neogaf.com — The Taiwanese Notebook manufacturer Acer plans to enter into the console market. This communicated the senior Vice President, James T. Wong, on a press conference. Most current consoles are closed and proprietary systems, which machine" on PC technology based "game machine"; from Acer is to set against it on open standards. This could mean. . .
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sureshot324Mar 18, 2008
If it's an open standard and there are no licensing fees, they won't be able to sell it at a loss, unlike MS and Sony. This basically means they won't be able to compete in the high end. I could definitely see them building a competitive console around $200 (after all wallmart is selling PCs at that price) but the hard part will be getting developers to make games for it.
saralkMar 18, 2008
Nintendo has shown that graphics don't really matter, innovation is far more important. The iPhone/iPod Touch have tilt based controls, multi touch, a microphone, high quality audio, internet access, wifi and a whole host of other things that game developers could use to make some cool games.You may say that other phones have all these features, and you'd be right, however no other single device has such a big market share. Sure, Windows Pocket PCs and Blackberries have a larger market share, but that is divided into many different phones. So a developer can't optimise the games for the hardware because they don't know what the hardware is going to be.A sandboxed enviroment like Symbian OS doesn't cut it too, because then games have to account for phones that don't have certain features, and remodel the game for that. For example, one phone may have a touch screen, whereas another phone only has a keypad, controls for both have to be included, increasing the complexity of developing a game.With the iPhone/iPod, they know exactly what they are developing for, can use hacks specifically for that hardware, and everyone gets the same experience.
evilwalkswithmeMar 18, 2008
Yeah? Well my penis is bigger than yours!
redneckbluesMar 18, 2008
Price. Most of my friends hadn't touched their Wii's for months until Brawl came out. Xbox still leads on software sales.
rowlodgeMar 18, 2008
dreamcast 2...
floydaxMar 20, 2008
So true. And customer support sucks big time...
dracusisMay 2, 2008
I was being sarcastic, of course I know what it is.