My major complaint would be that they seemed to focus on the low hanging fruit, the games that were easiest to do, rather than on the best-selling games as was promised.
I just checked the list and see that Soul Caliber II still isn't on it. I'm pretty sure that it sold very well.
On the plus side, I see that they've added DOA 3 and Ninja Gaiden since the last time I checked, so they are indeed still working on it.
I agree that MS could probably make DX10 run on XP. But should they? From my understanding, the driver model in Vista is quite different from XP's model. Supporting DX10 on both Vista and XP would likely require a significant increase in development time or resources. I would rather have them spend all the time and resources in one place, thus given the most bang for the buck.
What is the big deal about upgrading to a new OS? PC gamers are hardly the most price conscious group of people in the world. If you are willing to spend thousands of dollars on a cutting edge gaming system, I don't understand why you would want to cheap out and use a last-generation OS.
All in all, I hear echos of every other time a new OS has come out. People said the same sort of things about XP.
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My major complaint would be that they seemed to focus on the low hanging fruit, the games that were easiest to do, rather than on the best-selling games as was promised. I just checked the list and see that Soul Caliber II still isn't on it. I'm pretty sure that it sold very well. On the plus side, I see that they've added DOA 3 and Ninja Gaiden since the last time I checked, so they are indeed still working on it.
I agree that MS could probably make DX10 run on XP. But should they? From my understanding, the driver model in Vista is quite different from XP's model. Supporting DX10 on both Vista and XP would likely require a significant increase in development time or resources. I would rather have them spend all the time and resources in one place, thus given the most bang for the buck.
What is the big deal about upgrading to a new OS? PC gamers are hardly the most price conscious group of people in the world. If you are willing to spend thousands of dollars on a cutting edge gaming system, I don't understand why you would want to cheap out and use a last-generation OS.
All in all, I hear echos of every other time a new OS has come out. People said the same sort of things about XP.
What! This is crazy talk! You mean I'm going to need the newest OS to play the newest games on the newest hardware. Has the world gone insane?