On 8/1/07, John Martinez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > 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 > > There was a developer lurker in the games-discuss list that said if a handful of Solaris users committed to subscribing, they would maintain an OpenSolaris port: http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?messageID=135658𡇪
-Brian
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