As console/pc video game programmer I can just say: Make it compilable on your target platforms: PC, Wii, PS3, Xbox, what other is needed. Don't care about ot

As console/pc video game programmer I can just say: Make it compilable on your target platforms: PC, Wii, PS3, Xbox, what other is needed. Don't care about other platforms, until they arrive. Instead of #ifdef, try to find the pattern in your code, and use select macroses such as: PC_WIIXBOXPS3(pcValue,consoleValue) or WII_XBOXPS3_PC(wiiValue,xboxOrPs3value,pcValue) wrap align, threadlocal, etc. as macro-define. The UNICODE advise is wrong. These system do not have even working locales, so don't trust strupr(), strlwr(), toupper() - etc. to work correctly for your localized game.