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JaggedSac on 26 January 2009
Squilliam said:
JaggedSac said:

M$ just made a huge advertising deal with Blizzard.  So yes, they are making money off of WoW.  And will make money from Starcraft 2 and Diablo 3.

And M$ does have a huge interest in PC game development.  It is called DirectX.  And it might be losing some importance, but it is still a behemeth for graphical development.

 

I don't get it, how is Direct 3d losing importance when the competition(OpenGL) has effectively folded? Is there some other reason?

 

I thought that I read that OpenGL was gaining ground.  Maybe not.

 



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green_box on 26 January 2009

ha ha ha ha ha ...



Final-Fan on 27 January 2009

Microsoft Flight Simulator dead? Wow, that's like, a legend. I mean, it's not actually like Mario is to Nintendo, but maybe Zelda.

I'm sure Microsoft believes it has very good reasons for all this, but this is the sort of stuff that cannot be undone. If they try to ressurect it later it'll probably end up like poor Sega with Sonic -- struggling on and living somehow but usually disappointing the masochists who keep hope alive.

Thank you for posting this shio.



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