| cAPSLOCK said: People keep bringing up the old saying "competition is good"
Yes, competition is good, especially for OPERATING SYSTEMS. Steam is available for Windows and Mac, and probably in the future Linux. GFWL will only be available for Windows. Thanks to steam on Mac they're already predicting something of a flourishing of Mac gaming in 2011. http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2010/08/mac-gaming-renaissance-coming-in-2011-powered-by-steam.ars That's the competition I want -- the ability to choose my operating system. Besides, if PC gamers didn't notice, MS isn't very friendly to PC gaming. PC gamers should be HAPPY that MS is losing their stranglehold on PC gaming. With a little luck Linux will get some steam love and then choice of OS will boil down to security and stability and price. OH SHI
Edit: Oh yeah, I guess I should add: steam is about to get some competition. Difference? This competition doesn't think they can gouge PC gamers like console gamers: http://www.geek.com/articles/games/google-shows-off-chrome-app-store-for-web-games-20100819/ There's a lot more to that upcoming app store than just simple little farmville style games, by the way. This is the WebGL and HTML5 Trojan horse and since Google is only charging 5% (as opposed to console fees, or other app store's 30%) fees and a $5 publishing price it's going to attract a ton of developers. No porting needed, no thoughts to OS, just make it in a browser. I imagine the next 3-4 years will see a lot of massive, revolutionary jumps in web gaming tech. |
The Chrome App store is not going to be anything big. I doubt we will see more than downgraded ports and farmville like games. Maybe some games like the Tycoon games. And web game tech is still very limited. HTML6 might give a better footing, but I dont see past Doom 2 in terms of games.
