On Aug 1, 2007, at 3:02 PM, Brian Gupta wrote:
On 8/1/07, MC <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I thought I read somewhere (can't find the source) that the market
for PC games is shrinking and the market for console games is growing
(Wii/PS3/Xbox 360).
PC gaming makes much less money than console gaming right now,
because of the aforementioned advantages to the standardized
console platform.
What I was getting at is that there is room for game development
and game playing to expand into the Solaris and Linux space. Red
Hat makes money from selling free stuff, so OpenGL and game
development support-providing companies could make money too.
Maybe a coalition of groups and companies could push OpenGL back
into the spotlight, which then pushes gaming closer to Linux and
Solaris. Video drivers are moving closer to being open source
already.
And the other thing I was getting at is that the stable platform
that is Solaris (as opposed to Linux) naturally makes for a better
game development platform than Linux and maybe even Windows. Plus
an open source 3d coalition would have no motivation to pull a
Vista + DirectX 10 and force people to upgrade to something
unnecessarily.
Keep in mind that if you are tracking sales records. Blizzard just
made an all time sales record with a PC based game (The sequel to
World of Warcraft).
Yup, that's what the article I read a month or so stated. MMORPGs
like WoW are the most successful of the PC games anymore. Probably
because of the way you play them. It'd be hard(er) to do on a
console. Damn, I need to find that article again.
-john
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