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id Software has always been one of the pillars of PC gaming, and co-founder John Carmack (DOOM, Quake, Wolfenstein 3D) is more or less the company's driving force and a standout industry figure. When he says he's not quite sure what to make of the current PC gaming scene, you can't help but take notice.

Traditionally the company has focused on PC development and bringing new technologies to the market through high-end, flashy games such as DOOM 3 and Quake III Arena. Since QuakeCon 2007, however, id made it obvious it was shifting its focus, claiming its new Tech 5 engine technology was designed with multiplatform gaming in mind. Quake Live for PC was also announced, an updated version of Quake III that's free to play and launched from a browser, a departure from the company's traditional type of products.

We recently had the opportunity to talk with Carmack over the phone, and he filled us in on where he sees id's role in the ever-changing console and PC markets. "While a high-end gaming PC is many times more powerful than current generation consoles and you could in theory do significantly greater things on it, the downsides of the platform are having to support multiple generations of different hardware [and] driver interface layers. I've got all sorts of details I could go into about comparative performance on the PC relative to the consoles on current id Tech 5 stuff but it comes down to developing games costs tens of millions of dollars now and the focus just has to be on the consoles where you've got the chance to move more millions of units there. The PC can at least still be profitably supported on there, but it'll be interesting to see if that continues to trend downward."
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What was their last HIGH-TECH PC exclusive? Doom III? Also on xbox. Quake 4? Also on 360. Help me out here, how is this news?
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What was their last HIGH-TECH PC exclusive? Doom III? Also on xbox. Quake 4? Also on 360. Help me out here, how is this news?
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What was their last HIGH-TECH PC exclusive? Doom III? Also on xbox. Quake 4? Also on 360. Help me out here, how is this news?
maybe letting people that do not know; know?

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maybe letting people that do not know; know?
kind of what I was thinking. I didnt know DOOM 3 ever made it onto consoles so I was just doing it for those people out there.
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Doom 4 for the Wii?!?!?! hahahaha
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Seeing as none of the consoles are making a profit except for the Wii (doesn't strike me as a market for Doom that one) and that the likelihood of a PS4 is extremely low.. For each generation they get dimishing returns and less sales.

I'd love to know which alternative market he's looking at. One thing is for sure, PCs will be there in ten years, in one form or the other. Consoles.. Maybe not.
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kind of what I was thinking. I didnt know DOOM 3 ever made it onto consoles so I was just doing it for those people out there.
It didn't just make it to the xbox, it had an exclusive co-op mode that apparently breathed a lot of life into the game.
So no, this isn't news.
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Which is also now on consoles.


I can see this changing though in 2 or 3 years when PCs are once again leaps and bounds ahead of consoles.
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Ok now I'm worried.....WTH
Then again everything they've made since Doom 3 has sucked.......Quake 4, ETQW....I tried REALLY hard to enjoy those games too.....they were just terrible.
They've also made plenty of games for the consoles, what gives? I don't understand why they're just saying this now? Does this mean that the PC version will be just an afterthought, and the engine will be designed with the console in mind?
If so then that sucks, and thanks a lot pirates for hurting the industry.......developers are being scared into console gaming's arms.
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