I'm surprised he stayed as long as he did. Once the market moved to hardware that updates once every decade there wasn't much room for someone like him. Carmack is a guy that likes to set up new things and invent. The limits of the industry only let him do that once every 5-6-7 years. The PS4 and XB3 just caught up to the…
I have a somewhat different point of view on this one; in my opinion, Carmack has two main strengths. One is to find new and sometimes quite disruptive rendering technology. He usually gets these ideas by absorbing an incredible amount of information from seriously varied sources; from siggraph research papers to airplane…