Game Dev degree based.

a computer engineering degree focuses on the electrical engineering that goes into construction of a computer. While ECE''s usually have solid programming skills in C or some other high level language, their focus is on assembly and how to build a computer and not how to write a large program. An ECE would be good at building a PS3, but not so good for writing games that work on a PS3. At least, that''s the general case. I''d say that the majority of people working for game companies started out as CS majors.

In my experience I find many CPE''s to be far more sensitive to performance than CS majors.

Part of this I attribute to colleges starting students out on higher-level languages.