Next gen gaming consoles

[Headbanger]

Xbox division went "black" long ago, .

By that you mean to say 6 years in the future providing incoming and outgoes stay on the same trajectory?

Or is that if you pretend the 5.5billion dollar loss doesn't exist?

[Headbanger]

Linux is a non-event, They haven't managed to capitalise on their strengths or the weaknesses of other platforms, after 2 decades of being championed and almost unlimited resources, they haven't advanced their cause at all.

If any new development makes headway, It may be based on Linux (android is an example) but it won't be packaged nor marketed as such, and I'd say it will be a stock box product.

[Headbanger]

Windows 8 is set to have a licencing system too, cause obviously MS know how much cash moneys is to be made through such a system. So like I said don't expect the Windows gaming to continue as freely as it has,

This might be silly as you haven't yet backed up anything that you have stated in this thread (and I'm pretty sure everything that has been contested has proven to be a load of rubbish) but do you by any chance have a link to something relevant or are you capable of expanding on that particular snippet?

[SMOKEU]

I think Linux will become much more popular in the coming years, as it's only been in the past few years that it's had a very nice, easy to use GUI (obviously it depends on the distro) and is no longer this very difficult to use OS that needs the CLI to do everything, or almost everything. The software support is getting better now, and Linux can easily replace Windows for the "average" person who just wants to surf the internet, VOIP, and do light office type work.

If more people start using it as an ordinary desktop OS then maybe the game developers will start to take notice. Maybe.

[Scuba_Steve]

Linux? Without looking, I assume they occupy 1% of the desktop market still, like they have forever? She's a white elephant (in that context) that one. If we had a dollar for every time Linux had been tipped to be on the rise, we could all afford a copy of Windows

Linux offers better FPS than Windows, Steam has started inroads others are currently running financial viability studies. Linux has always been on the rise, will this see it skyrocket? guess that depends on whether MS goes through with their plans

This might be silly as you haven't yet backed up anything that you have stated in this thread (and I'm pretty sure everything that has been contested has proven to be a load of rubbish) but do you by any chance have a link to something relevant or are you capable of expanding on that particular snippet?

"If Windows 8 succeeds we will have something worse than Apple on our hands. Another walled garden. It will be a safer place for consumers but a less exciting place for gamers. All Windows 8 apps will have to conform to guidelines and undergo a rigorous Apple-like certification process. The Windows 8 strategy is really the gentrification of the edgy but seedy part of technology land that grew out of the openess that was DOS and the IBM PC."

Have some links
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How have you not heard about MS's plans to restrict? at this stage it's restricted to just the Metro interface, but do you really expect MS to keep the desktop round???
I'm sure alot thought they'd keep DOS round too

[bogan]

Linux offers better FPS than Windows, Steam has started inroads others are currently running financial viability studies. Linux has always been on the rise, will this see it skyrocket? guess that depends on whether MS goes through with their plans

I think you mean has the potential to offer better fps than windows, shit doesn't run on linux, that counts as no fps.

How have you not heard about MS's plans to restrict? at this stage it's restricted to just the Metro interface, but do you really expect MS to keep the desktop round???
I'm sure alot thought they'd keep DOS round too

Meh, the sky is not falling yet, and unless they want to dick around their customers and force them to other platforms, I don't see it ever falling.

[Scuba_Steve]

Meh, the sky is not falling yet, and unless they want to dick around their customers and force them to other platforms, I don't see it ever falling.

Not familiar with MS's methods then ay? MS has almost never cared about the end user, they're in it for the moneys & the moneys only! till they get some competition they'll continue to screw their customers without care. Such is their business model.
Besides have you not seen who's in-charge lately? crazy man Balmer isn't the brightest of the bunch

[bogan]

Not familiar with MS's methods then ay? MS has almost never cared about the end user, they're in it for the moneys & the moneys only! till they get some competition they'll continue to screw their customers without care. Such is their business model.
Besides have you not seen who's in-charge lately? crazy man Balmer isn't the brightest of the bunch

And if they are in it for the money, do you think they will want to drive their customer to other OSs?

[SMOKEU]

I think you mean has the potential to offer better fps than windows, shit doesn't run on linux, that counts as no fps.

Unless you count WINE, in which case you suffer a major FPS decrease compared to native Windows.

[Scuba_Steve]

And if they are in it for the money, do you think they will want to drive their customer to other OSs?

The biggest customer push for Mac was Vista

[bogan]

The biggest customer push for Mac was Vista

Ah yes, so that would be the 2004 version then? http://mashable.com/2012/07/03/mac-vs-pc-sales/

[Headbanger]

Have some links
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Link 2

2032?

ffs



I fully expect Windows to be gone by 2032.

[Headbanger]

Some more comments from the interview with the ex-MS honcho have been used to fluff out an article at IGN...

http://au.ign.com/articles/2013/02/0...-refocus-on-pc

"Xbox does not fit into Microsoft’s portfolio," he claims. "If you talk about maybe the software for it and the services, okay, but making that hardware box? My God. There is no money there!
"Yes, maybe it attracted the younger generation who want a game console, but look at the graphical quality on all these games consoles today," he explained. "Compared with the graphic systems you can have on the PC, they’re awful, they’re just awful! They’re always a generation or two behind for the simple reason that they need to sell these boxes for 250 bucks."

Funny enough he thinks consoles are a dead end and a money pit.

Oh, and the graphics are shit.

[Scuba_Steve]

Some more comments from the interview with the ex-MS honcho have been used to fluff out an article at IGN...

Funny enough he thinks consoles are a dead end and a money pit.

Oh, and the graphics are shit.

IGN always a great source for truthful, unbiased, & untainted gaming news
As for "graphics are shit" I honestly aint seen much better from PC's, sure they're better but no where near enough for me to go "fuck yea I'm gonna go piss away a grand on a GFX card & get back into PC gaming"

[SMOKEU]

IGN always a great source for truthful, unbiased, & untainted gaming news
As for "graphics are shit" I honestly aint seen much better from PC's, sure they're better but no where near enough for me to go "fuck yea I'm gonna go piss away a grand on a GFX card & get back into PC gaming"

Compare a console with a high end gaming rig and the console always has shitty graphics. The difference is like night and day.