On Tue, Jun 5, 2012, at 10:42 PM, Paul Hill wrote: > The advantage of consoles is that every one is the same, and has the > same gfx/cpu capabilities.
Fixed hardware means after a while they can really wrench some amazing stuff out of them. Just look at some of the demos being produced for the C64 even now. > > Talking of Valve (the Steam owners) they recently hired a bunch of > brilliant hardware engineers (such as Jeri Ellsworth). > They're up to something, possibly a new console. More likely to be a Valve PC I'd say, running a Linux distro, but with fixed hardware etc it would effectively be a console, as that's what the original xBox essentially was. -- Alan Bourke alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/1338968254.338.140661085584769.170b3...@webmail.messagingengine.com ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
