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Originally Posted by Butcher
Who cares? The PC market is tiny compared to consoles and has slimmer margins anyway. Further marginalizing your target isn't going to get you any more profit. PC game makers will only bother with SMP support once it becomes economical, which it isn't. Especially since you can run a single processor game on a SMP box.
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They aren't reworking them for the PC market. They are reworking them for the entirety of the market. ALL next gen platforms at multi-processor. ALL. Every one. The PC is merely along for the ride as far as games are concerned.
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Your source on this? At least 50% of games are made cheap and quick and as long as it works and is reasonably on time and in budget they don't care. Reworking game engines is very expensive and not something people do lightly.
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At least 100% of games are made off of game engines. The vast majority of these engines are either bought as a resource or designed internally but shared across many design teams.