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The Future of Windows Gaming

Posted by Zonk on from the more-money dept.

GameDaily.biz has up an interview celebrating the tenth anniversary of DirectX. Their talk with Chris Donahue covers how DirectX has evolved, where the industry is going, and some discussion of Microsoft's XNA initiative. From the article: "With XNA, which incorporates both DirectX and the Xbox/Xbox 360 Development Kits, we're making the tools to make it easier to make games for Microsoft's gaming platforms. We're looking to the game development community to surprise gamers with new ideas of what they can do with these tools--and of course, we're helping developers build games that can take advantage of the huge power of the next generation of hardware, both Xbox 360 and Longhorn."

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  1. Re:Hmm... by FidelCatsro · · Score: 2, Interesting

    "I really wish that they would go to an open standard, but DirectX is the standard, and the way to go when developing games."
    OpenGL is equally as capable and it is an open standard .

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  2. Re:Do they actually believe this? by xMonkey · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Well the line you qouted is half true, drop the MS innovation crap and the truth is that MS windows and PCs have been and remain the platform for good games, dominating the consoles and definitely dominating any other PC OS.

    And this wieghs far more into the MS/Intel success for the consumers end. How much new hardware will be sold if the PC stops being the game industry platform.

    However this is being threatened by the next gens.

    But the other intersting truth is the next part of the quote:

    [i]Windows is still the place where "garage developers" can develop a game (just look at Crytek and "Far Cry.")[/i]

    There is no avenue of pursuit for the hobbiest ,indie game developers on the consoles.

    And the hobbiest/indies are who are responsible for innovation in th games industry.

    The PC industry, on the consumer end, is being threatened as a hwole by the consoles.

    What do most people need a computer in thier home for? Email/interent, music, movies, games, word processing.

    The next gens are startng to look like they are going to be offering most, if not all, of those services, and do it better and more stream lined.

    The end-user computer market could very well be seeing its demise.

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