[pandaman]

Ok, you completely lost me on the point you are trying to make wrt "C compiled with C++" however I wholeheartedly agree with your penultimate paragraph.

Sony and Nintendo do not use these engines, MS might be making the new Gears with UE though, rest of their first party don't. Amazon and Google have one successful game between themselves (and that's a mobile game). All these engines bring to the industry are indies and mobile games. UE actually lost quite a lot of AAA they had in UE3 times. Epic's and Crytec's own games don't do quite well (Crytec is not even making payroll). So yeah, looks like C++ games do not have much to worry about.

[pjmlp]

> Ok, you completely lost me on the point you are trying to make wrt "C compiled with C++" however I wholeheartedly agree with your penultimate paragraph.

Use the platform C++ compiler, but write code only the language subset common to C, that could even be compiled by a plain C90 compiler.

The only exception being, wrapping C++ SDK APIs into C like wrappers.

A pattern I have seen too often.

Dismissing indies is the wrong attitude, they were the first ones to adopt C and Pascal, C++, Objective-C and nowadays C#, Swift, Java.

Sony does use C# a lot on their internal tools.

Nintendo uses Unity for prototyping.

Microsoft and Google are using Unity and Unreal a lot for their VR work.

All of them invited MonoGame developers and supported them porting MonoGame into their platforms (PS4, Switch, UWP Xbox).

C++ might not go away, people still write games in C and Assembly, but it will become that very thin bottom layer at the engine architecture diagram.

Just give it time, eventually even all major C compilers became written in C++.

[pandaman]

>A pattern I have seen too often.

And I have not seen ever. I have seen some C games (like Quake) but never worked on one. And I've been working in games since 90s.

>Sony does use C# a lot on their internal tools.

And now we are in the theretory of "console games are written on PC!!!1! So there!". Sony also uses Perl and Python on their servers and their movie studios use a lazy evaluated shader language. Does it mean games are switching to any of these soon to you?

>Nintendo uses Unity for prototyping.

And probably play Pokemon Go, also written in Unity! I see the pattern now... it's all clear.

>Microsoft and Google are using Unity and Unreal a lot for their VR work.

Listen. Unity has it's uses. If anything it keeps indies off the streets and provides artists with a way to earn a quick buck. I am not against Unity. It's just silly to imagine it has any chance competing with the traditional game industry tools. Saying so and so uses unity for something, which is not a game does not make the point I imagined you arguing here. Which is C# displacing C++ in games. Elon Musk likely uses Unity so there. Can't beat the old Musk.

But it still does not matter anything at all for the people who had been writing games in C++.