Steam pisses me off majorly. The xbox one and ps4 are both accessible. So if they was away for narator to pull the text from games we would be golden. I still love my consoles even though you can get a lot of the same games for computers. My comp only has 6 gb of ram and probably not the best graphics card anyways. All I have ever really wanted is for main stream games to be accessible and I am sure there is away to do this.
On 10/25/16, dark <d...@xgam.org> wrote: > Sadly "just having the sounds turned into pictures" is easier said than > done, likewise I doubt game stop (which I assume is rather like game station > > is over here in the Uk), would stock independently produced games. > > If there was an audiogames console, the plane fact is only blind people > would buy it and it's doubtful anyone would develop games with graphics for > > it. Plus, to be brutally honest, why should I pay for additional hardware > when I already have a computer and an Iphone that can play games no > problem? > When a sighted person buys a games consoles, there are lots of games that > won't! be available on their pc, or mac or whatever, however as a blind > person that is not the case, and I don't think you could find a dedicated > list of developers willing to write games for a new platform when they could > > already develop games for Windows pc, Ios, or even Mac or Android and know > they'd have a dedicated pool of users who already have the hardware and > inclination to buy their games without laying out additional costs. > > Developing audiogames for actual graphical consoles like the playstation or > > xbox might be a possibility, though even there you have the problem of > firstly how a blind person accesses the text in the game with no software > or os based synthesisers (I have heard importing of things like sapi onto > Xbox and ps4 has been tried but I'm not sure how it went), also manifestly > you have the problem that only some blind users will have consoles, and of > the potential sighted users of games consoles it's uncertain how many would > > buy an audiogame anyway making development of it worth while. > > Game consoles come from a time when most people didn't own computers, and > when the dedicated processing power and potentials of the hardware was far > > more than a similar computer system. That however is fading these days no > longer the case, most people already own a computer or smart phone and can > play games on it, indeed I've heard steam (irritating as it is for their > lack of access), called the next step in consoles, ie, a virtual os that > doesn't come with any hardware at all but runs on the user's own existing > devices. > > > So bottom line, I don't really think a console for the blind would work at > all, at most it'd mean laying out extra expense for a few users and for > developers to write for a platform with potentially even less users than > normal, and it's even less likely that such a console would be picked up by > > sighted people. > > Better focus on platforms everyone! has access too than try to create > another, heck look at the interest by sighted players in games like > pappasangre on the Iphone. > > all the best, > > Dark. > > > --- > Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org > If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to > gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. > You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at > http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. > All messages are archived and can be searched and read at > http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. > If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, > please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. > -- Lenron Brown Cell: 985-271-2832 Skype: ron.brown762 --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
