PG: Do you think that hardware is increasing too fast for software developers to cope with?
Viet-Tam: No. In many cases, however, software developers aren't forward-looking enough. As I said about Quake2, software should, or should be able to, push beyond the limits of current hardware. In a way, software will always lag behind hardware, because it's hard to develop for hardware that doesn't yet exist, so there will always be new features that won't be initially used in software.
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