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Blizzard's PC Stance

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Computer and Video Games quotes Blizzard's Mike Ryder on the company's PC commitment. "Its [sic] certainly not written off by us. PC development has a number of unique challenges that console developers don't face, but Blizzard is one of the few companies that is there making great PC games," he said, admitting that console development would be easier. "We've spent a lot of time in development focussing on scalablity, on new PC hardware and old. If you were just designing for a console it would be a much easier task." Thanks joao.

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Re: Blizzard's PC Stance

Aug 11, 2010, 11:21

Eldaron Imotholin

m00t wrote on Aug 10, 2010, 21:07:
No. It would harm computing significantly and would likely incur anti-trust lawsuits from the government. The competition (what there is of it) is good and, theoretically, helps keep the prices lower.

I agree with what you're saying, m00t. But it's not what I meant exactly.

GPUs should indeed still have different features and all, and be different from eachother as a whole, but wouldn't it be a good thing if they all had this same... well, let's say basic technology. PC game developers can then build their games on that basis. In this way, I think (but my logic may be flawed since I'm no expert) games shouldn't have to crash anymore on one GPU and work fine on another. Same with CPUs.




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