re: Sony to block second hand games on PS4

I wasn't the one to bring up optimization, but it is a part of the whole picture. And when I say optimization I'm not talking about optimizing assembly code or anything myopic like that (though those types can be very valuable). The optimizations I'm talking about come mostly in the organizational category. And that makes sense, since games are heavily data-driven applications. Making a game fast and making rendering fast is a combination of 1000 little things and a couple dozen big things that help the hardware efficiently consume the app's data. Assumptions are what win you the most ms per frame. And on xbox and ps3 (more on ps3) you can make an order of magnitude more assumptions than you can on PC. And it will always mean that less powerful hardware can keep up with the more brute force power of a PC. And it will always be that way, unless we go back to the mid 90s where some games only worked on Voodoo cards and shite like that.

And no, I don't work at Zynga (and Zynga has a ton of brilliant devs, they just deal with a different class of problem). I work at a big company that you probably all love, but I won't name names... since I was planning on giving a couple of scoops this year (which is shaping up to be one of the biggest ever)

And if your gonna argue about with $15000 NVIDIA workstation being faster than consoles... then don't bother. That kind of tech is so advanced it isn't really gaming technology yet. And virtually no one (outside of work) owns one to play games on.