Mouse is quite feedback-less — it feels always the same, all mouse games are built around the simplistic mechanic of pointing at stuff quite disconnected from the input device. For most people, an iPhone or Android device can easily meet their on the go gaming needs. Sales of the Vita and 3DS have been terrible in comparison. Which is why those two devices were released with a lot of smartphone-like features built in. Which phones excel at.
Anything touch translates badly to non touch. Words with friends would be nigh on unworkable. But, conversely, touch screen is no place for traditional controller based games. For most people, an iPhone or Android device can easily meet their on the go gaming needs […] The Nintendo DS and the PSP sold a ton of units, but they came out before smart phone gaming took off. Furthermore, probably billions users of simpler handsets those which have the capability to install j2me games, or even just include a few… why not count the latter?
So I suppose the dreams of Xperia Play come true… scary, in a The Lathe of Heaven kind of way ;p yes, its two sticks are not quite physical, but a I find it quite an intriguing approach b they could be, with some modification of form-factor — maybe making a recessed place for them, maybe something close to… PSP.
Times change. Normally, I would expect a monopoly to use their existing established product Windows 7 to force themselves into a new market real tablets, not old stuff. They they seem to be doing it in the other way around. Windows 8 is effectively pushing their unfinished tablet interface into existing stable desktop monopoly.
Nobody would complain if Metro was tablet only. But they force it so much into the desktop that they even disabled hacks that brought back regular desktop and start menu in the latest releases.
They have to force it upon us because if users were given an option they might vote with their feet. The ribbon was forced onto us because people are by nature resistant to change. Personally however, I think the ribbon was a fantastic decision for Office and works well in many other apps now too. As to Metro. Seemingly significant but mostly aesthetic UI changes are par-for-the-course in this industry anyway.
You can blame Microsoft and their decision to throw convention out the window in favour of bolting a menu onto each application resulting in the perennial clusterf—k that is Windows usability or there lack of. I would love to see some explanation for why he thinks this. I would like to see this explained too. That reads to me like there is more room for smaller players to step up. Maybe a power shift with the rise of some currently second tier players?
The great white hope of PC hardware has been the Ultrabook. They hoped to get away from wafer thin margins with that. Acer for example just had to make a few bad moves and they slumped down the rankings, like HP to an extent. There is desperation for the PC business to get out of the race for the bottom. By hacking in touch and all that in the next great White hope is in Software, Windows 8.
The OEMs are hoping against hope that they can get ahead by enhancing the market they already exist in. Dell, HP, Acer and Lenovo have either failed or just not done well in the expanding mobile market. If Windows 8 fails, it will be another generation of Windows where the race to the bottom is still in place in a shaky global financial market. Yahoo was at the top once, everybody needed search and Yahoo was search. It just has to do what people want. Each of the vendors also ignore why Apple can command the margins they do — because they actually are different.
The great saviour to the PC industry is consolidation and each vendor developing their own in house operating system — with an ecosystem around that operating system which gives the customer a uniquely HP, Dell or Lenovo experience.
When the vendor can control the experience they can ensure that the customers are happy and become repeat customers rather than viewing their products as interchangeable with any other product out there. Or some other cheap alternative OS. Because having a standard OS distribution regardless of which OS, is no different than the actual situation with Windows, in differention terms.
The only way to properly differentiate, like it used to be before the IBM PC was introduced, leads to bigger development costs. Right now customers go in, they see a row of laptops that are all running Windows so can you blame them just going for the cheapest one?
A Linux based one from Dell? As a developer you would be in a territory similar to the complaints some developers now have about Android. Either make use of OS agnostic deployment tools, which are not able to take advantage of the platform uniqueness, or resort to choose a selected few as the target platforms. In the Amiga days, for example, I only cared what was available for the Amiga. The Atari ST was not even in my radar. You said it yourself, the ecosystem. Think of the current Android situation only worse, as at least Android versions no matter how different do retain a few similarities at the core.
Can you imagine what would happen, for both the users and the developers, if they tried that now? How many versions of Office, Photoshop, or insert common workplace app here might there end up being if this were to take place, each with their own bugs and missing features? Coming ahead of the Windows 8 launch, pegged for October 26 this year, the head of Valve made the disparaging comments at the video game conference in Seattle, known as Casual Connect, Slashgear reports.
Newell's opinion should be considered through a gaming lens, as Valve is a popular portal that allows customers to download games and link their accounts to the cloud through Steam. The concern is that once Windows 8 is established, the revenue stream changes, and the rival in-built Windows store may make Microsoft's alternative more appealing to consumers and developers, especially when you consider features such as Xbox LIVE integration.
However, it is not only the restrictive and closed nature of the Windows Store which is an issue. Valve's success was attributed to the PC's "open" nature; Newell said that Valve "would not exist" without the open and flexible platform. He also said that there has always been a "strong temptation" to close a platform, due to the profits that can be gained from the PC market.
The head of Valve must have something up his sleeve to publicly trounce Microsoft, surely? Apparently so; Newell believes the only thing holding gamers back from adopting the Linux platform is a lack of gaming choice on the system, and so Valve is currently working on bringing some titles to Linux -- including Left 4 Dead 2 -- just in case his predictions bear fruit.
According to the publication, Newell describes the move with Steam towards the alternative operating system as a "hedging strategy," and it will "be good to have alternatives to hedge against that eventuality" if Windows 8 does disrupt the success of the Valve gaming portal and disrupt competing developers. Apple updates tax and prices for App Store in Ukraine, Zimbabwe, others. With CES behind us, we go hands-on with our favorite accessories for Apple users we tested at the show, including docks, smart home devices, Find My accessories, and more.
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A weirdly self-sacrificing business move by Microsoft. Looking at you, Games for Windows Live. Valve was there, and that means a lot. Gabe Newell, Mike Harrington, and Co. A Microsoft acquisition undermines all that trust, and might lead to the death of PC gaming as we know it. A Microsoft acquisition presumably turns these into Microsoft titles, ripe for cashing in.
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