On Aug 1, 2007, at 7:07 PM, Kaiwai Gardiner wrote: > On Wed, 2007-08-01 at 13:34 -0700, John Martinez 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). The only exception being MMORPGs like WoW. >> >> The state of gaming is sad on the second largest desktop, Mac OS X, >> so I would suspect that Linux and Solaris would fall way down the >> list. >> >> But I do agree with you, games would definitely attract a different >> crowd than Solaris is used to, in a positive way. > > Apart from a few noisy, cpu over clocking, gpu tweaking, windows > registry hacking, caffeine addicted gamers - most people don't > actually > care about games.
One of the guys that invented UNIX did. Ever hear of "Space Travel?" > I can assure most people here, when it comes to migration, the > questions > I get asked from people have to do with whether they can get their > favourite applications on the new operating system - not whether they > can 'get their game on' (what ever the hell that means). It's called "entertainment." And quite a lot of people care about whether they can play games, play movies, play their CDs (or MP3s), etc. on their computers. iTunes Music Store and Blizzard both are doing quite well, as examples. The history between gaming and UNIX is real. <http://www.bell-labs.com/history/unix/pdp7.html> -john _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
