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DirectX Architect — Consoles as We Know Them Are Gone
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."
No mention is made of how XP driver support was yanked from Vista at the last minute either. Instead, it's the hardware that sucks, yeah, that's the ticket. The hardware you have been using and know is good dies on Vista because Intel slipped some chips on you, see?
What a crock this man is pushing. Is there anyone who's going to believe him? I hope OpenGL and pledges from Intel, Nvidia and ATI/AMD give him nightmares.
Friends don't help friends install M$ junk.
Because m$ has to be morons and try to sell their horrible Vista to gamers (btw I have had serious issues with Vista gaming, like for some reason older games don't run good with newer high end cards), holding the entire PC gaming market back because no one can make DX10 games because no one is running Vista!
The only ones that don't have to worry are game developers using the Unreal Engine for game development!