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Nintendo Joins Khronos Group
jones_supa writes: Gamasutra reports that Nintendo has quietly joined Khronos Group, the consortium managing the OpenGL and Vulkan graphics APIs. The news was brought to Gamasutra's attention by a NeoGaf post, which notes that Nintendo's name was added to the list of Khronos Group contributing members earlier this month. As a Khronos Group contributor Nintendo has full voting rights and is empowered to participate in the group's API development, but it doesn't have a seat on the Khronos Group board and can't participate in the final ratification process of new API specifications.
If by "major players" you're excluding all the AA publishers and dev houses, MS, and nVidia, sure. These players are all about DX.
Being part of the group doesn't mean you want it to succeed, it means you need to know what's going on and to have your input to be heard in the event that it does.
I for one would love DX12 (and Windows 10) to flop, or at least for OpenGL Whatever They Call It Now to succeed as a viable alternative, but I'm not so naive as to believe it will happen.