What about the impact of Mac OSX? Game publishers now must develop games to run natively on OSX, wouldn't that be easy to port over to Linux? Just wondering if that could ease things in the direction that I'm sure we'd all like to see --- more native linux games from major game publishers, released at the same time (or nearly the same time) as their Windows equivalents.
On Fri, 2003-03-14 at 11:59, Jef Spaleta wrote: > On Fri, 2003-03-14 at 14:18, joe wrote: > > Actually the potential of linux makes it a very nice > > platform for gaming and other multimedia activities. > > Linux has the potential to be a platform for nearly any purpose you can > dream up. That's not really the issue, the issue is one of business > focus and market maturity. Feel free to hold your breath until that > potential you speak of is realized. > > > There's no bending involved - all we really need > > is more driver support > > And a mature linux game publishing industry actually willing to provide > a wide array of native linux offerings on the same timescale of windows > offerings, beyond the stagnant fps genre. Oh and enough linux users > willing to actually pay for things to make such a "linux first" game > industry a viable business model, such that its worth the time and > energy creating the linux game to begin with. When game development > houses start seeing linux as credible enough platform to donate some > developer time at open source projects like X and the kernel...well then > it will be interesting. When game developers feel invested enough to > open source community, that they start impacting the development of core > projects, as a means to garner more profit form themselves through > better gaming performance on the linux platform....then linux gaming > will be a force in the market. As it stands now..linux gaming is an > experiment in the "potentials" of linux. > > I don't really think it makes sense to expect linux to grow up with > gaming in mind, at least unless the game developers looking to make a > profit off of linux via game sells, start to actively become involve in > aspects of linux development they are looking to profit from..reap what > you sow..reap what you sow. > > > -jef"just bitter because pyDDR just isn't the same as the real thing"spaleta -- Phoebe-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/phoebe-list
