Nian Banks
Berserkers of Aesir
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Posted - 2013.02.07 08:36:00 -
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Glathull wrote: Ageck Kalenia- Within two years, ARM devices will account for more than half of all personal computer sales.
[Only if you count phones as personal computers. And I don't.]
Several large companies are looking at making Android powered laptops, they are cheap to build and use far less power vs a traditional x86 system. Nvidia and AMD are both spending allot of money in ARM chips, Oh and so is Intel....
Glathull wrote: Ageck Kalenia- 97% of those devices will employ touch as their primary input. A full 50% will support gesture input and 10% will natively display stereoscopic 3D.
[No. 100% of them will employ touch as primary input. Because they will all be phones and tablets. 100% will support gesture input because you can't have a touch-based device that doesn't. And less than 1% will natively display 3D of any kind. It's a stupid market that no one wants. Some idiot company will keep trying to make it work, but it won't ever catch on. You people don't get it. We already see the world in 3D. It's the one feature we don't need in am effing device.]
EvE would work quite well on touch screens, especially on the 7"+ sized tablets, 3D may be a gimmick, but its the gimmicks of today that become the norm tomorrow, I remember how 3D graphics was a gimmick back in the platformer days. Those late 80's 3d scene demos were cool...
Glathull wrote: Ageck Kalenia- The PC gaming industry has little appetite for Windows 8, as evidenced by leaders such as Valve Software. Valve is currently backing an aggressive transition to Steam for Linux, with a repository of 40 games and counting already available to open-source users. Valve is also throwing support behind Oculus Rift, a revolutionary developing virtual reality system.
[Windows 8 has no problems playing any of the games that I play. That's not an exhaustive list. I don't see anyone touting any games as Win8 only. The gaming world would be quite well off if people would get off they're XP asses and upgrade to Win7. Win* adoption has nothing to do with game design priorities right now.]
Actually the biggest issue, and I remember well the debates,I've been playing eve long enough. Was that laptops are expensive and you can't upgrade their graphics chip. So people were stuck with ageing GPU's and didn't want CCP to completely obsolete their laptop. Given that most people use laptops now, not desktops, its not a $100 discrete graphics card fix for them. Its a $600 new laptop, likely $1200 if you want something half decent. I would cry foul too if I was told by a gaming company that to continue playing a game I invested years in to,that I would have to fork out $1k.
Glathull wrote: Ageck Kalenia- All this points to something CCP isn't admitting: their flagship game title could soon become too damn inconvenient to play if it remains bound for all time to traditional PCs.
[Yes. Of course. A game where half the subscribers can't be bothered to upgrade to the latest version of DirectX is in danger of being obsoleted by tablets with beautiful touch interfaces. Gotcha.]
Actually I would and so would many others, to play on a mobile device (not a laptop), On the train to work, I could carebear for an hour, or chat. A simple mission while waiting for the doctor, that would be nice.
Glathull wrote: Ageck Kalenia- A whole 'nother big bag of blargh . . . Ugh. I agree windows 8 is a bomb. But taking a back seat to Ubuntu? You are smoking some fine stuff there.
There are lots of other problems with your analysis as well. Conflating a "tablet" market with the iPad market is only one of them. No other tablets are actually selling at the moment.
But your biggest problem is thinking that in order to survive, EvE has to appeal to a large market. EvE isn't a new social network that needs to have as many users as possible to hope to someday sell advertising (ahem, Google+). EvE already has a sustainable business model.
There will always be people who have desktops in addition to laptops, iPads, smartphones, and other ancillary devices. EvE has never appealed to anyone aside from that market. And it isn't going anywhere.]
What are you smoking? Your talking crap. Samsung are selling tablets like hotcakes, what about phablets? Those 5.5"+ sized phones with quad core cpu's. Or how about the Nexus 7 and 10? All those are selling like crazy, then again I guess you believe marketing BS from apple...
Either way, CCP if they don't invest in arm based systems, for the very least , release an app to allow skills changing and chat. They are not serving their user base properly. Poor form. |