Carmack: Console Dominance

Chris Kruger

In an interview with John Carmack from id Software on PC Perspective he acknowledges the importance of consoles in the current epoch of games development.

Carmack said, "From a developer stand point the uncomfortable truth is that the console capabilities really dominate development decisions today. If you look at current titles and how they're done on the console, you know, high end action GPU based things, the consoles are so the dominant factor that it's difficult to set things up so that you can do much to leverage the really extreme high end desktop capabilities."

Traditionally id Software have been predominately a PC game development house, but their latest technology pipeline, known as id Tech 6, is capable of targeting a wide range of platforms out of the box (so to speak).