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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.
Doesn't matter if it's dx10 or dx 18.
Computer gaming sucks, that's the end of it.
p.s Gabe Newell eats babies.
This exact same journal entry was penned by twitter, who had it rejected from the Firehose probably because of his negative moderation and the fact that editors are starting to wise up to him.
You ACs and M$ spammers do this to me all the time. No big deal, it's not like I'd enforce a copyright or anything. Enjoy Twitter's work anyway you like.
It's funny that you would argue with what the president of Valve has to say about M$'s marketing strategy. What typical M$ bluster. Sometimes it can be useful, thank you so very much!
I can't even begin to imagine what the relevance of Christmas and back to school as claimed by twitter is for gamers who probably switch OSes only when they switch their $3,000 boxes anyway, but I'd say that 8% share is actually not bad in that segment.
If I can't run Vista on a $3,000 computer, what will it run on? Don't you think that kind of doubt is bad for the gaming market? If I'm going to buy a non free gaming system right now, it's going to be a $600 PS3.
As for the fortunes of Vistsa, we'll see. Looks like a sinking ship to me.
Friends don't help friends install M$ junk.
Maybe if you took the time to pull your lips off your a dick and open your eyes to things other than gay porn you'd know. But nope, you like manmeat too much. Keep telling yourself it's not an addiction, even though you can't go more than a day without the hot semen of another man, without feeling the long thick penis, without being able to caress another man's balls. You crave the liquid of a man constantly. I mean, what kind of sick fucking pervert pretends his sperm cannot produce children just to get access to a sperm bank so you have some man-juice to drink while on your second honeymoon. If only your wive knew about your twisted addiction to man steak.
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
PS3 has way more capacity than that silly Xbox and will last much longer. It's also got a better chance of being a non free video hub, as it already is in the EU and Japan. Xbox 360 is just like the original Xbox, it's only a few months old and it already looks obsolete. PS3, on the other hand, is going to be around for years and that kind of stability encourages game makers. There's a reason PS2 so completely dominated the market and I expect things to stay that way.
Friends don't help friends install M$ junk.
And parent is an actual MS shill.