Playstation 3 Fanboys: Please Stay In School

John Carmack — considered a programming god is most development circles — made a comment about the Playstation 3:

“I think the decision to use an asymmetric CPU by Sony was a wrong one. There are aspects that could make it a winning decision, but they’re not helpful to the developers.”

In response to this comment, the Playstation 3 fanboys over at ps3forums.com are upset. Here are some choice quotes:

“Maybe he is dumb and cant work well with the PS3 hardware…some comments of his are just so Xbot like. It mekes me sad because they are from a dev and devs should not bash a console.” — Nunalho

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“The industry has past him as he hasn’t put on anything decent in a long time. This is like a mechanic complaining that carburetors are the best way to manage fuel flow.” — Gbeav

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“Ya that clown who’s company makes crappy games and who’s engines have fallen from #1 to at least #3 behind Epic and Valve.” — Scuzzlebutt (ignoring the fact that id makes almost all of its revenue from licensing their engines to third parties)

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“It’s funny that he says that about the PS3. I bet if we all boy-cot all his software for the PS3 then he’ll be the one looking stupid. It seems to me that he’s pro X-BOT anyways.” — Morganator (who ignored the fact that if you boycott his software on Playstation 3, he’ll just find another platform to develop on)

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“He is worst than that guy complaining about the PS3 I think his name was RallyCar.” — gotti1914 (who decided to ignore every rule in the English language)

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“Another lazy programme who don’t want to learn. What he said is either SCE give me a complete game template, or we won’t bother to learn how to write games on PS3. Only took SCE internal programme 1 year to write software on PS3, that uses 4 SPU to play back SACD in 64bit floating point filter. Which even a Twin Core 2 Duo extreme PC can’t do. I always thought GDs are people who sale knowledge and skill. Looks like I am wrong, this guy is just a copy cat.” — hisame (who doesn’t know the difference between vector and raster graphics)

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“The software tools and middleware will only get better on the PS3, but the harware on the 360 is fixed.” — Scuzzlebutt (who delightfully ignored that the Playstation 3 hardware is also fixed)

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“i been saying this for years this guy talks out his BUTT. dont even listen to him. he is a moron………………….” — coolguy (who is, apparently, 2cool4skool)

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“He knows Sony made the right choice in taking an asymmetric CPU, but chooses to bash it, because it’s not easy for him to work with. STFU.” — Soviet635 (who just ignored John’s comment and decided to rant about something else)

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“Besides there a lots of dev that enjoy working with the PS3 hardware and are making great games.” — Nunalho (who failed to give a list of developers that actually enjoy the problems brought on by multi-threading and asymmetric computation)

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“LOL LOL… Man news4gamers is a tough site….. xbots run that site… tough crowd… go there at your own risk….” — r1000 (who failed to realize that news4gamers was just reposting news seen elsewhere)

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“He’s been spouting this ish since the begining, yet i don’t even know what game he’s making for PS3. He just better hope his game can hang with Sony first party titles or everything he just said won’t mean a damn thing.” — EvoLutioNight (who failed to realize that most of Sony’s first-party games have yet to break the 1 million sold mark)

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“The best way to write programme on SPU is to use grid masking filter. This type of programe will be thndering fast running on SPU. But no game programme know how to write prgramme like that. Because game programmers think in flow and logic. That’s too slow for PS3, on Cell you need to think in multi stream and flow control. Best way is to work on multi layer parallel filters and memory slice shift. Try to feed that to a programmer, took me 4 hours to explain how grid masking works to a comp science grad.” — hisame (who has leaped out of reality)

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“I say it’s time to stop giving these developpers easier tools to work with and let them program everything directly in asm. The more easier tools these devs get, the more lazy and bitchy they become.” — quito (whose head exploded upon seeing a 75,000 line Win32 program written in pure assembler, which only pops open a window that says “hello world”)

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“If he is so big and bright then why does he just sit around and talk smack? Why doesn’t he actually make any quality games or head any quality projects? Doom 3 made me laugh. As did Quake 4. You’re only as good as your last project and if those are any indications where ID is going then he really doesn’t have any room to talk. He’s doing exactly what he’s saying the Cell is. Lot’s of potential(smack talk) but nothing concrete to back it up. Carmack: show us that you can stop giving MS a reach around and we might actually listen.” – Organic_Shadow (who failed to realize id’s core business plan involves licensing the engine, not making games)

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“He was never one of the best in the business. He was a PC developer. He’s one of the more respected in the PC side. This is consoles we’re in. Reason I said he has little right. It’s like a Windows programer complaining why on his Wall street database programing job.” — kuku (who ignored the argument and started his own)
[tags]Playstation 3, John Carmack, Fanboys[/tags]