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DirectX Architect — Consoles as We Know Them Are Gone

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the something-about-a-nomad dept.

ThinSkin writes "DirectX architect Alex St. John swims against the current and predicts the demise not of PC gaming, but of game consoles, in an exclusive two-part interview at ExtremeTech. In part one, Alex blasts Intel for pushing its inferior onboard graphics technology to OEMs, insists that fighting piracy is the main reason for the existence of gaming consoles, and explains how the convergence of the GPU and the CPU is the next big thing in gaming. Alex continues in part two with more thoughts on retail and 3D games, and discusses in detail why he feels 'Vista blows' and what's to become of DirectX 10."

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  1. Re:Go figure... by Naughty+Bob · · Score: 5, Funny

    DirectX architect Alex St. John swims against the current...
    He is clearly making his way back to his birthplace, in order to spawn.

    His mind is clearly a-buzz with hormones, let's not be too cruel.
    --
    "Be light, stinging, insolent and melancholy"
  2. Re:Great explanation! by Hal_Porter · · Score: 4, Funny

    they knew I was Bruce This would be funnier if you said "they knew I was The Bruce"
    --
    echo -e 'global _start\n _start:\n mov eax, 2\n int 80h\n jmp _start' > a.asm; nasm a.asm -f elf; ld a.o -o a;