QuakeCon 2013: Carmack On Next-Gen Console Hardware

Posted by Soulskill on Friday August 2, 2013 @01:28AM from the developers-will-make-it-succeed-or-fail dept.

jones_supa writes "QuakeCon 2013 is running full tilt. John Carmack kicked off his speech by addressing the 'elephant in the room,' discussing the arrival of a new console generation to a crowd of attendees at the largely PC-focused event. He's optimistic about the coming console cycle, commenting that it's 'obviously going to be a good thing for gamers, developers, and an excellent thing for AMD.' John said he hasn't run quite enough tests on the hardware for the two consoles, but said they're both 'very close, and very good.' In his traditional long talk (watch on YouTube), Carmack also commented on Microsoft's always-on Kinect, its recently reversed DRM policies for the upcoming Xbox One, the death of optical media, and the state of handheld gaming."

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well then by slashmydots · 2013-08-02 02:04 · Score: 0, Troll

"He's optimistic about the coming console cycle, commenting that it's 'obviously going to be a good thing for gamers, developers, and an excellent thing for AMD"
Well then he's an idiot who lives in his own little fake reality because that sure as hell isn't what's happening.