Well its pretty hard to call. PS2 is out the door
but the horse is limping. The inital crop of games induced a few "wow's!" but more than a few "whatevers", as developer knowledge of the platform increases the quality of product will improve, but still, right now the dreamcast is the platform running the best titles.
When the XBox comes out it'll be winning hardware wise, have an impressive roster of people developing for it and half a billion dollars of a marketing budget. Microsoft may be prone to buggy software, but consider that this is a closed box, lots of nastiness with incompatibility (the source of many a game developers woe's) and a favoured set of api's will greatly reduce instability.
Python holds a special place in my heart, Perl is a troublesome beast I'm coming to grips with. Still, it always bugged me having to write : i = i + 1 instead of i++ In Python. Gary
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And the winner is...
Well its pretty hard to call. PS2 is out the door but the horse is limping. The inital crop of games induced a few "wow's!" but more than a few "whatevers", as developer knowledge of the platform increases the quality of product will improve, but still, right now the dreamcast is the platform running the best titles.
When the XBox comes out it'll be winning hardware wise, have an impressive roster of people developing for it and half a billion dollars of a marketing budget. Microsoft may be prone to buggy software, but consider that this is a closed box, lots of nastiness with incompatibility (the source of many a game developers woe's) and a favoured set of api's will greatly reduce instability.
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Python holds a special place in my heart, Perl is a troublesome beast I'm coming to grips with. Still, it always bugged me having to write : i = i + 1 instead of i++ In Python. Gary