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Ah yes, some nice little bits of happiness and joy for me, which i pass on to you:



As one of the innovators who created the first-person shooter genre 15 years ago, Carmack is widely recognized as one of the most talented programmers in the world. Monday evening, he became the first individual game designer to be awarded a technology and engineering Emmy in a ceremony at CES. As the programming whiz kid of id, Carmack did things with 286 processors that no one believed possible.

Carmack has worked with the new game consoles enough to deliver some expert commentary on each.

"The 360 is a fabulous machine to work on," he says. In particular, "graphics programming is a blast. Microsoft has done a great job with all of their developer-support tools." PlayStation 3 has "tons of power," but "is not as easy to develop for.... Sony's not as good at the developer-support part of things as Microsoft is. I know people in the office (who got) PS3 development kits and (said) they're twice as (expensive), but they're half as capable.

"It's not a bad console; it's certainly far better than everything else except maybe the Xbox 360. In an ideal world PlayStation 3 will be more powerful, but for the vast majority of the cases, you'll be able to effectively exploit more power from the 360."

From the article: WIRED News