{"id":13572,"date":"2011-08-21T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-08-21T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"carmack-says-it-was-a-mistake-to-treat-pc-and-console-as-equals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/13572-carmack-says-it-was-a-mistake-to-treat-pc-and-console-as-equals","title":{"rendered":"Carmack says it was a mistake to treat PC and console as equals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As much as the bickering platform fanboys get tiresome, they do make up about 90% of our community &ndash; so every now and then you&rsquo;ve just got to throw them a bone to scrap over.<\/p>\n<p>Legendary programmer John Carmack is certainly not one to mince his words &ndash; always delivering his opinion with a healthy dose of brutal honesty.<\/p>\n<p>The man is at it again, saying it was a huge mistake to treat consoles and PCs as similarly capable. Talking to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/feature\/6461\/carmack_on_rage.php?page=3\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Gamasutra\">Gamasutra<\/a>, Carmack said, &ldquo;What I look back on as one of the biggest mistakes I made in this generation, was at the beginning, five or six years ago, looking and saying, &lsquo;Consoles are basically as good as PCs,&rsquo; at the time, and developing the workflow so it worked across both of them.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Talking specifically about RAGE and it&rsquo;s multi-platform development, Carmack goes on, &ldquo;Looking back now, we have PCs that are an order of magnitude more powerful, and if our workflow is instead focused on explicitly on just&hellip; you build and develop on the PC, and you decimate things into a target for the consoles.&rdquo;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Riles up the fanboys again<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":165,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/165"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13572\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}