As more and more PCs incorporate dual-core processors into their guts, game developers must rethink their design processes.
For years, developers were able to take advantage of faster and faster processors from Intel and Advanced Micro Devices. All they had to do was write their program once, and it would run faster and faster as Intel and AMD cranked up the clock speed.
But overheating forced chip companies to adopt designs with two or more processor cores running at slower speeds, which meant that some applications written to run on a single thread couldn't take advantage of that extra horsepower. This has required an entirely new way of looking at software development, prompting Intel this week to release another batch of software development tools aimed at helping developers make that transition.
Microsoft announced its financial results for Q3 of fiscal year 2026, including an update on its gaming Xbox business and more.
Not looking good. Hopefully Asha Sharma is able to turn Phil’s disaster around.
To me it's still quite remarkable how they can cash-in 5.3bn in revenue in a single quarter, since their hardware is basically dead.
The stock mark is what makes Microsoft remarkable, They have convinced every institutional and retail investor to just keep piling money into them. Like many big tech giants they are just a big growing pyramid scheme. As long as people keep dropping money into ETF's that cover the market Microsoft will always be liquid. At the same time it is completely stifling innovation and competition. People need to start being more discreet in how they invest their money as it's killing the system.
Riiiiight because people will just flock back to them for one or two games per year.
15+ years of bad performance is what they call irreparable in business. It is time for them to sell off the assets and get out of entertainment.
These declines are on the back of extra revenue received from releasing games like Forza horizon 5 on PlayStation. So I’m being sarcastic here when I said they should go back to exclusives. Killing off a revenue stream from Ps5 sales will only make things worse
Thanks to the slip-up of an artist working on the title, we now have more evidence that a new Injustice game is in the works.
Spiders: "We're going to cut straight to the chase so you're not left wondering: After a long period without clear answers, we have received confirmation that Spiders is being liquidated.
What does it mean? This means the company as a whole no longer exists. We'll cease our functions immediately. The planned DLC will release via Nacon, and then-- well, that's it.
We're sorry that it's come to this and would like to thank each and every one of you for your support over the years.
If you have any questions or run into issues with your games, please contact Nacon directly as we'll no longer be able to reply."
The sooner devs can learn to efficiently program multiple threads, the sooner the potential of the PS3 will be realized to the level that Sony marketing has led everyone to believe the machine is capable of.
And the sooner we'll have great Xbox games limited by only dev skills and not the full use of cores.
...or it won't and the sony fanboys will finally accept the fact that they've been had. again. anyone remember the "reality synthesizer" and "emotion engine"? yeah... ps2 was most powerful last gen too, if you believe sony.
Cosoles today rarely reach their full potential. Whatever happened to the PS2 and all the emotion engine/online claims early on?
See, "hardware technology" moves so fast that it sneaks up on developers, while they take their time year after year to develop a good game.(we know great games takes years to develop)
Companies these days are forces to abandon their consoles much earlier than anticipated. Especially when an old gen console grabs the highlight of their new one for like 2 years.(ps2 and PS3)
IMO Consoles should come out every 5-6 years, ensuring that its backwards compatible, then I will always get the latest tech. I gaurantee you Sony will be hard pressed when the Xbox 720, with Directx 12, Nvidia 12000GTX, 1 terabyte HD-ROMS, comes out.
That 10-12 year strategy just doesn't cut it these days with the speed of hardware technology. Sony is all talk and promises now, just like "PS2 Emotion Engine/Online Network claims" last gen, but will dance to the beat of a different tune sooner than later.(10+ years my @ss)
I love Competition..it pushes creative Hardware/Software development.
Microsoft needs Apple,
Snes needed Genesis.
EA sports needs 2K(bring 2k football back cause Madden needs some help)
and so on...
are you really sure that sony is lying about the ps3 take a look at all the tech demoes shown and the edge tools presentation some say that hevenly sword even looks better than in e3 05 dont let me mention motorstorm and that isnt even 5 months into ps3s lifecycle 180 is maxed out bill gates already said that Gears of War is what 180 was built for you can forget seeing a sequal for gears you can guarantee when killzone surpasses the trailer when they show it this year at e3 07 that will still only be the tip of the iceburg for the ps3 and not to mention even more games that have delivered in ps3s early lifecycle lets name one more formula 1, resistance and thats a launch title so many of you say that gears of war looks better than resistance but does it? Glitches of War is a very short game with very small worlds and very few people on screen and exeeded 180s power and thats all they could come up with resistance was only possible on the ps3 with more than 40 people on screen and so many physics that you dont really see but are happening just because of the unparalled power of the cell and have i mentioned that when developers start to syncronize the cell and rsx that is when ps3 will be on a completely different platue graphically with anything on the market today thanks to sony with the idea to put a supercomputer in the ps3 graphics will reach the 4d era on the ps3 hate if you want come up with as many reasons that it wont all you want to but the fact still remains that your brains are miniscule compared to the japanese and you will never understand the true genious behind this machine of the future 180 is a right now machine the ps3 is the machine of 2007-???? thank you for your time