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Wed, 31 Jan 2007 15:24:59 +000 |
Here's an interesting article (with lots of quotes from Peter Moore, Microsoft
VP of Interactive Entertainment), saying that Windows Vista will blow the lid
off PC gaming because it's as much a gaming platform as it is an OS. Here's a
clip:
Microsoft VP of Interactive Entertainment Peter Moore says that the company will
lead a PC gaming “Renaissance” with the release of Vista, which is being
touted as a gaming platform as much as an OS. Just as he believes Microsoft was
“derelict in its duty” to seriously get behind PC gaming and expand the
market in the past, he also thinks that the company is in the position to help
it along considerably in the future.
What do you think? Will Vista draw enthusiastic gamers back to the computer?
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Thu, 1 Feb 2007 07:10:27 +0000 |
It depends how useful things like XNA are to developers, wether the games
browser is a success , too many factors too early on for me to really say one
way or the other.
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Thu, 1 Feb 2007 16:08:31 +0000 |
Well first they need to address the gaming performance problems:
http://www.tomshardware.com/2007/01/17/gameplay-only-gets-worse-with-vista/
http://www.tomshardware.com/2007/01/29/xp-vs-vista/index.html Basically Vista
benchmarks slower than XP across the board. Gamers want killer performance,
Vista makes things worse. Until they fix this, the math is pretty obvious. ;-)
Jason Dunnwww.digitalmediathoughts.com
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Thu, 1 Feb 2007 21:05:55 +0000 |
Jason Dunn:.....Basically Vista benchmarks slower than XP across the board.
Gamers want killer performance, Vista makes things worse. Until they fix this,
the math is pretty obvious. ;-)Is the problem the fact that current games
are/were written for XP and would a Developed-for-Vista game resolve those
issues?Hidden_Hunter:It depends how useful things like XNA are to developers,
wether the games browser is a success , too many factors too early on for me to
really say one way or the other.XNA.
Another stealth ace Microoft has in the gaming and micropyments spaces.
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Thu, 1 Feb 2007 22:17:06 +0000 |
Jason Dunn:Well first they need to address the gaming performance problems:
http://www.tomshardware.com/2007/01/17/gameplay-only-gets-worse-with-vista/
http://www.tomshardware.com/2007/01/29/xp-vs-vista/index.html Basically Vista
benchmarks slower than XP across the board. Gamers want killer performance,
Vista makes things worse. Until they fix this, the math is pretty obvious. ;-)
Jason Dunnwww.digitalmediathoughts.com
I wouldn't of said the performence was that bad actually, better than when XP
first came out. However looking at the figures that are posted on tomshardware
for old unomptimized games I wouldn't call anything there unplayable.
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