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non0score has already replied, but I can confirm as well (though I work with the Wii, not the PS3). I'm not that much of a graphics programmer but I'll give another example - memory usage. On the PC, nobody cares about memory. They have plenty of it, and they have it in one big easy-to-use heap. Not so on the Wii, here you have two different memory areas, which work completely different, so you have to decide how you use which. Or, you override the regular allocator and make guesses where the memory could be best placed. We're doing that for a big third-party library originally developed on the PC, and there really is a nearly 50% difference.

Xbox 360 runs big endian as well. The PowerPC processor can run in either big or little endian modes, but on all current consoles (XBox 360, PS3, Wii), they are configured in big endian mode.

And people seem to have a talent for making their computers slow in a way I cannot comprehend. My Athlonn 64 3700+ with 2GB RAM and a mediocre ATI X1600 has no problems running Vista fluidly, and no I didn't go in and disable half the services. Seriously, people, what the FUCK do you do to your computers?

... try getting a job in the computer game industry. Seriously. You'll be stressed alot, you'll do alot of overtime, but you cannot beat the job of a game programmer when it comes to (1) having fun (2) learning ALOT. Been doing it for a year, and I don't regret it at all.