id Software’s development deity and parttime NASA employee John Carmack did an interview in the February issue of PC Gamer UK, due out today. He literally calls the Xbox 360 a “sweet development system” according to Xbox 360 Fanboy. There’s more than just praise though in the interview, and he is quoted as saying the following about both PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360:

They can quote these incredibly high numbers of giga-flops or tera-flops or whatever, but in reality, when you do a straightforward development process on them, they’re significantly slower than a modern high-end PC.

Guess that is why Quake 4 was running so lousy on X360 and the much more complex Call of Duty 2 ran silky smooth with much more action on screen. Perhaps John should tell his team to straighten out their straightforward development processes and get some next-gen power running.