On Wed, 2007-08-01 at 13:34 -0700, John Martinez wrote: > On Aug 1, 2007, at 1:14 PM, MC wrote: > > > On games, I'm not sure everyone knows this, so I'll point it out. > > Games are a "killer app" for PCs, and they have been for years. > > (They make people buy computers.) There is a lot of money in this > > stuff, but it takes a lot of money to get right. > > > > Microsoft hasn't been steering the PC gaming ship as well as it > > could be, so there is room for improvement there. "Games for > > Windows" is a new move of theirs to bring more standardization > into > > PC gaming. Standardization is gooood. > > > > Game consoles are just extra computers for the home, but they are > > very successful because of the standardization they bring. In > > theory they make it easier to develop games and harder to pirate > > games. The standardization results in a better experience for the > > gamer and the game developer and the hardware developer. The > gamer > > gets better games, the game developer saves time and money, and > the > > hardware developer makes more money. In theory, anyway! The > > downside is that the gamer has just paid more money. > > 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. 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). Matthew _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
