On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 10:48 PM, Ben Eisenbraun <b...@klatsch.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 04, 2010 at 06:12:53PM -0500, Star wrote: > > There have been a couple of great releases specifically targeting Linux > > as a platform. I'm thinking of Unreal, EVE, and Farcry (i think?) > > There have been some. I remember playing Tribes 2 during lunch on the > linux workstations in the NOC. Id has historically been good about > releasing its games for Linux, but then the driver problem arises. Even > with the binary Nvidia driver, you can expect a 25-50% drop in frame rate > on the same hardware switching between linux and Windows. > I've played Doom on SGI Irix FWIW. Doom was everywhere. > > There's just not enough of a market for linux games for the publishers to > port their games and for the hardware manufacturers to spend time tuning > their drivers for linux. > > Don't most publishers focus on the consoles? Playstation, Xbox, Wii, DS, PSP and iPhone? The end platform is consistant and not changing. Anyway, I think if Apple makes it as a gaming platform, it will be because > they made it as a mainstream OS first. (Or possibly because they used the > mobile gaming arena as the fulcrum upon which they levered game developers > on to OS X.) > > That mainstream OS is probably the iPhone OS, not MacOSX.
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