While you, me, and everybody else on the planet is lining up for the midnight launch of next generation of consoles, John Carmack will apparently be at home, playing DOOM or writing a new engine or something. He doesn’t think we need a next generation of consoles just yet.
“When people ask how tapped out is the current console generation, PCs are 10 times as powerful but you really are still not technically limited,” he told GamesIndustry. “Any creative vision that a designer could come up with, we can do a pretty good job representing on current generation and certainly on PC. In many ways I am not all that excited about the next generation.”
According to the id Software tech wizard genius, next generation consoles will “do everything we want to do now, with the knobs turned up”, and that’s nothing special really.
“If you take a current game like Halo which is a 30 hertz game at 720p; if you run that at 1080p, 60 frames with high dynamic frame buffers, all of a sudden you’ve sucked up all the power you have in the next-generation,” he said. “It will be what we already have, but a lot better. You will be able to redesign with a focus on D11, but it will not really change anyone’s world.”
The man has spoken, but will the people hear? Probably not. Besides, everything will be so pretty.
John Carmack playing with… wait, what the hell is that?
Source: GamesIndustry
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Is his company getting their income from creating game engines and then selling them to other development companies ? Because they make so few games it’s hard to imagine that being the reason they are still afloat.