Quote Originally Posted by Frank M View Post
? Are you out of your mind? Optimizing costs resources, that's why
publishers don't like it. It's like rounding out a square. But if you like
non-optimized games, enjoy your square wheels instead of round
ones. It's got nothing to do with progress, it's just negligence.
What you are saying is that you want a application to be optimized for Core 2. I think that developers at rockstar likes to develop, they don't like to create crappy code just so that it works on a processor that sucks when it comes to real scaling. The problem with Core 2 is that it is bad when threads are sharing memory and I doesn't like to work with ram. The PS3 is a bandwidth monster so it is the opposite.
It is vital to keep programmers to like their job if you want good code from them. Kill the spirit by forcing them to create code that isn't as fun to do and you will get a poor result. It is much more fun to create new functionality compare to do rewrites.
I think a lot of good developers have waited for Intel to release the i7 and increased market share for that type of processor that scales well is very welcome (Phenom is the same type of processor). You will see a lot more applications that is taking advantage of threads then.