Valve Says Choice to Make DX10 Vista-Only Hurt PC Gaming

Erris writes "Valve's President Gabe Newell is calling Microsoft's choice to make DirectX 10 Vista-only a 'terrible mistake' that has harmed gaming. His company's latest hardware study shows the strategy has not moved gamers onto Vista. The result is that almost no one is using the newest version of DirectX, and companies are shying away from creating new input devices that support it. Nine months after release, after Christmas, after graduation, and with school mostly back in session, still only 8% of gamers are using it." Update: 08/27 21:09 GMT by Z : An AC points out that these numbers may be framed poorly given uptake numbers for XP's release.

Comments

Huh?

[Macthorpe]

Didn't you already write about this?

Re:Huh?

[The Living Fractal]

You must be new here. Your UIN seems to suggest you have at least a little experience though. Strange.

Re:Huh?

[MadnessASAP]

And constructive comment of the day award goes too.....(drumroll) AC! again 5 years running AC has demonstrated that no matter how stupid and unhelpful you may be you can always manage to operate a computer and post to slashdot. Really man whoever you may be, why did you even bother? Did you really think that a comment like this would change anything? Do you feel that it adds to the conversation? Maybe you though that somebody would be swayed by your obvious wit and intelect? To borrow a line from one of my High School teachers. "Next time you feel like posting instead push the keyboard away and bang your head against the desk until the urge goes away."

Re:Gaming the system for fun and profit

[Janek Kozicki]

you should have an account for writing such insightful comments. Now you are not too likely to get modded up.

Re:Game developers chose this

[huckamania]

It's hard for game company VPs to understand how they will make money by releasing free software. The 4 freedoms and such are kind of anathema to their current business model of selling software for money (as opposed to good will and community driven software improvements).

Now quick, someone post a link to the top 100 open source games, cause that will show them.

Re:Attention is flattering and sometimes useful.

[Macthorpe]

I'll do everyone a favour and actually link to all the comments on your journal. That way people can be slightly more informed as to how dedazo and I 'helped' you.

Re:Attention is flattering and sometimes useful.

[Racemaniac]

roflmao, you're hilarious ^^
where did he say you need a 3000$ box (or that a 3000$ box isn't enough?)
it's just that most pc gamers make big updates from time to time, so dx10 cards and vista will grow in marker share when people feel the need to update their dx9 generation rig to a dx10 generation monster :).
also, about the ps3 (and xbox360), yeah, we know, it's cheaper, but the hardware stays the same for the next few years, so little progress over that time, and the pc's are already matching it's performance, in 2 or 3 years pc games will be a lot better than the console games. not to mention it are also different kind of games (besides the generic cross platform hyped crap for teens)

and just wondering, why a ps3? i'm no console player myself, but from what i heard so far from xbox360 vs ps3 is that the 360 is cheaper, better graphics (for now at least), more and better games, ....
or is this another episode in your great quest against m$?