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Soleron on 09 June 2008
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rocketpig said:
ocnkng said:
@Rocketpig ha ha good one man, hats off to you. Ya and to add to the arguments of Soleron and the others even though MS creates great software, they are in the end proprietary and closed. True innovation can only thrive in an open source environment. As gaming becomes more mainstream and moves away from the PC/Windows platform, we will definitely see the rise of Open GL and other open platforms and environments.

See, the thing is that I've been hearing that line for 15 years now. OpenGL is like soccer in the United States.

It's been the "next big thing" for a long time now and it will always continue to be.

The thing is that many of you probably think I'm an MS supporter... I'm not. After having to code for their bullshit for nearly a decade, there are few companies I despise on the same level I do MS. But I'm a realist. DirectX, much like Internet-fucking-Explorer, will not be going away any time soon. Even after the "explosion" by Firefox, IE still holds 75% of the market. OpenGL may get support here and there but neither it nor Linux will ever see wide support, much less will it ever take out DirectX as the market leader.

There's a lot to be said about getting bundled in the box, something PCs and Windows will share for the forseeable future.


OK, I accept that. I am not expecting rapid change either. I do believe that MS's influence over the gaming market as a whole will continue to weaken over time, as it has done every since about 1996 when consoles first had 3D graphics and Microsoft's technologies were no longer the best in the field.