Microsoft Says PS3 Linux Not 'Competitive' To XNA

nz17 writes "Gamasutra has a preview of its upcoming interview with Dave Mitchell, Director of Marketing for Microsoft's Game Developer Group. In the interview Mitchell dismisses Linux on the PS3 as a game creators' solution and has said, 'What we [at XBox] are focused on doing is providing great tools at a free or low price point that are going to enable consumers to be absolutely successful at creating games for both the Windows and the Xbox 360 platforms.'"

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Case Against their argument: GP2X.

[torpor]

The GP2X is a Linux gaming platform done right.

Microsoft's straw-man shenanigans overlook the reality that Linux/FOSS on the GP2X has resulted in a superlative gaming experience for many who care to look beyond the hype and behind the curtain and see that, in fact, having access to the full suite of Linux tools in an open fashion results in superlative code being written for the fun of all .. And while the hardware specs themselves may not be comparable, its quite feasible that the success of the GP2X (and it has been successful, indeed) will lead to a GP4X/GP8X built on the same platform, from which a great deal of ass-whoopin' can be delivered to both Microsoft, and Sony as well.

With the difference being of course, that Sony have a gate opened for Linux hacking, and for the porting of all GP2X code to their platform, with ease. And this could, indeed, lead to a many-headed hydra Microsoft won't have the swords for ..

Prediction: In 6 months, we'll see Linux as a gaming platform tour de force. Its only just warming up, yo ..

Re:He may be right

[carninja]

You're a fool. Have you actually seen what XNA can do? 2D Side scrollers? Where the hell are you coming up with this bullshit? Pretty much every single sentence in your post was grossly inaccurate.