the first generation of Xbox titles, all of them, are single threaded. Not good.

The INQ has gotten its hands on an Xbox360, yes, there is a Wal-Mart near us, and was completely underwhelmed by the quality of the games. Graphics quality was poor, and pixels were showing up blocky, ruining the wow-factor of the new console.

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.


Translation: We went to wall mart played the thing for 5 seconds then wrote an article based on that and 90% guessing, since the PS3 is also a hot item we speculated it will be worse. since well... Jeff from accounting say it will.

You know Zonk, next time you read "MICROSOFT'S VOLE DRAMA ARMY" as the source of the article, you probably shouldn't even read it, much less post it here.