yeah it went something like that after each comment Carmack made.. its funny though seeing different reactions and change in opinions after each comment he made... its SW afterall...
Everything Carmack says makes perfect sense when put in the context that he's telling the hardware companies what he wants. He's calling MS out for not having enough disc space, and calling Sony out for not making their console easier to develop for. He used to do the exact same thing with Direct3D back in the day, until he was finally happy with it (he still doesn't use it, but MS' API design has increasingly affected GPU design over the past few cycles).
:lol: I noticed all of those, but never connected the dots. Well done. I'm starting to think Carmack would be better off just shutting up, at this rate he's gonna piss off everyone.
I still like Carmack, think he's brilliant and love his early work. But Doom3, Quake4 and Quake Wars...c'mon now.
It tickled me that he was one of the first legitimate sources to come out and say BluRay had given them an advantage to then almost in the same breath say the 360 hardware was superior and the only advantage the PS3 had was optical storage:lol:
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To be fair his issue was not with DVD format, but Microsoft's method of charging based on the number of DVD the game comes out on. If MS did not base charges on volume of DVD it would not be an issue for him. To me the bigger issue would be the fact that MS does not allow installs to be mandatory while you can do so with the PS3.
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