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jlebrech

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I think MS is shooting themselves in the foot.

My reasoning is that they are making a console that is much more powerful than any current pc or future pc for at least 2 years, and which also contains an OS with much less bloat than their current PC offerings.

What this will do is force games makers to either switch to making XBOX360 only or other console games, and stop making games on pc. or switch to less bloated operating systems to run their game on to acheive a good enough performance.

We have seen companies like valve working in collaboration with ATi (and MS :( ) to make their engine. A collaboration between a games studio and NVidia for example could produce a bootable linux game with excellent Nvidia support with a kernel that is perfectly compiled for the exact need of the game.

What about other GPU?? well Nvidia is the most used GPU for linux and they could enforce their stronghold in that aspect by collaborating fully to GPL drivers and with software companies to make linux games.

Albeit they wont really be linux games in the strict sense as the user wont care wat the OS is as you will require a reboot anyway. But the label on my brand new game from the games shop specifies PC-CDROM hmm i have a PC with a cdrom that should work fine, should it not.

Here is a question: for a game could you not bypass the whole XWindows and access the GPU directly?? why doesnt Nvidia make some SDK for linux that does that in fullscreen? not something that sits on Xlib (i know the GPU does get called) but something that is underneath it, that could form an extremely fast backbone for graphics, that wouldnt require X.
I know its not all up to Nvidia but they could make a nice Linux monopoly for themselves by making such an SDK.

I envisage when a game will boot into memory, load the kernel and sound and graphics drivers (maybe networking) then execute the game code straight from there.
 
of cource pc's are still gonna be used for gaming. i know i will.
 
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