John Carmack Discusses 360's Edge, Considers DS

Via a Gamasutra post, John Carmack's comments on upcoming id choices. Game|Life has a few quick comments on Carmack's hope to bring Orcs and Elves to the DS. This would be id's first game on a Nintendo platform in some time. Likewise, he makes it clear that he considers the 360 the dev platform of choice due to the ease of development on the console. From the article: "the honest truth is that Microsoft dev tools are so much better than Sony's. We expect to keep in mind the issues of bringing this up on the PlayStation 3. But we're not going to do much until we're at the point where we need to bring it up to spec on the PlayStation 3. We'll probably do that two or three times during the major development schedule. It's not something we're going to try and keep in-step with us. None of my opinions have really changed on that. I think the decision to use an asymmetric CPU by Sony was a wrong one."

Comments

Re:Carmack?

[Evangelion]

Nope, Carmack was just responsible for Doom... Doom II... Quake... Quake III... Quake III... Doom III...

You're after Romero's head. And not the one in map30.

Re:Carmack?

[BrainInAJar]

that's John Romero you dumb twat

Ouch...

[PurifyYourMind]

I think the decision to use an asymmetric CPU by Sony was a wrong one.

Oooh,*burn*!

Re:Ouch...

[Saint_Waldo]

GI: When you were talking about adding more resources into the parallel development, do you feel that goes against Microsoft's XNA platform? Microsoft's spiel was that you used to spend 80% on problems and 20% on creativity.

Carmack: Yeah, that's all bull****.

Oooh,*burn*!

Re:odd

[MustardMan]

Most americans who see VB also say "wtf are they doing it this way for?".

Re:odd

[bigman2003]

And with a funny accent.

Re:... PS3 fanboys dismiss Carmack as "moron".

[Stormie]

All the PS3 fanboys are bashing Carmack for his comments about Cell, despite the fact that it's quite clear none of them program at all, let alone program on asymmetric CPUs.

Don't worry, all the PS2 and PS3 programmers I've worked with have had nothing but contempt for Carmack for many years. Just another PC programmer who thinks he's hot stuff.

Re:Carmack?

[Chris Burke]

oremor nhoj em llik tsum uoy emag eht niw ot

Doom on the Wii

[Heir Of The Mess]

I wonder if they would do Doom for Wii so that I can really jump around and smash my wiimote into things it's never smashed into before.

Re:... PS3 fanboys dismiss Carmack as "moron".

[blitzcat]

Sony fanboys : the new mac zealots. The ps3 is better because it _is_.

Re:... PS3 fanboys dismiss Carmack as "moron".

[Anonymous Coward]

Why would you even post that link? It's credence as a valid criticism is next to nil. I shall, however, endulge you. Let's, if not just for the sake of our own amusement, compare and contrast these two starkly opposing views.

John Carmack:

• Has had multiple cover pages and articles alike dedicated to him and his gaming work; he is praised as being one of the most influential men in technology (specifically with respect to gaming) to date.
• By his own admission and hobby projects, IS a rocket scientist.
• Is, most importantly, responsible for multiple game engines, each of which having been applauded as innovative breakthroughs. His hacks and his trickery are still viewed with almost religious wonder by today's gaming industry developers.

ps3forums.com posters:

• Gaming industry heavyweight "Nunalho" from Lisbon, Portugal touts a Dragonball Z avatar and an extensive collection of Final Fantasy fanart. Wicked cool, but no amount of senzu beans or super saiyawhatevers is going to save you from the truth.
• Poster "Gbeav" is quoted as having made the following criticism of Carmack: "He is a x86 programming guy. The industry has past him as he hasn't put on anything decent in a long time. This is like a mechanic complaining that carburetors are the best way to manage fuel flow." Well, Gbeav, I'm sure you're completely qualified and elected to speak on behalf of the whole gaming industry in declaring John having been "past"(sic) by. Additionally, your car analogy. The only way your little critical dit on John could have been worse would have been if you called him Hitler, gay, or both.
• Ooops! Spoke too soon! Six-time Jeopardy champion "Tetsu" has that one covered, too! "If he wants to be Bill Gates' boyfriend, it's a free country, but between that and him producing six hour Half Life "episodes" for $20 or so, I think he knows what he can do with that.". I'm finding that this "ps3forums" reads more like a $1.99 tabloid and less like an Internet forum. Sheesh.
• "Morganator" runs up and hits this grand slam: "It's funny that he says that about the PS3. I bet if we all boy-cot all his software for the PS3 then he'll be the one looking stupid. It seems to me that he's pro X-BOT anyways." No, John Carmack will be the one looking stupid when he, uh, isn't a renowned developer whose pastimes "casually" include rocket science. Oh, shoot, got you there too.
• Seraphus Y needs to wake up and realise that garbage like (his post), "I couldn't agree more. John Carmack needs to wake up and realise that we've moved on from the i386 computers." is not only a ridiculously common platitude heard Internet-wide, but also mind-numbingly stupid.

Shit, guys, draw your own conclusions here.

Re:... PS3 fanboys dismiss Carmack as "moron".

[gamer4Life]

...but does Carmack have a 3-digit Slashdot ID?

Re:Well...

[indifferent children]

Neither Q4 nor HL2 can hold a candle to Duke Nukem Forever. It is simply, hands-down, the most amazing game that you are never going to see.