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Carmack talks Wii U, PlayStation Vita |
Listed in: News Tags: id Software, John Carmack, Nintendo, rage, Sony
id Software founder John Carmack has said his piece about everything from current generation HD consoles to cloud gaming. Now that we've seen a pair of new platforms from Sony and Nintendo at E3 2011, Carmack is ready to give his opinions on them.
The Wii U, Carmack told gaming news site GameSpot, is a good thing for id since "the technology level on there brings it up to parity with the other consoles." That opens the door for id to maybe bring Rage to the Wii U in the future, but Carmack says the decision could still be affected by whether or not they think there will be a market for the game on that particular console.
The Wii U's controller got a lot more face time than the actual console during Nintendo's press conference, and Carmack sees more potential in it that the motion controllers currently out in the market.
"I'm kind of excited about the touch-screen aspect on there," he said. "I think that probably has broader general utility for games than most of the motion control stuff, where you really have to design a game around motion control and you can't just tack it onto a finely crafted FPS. But I think the DS has really shown what the extra little touch screen can do--almost any game can do something useful with that."
Speaking of touch screens, Carmack also spoke about Sony's PlayStation Vita. While he admits he didn't get to sample the new handheld, he says it's a sign that Sony has learned a lot from the development barriers that clogged the PS3. "They're going to have you program for it like a console," he said, "so it's going to seem twice as powerful as a smartphone with the exact same chips in there."
The id founder thinks, however, that the new handheld may be in danger of being eclipsed by smartphones by the time it actually comes out. "By the time they actually ship, there may be smartphones or these tablets with twice as much power as what they're shipping with on there," he said. "And a year or two after that, it's going to look pretty pokey."
Carmack has said before that he believes the Vita, back when it was still known as the NGP, was a generation beyond most smartphones.
Via [GameSpot]
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personally, i see the vita and a smartphone as mutually exclusive. you will game on the vita and use the smartphone for everyday stuff.
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Maybe, in the future, tablets and smartphones will get buttons(not phone dialing and typing). But I doubt they will, since they really don't seem to care that much about that kind of thing.
tl;dr
GPU
Buttons
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But I still think his old statement is still valid...
it will "perform about a generation beyond smart phones with comparable specs."
I mean console like graphics means nothing when limited by touchscreen only control.
Using Bluetooth controller for tablet is a solution but it hinder the portability which is the main reason for getting a portable device =P
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