Carmack talks future console technology
Wants long cycle for current-gen
id Software supremo John Carmack has been talking about the direction of future technologies (thanks Digital Foundry), the game maker stating that he hopes the current generation of gaming hardware proves a long one.
"We talk about these absurd things like how many teraflops of processing and memory that are going into our game machines. It's great and there's going to be at least another generation like that, although interestingly we are coasting towards some fundamental physical limits on things. We've already hit the megahertz wall and eventually there's going to be a power density wall from which you won't get more processing out there," John Carmack explained.
The id Software big boss says that he is very happy working with the current generation of technology, and wants it to last.
"As developers, we would really like to see this generation stretch as long as possible. We'd like to see it be quite a few more years before the next gen console comes out, but I suspect one will end up shipping something earlier rather than later."
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