I don’t know if this is of interest to anyone…
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4182455.stm
Dan.
I wish some day Java (particularly LWJGL or others killing Java APIs) could help facing this problem by writing the code once and running it on any console. 
[quote]"There are still some developers who were involved in games from the bedroom coding days.
“Some of them are still making games for peer group approval - that has to stop.”
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Huh? I don’t get this comment at all.
[quote]I wish some day Java (particularly LWJGL or others killing Java APIs) could help facing this problem by writing the code once and running it on any console.
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I think the problem is not really with varying computer systems (that happens all the time) but more to see with the big companies merging and small companies being choked to death or exploited and unable to find distribution.
This article is from the point of view of someone who thinks game companies are about bringing money to the shareholders and not about making good games.That explains the final comment :-/
This is good news for the pc market. If nobody can afford to develop for consoles anymore the only place for innovation will be pc.
[quote]This is good news for the pc market. If nobody can afford to develop for consoles anymore the only place for innovation will be pc.
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I think there will be a great tribulation with the game industry anyway.They are facing increasing economical problems and they can’t continue the way they are doing, especially considering the bad games the big, ‘established’ companies are doing. There will be a crisis (well it happened already several times in the history of videogaming). You can sense that in the way how companies like EA are becoming enormous and producing only big licenses.The consumers aren’t going to spend their lives buying each yearly iteration of a copyrighted sport game.The console market is saturated .Even if a few japanese companies can continue to devellop interesting console games (Capcom for example)
Maybe the PC will come back as an interesting platform indeed.With a different economic model. The games are too expensive for a start.
How can we hope a come back for PC games when companies expect the average gamer to have the latest graphics cards and PCs? Few people can afford this budget. Compare this to consoles where you buy the machine and you play games for 4-5 years. This is by far a cheaper alternative and you have high quality and STABLE games.
Home computers have the potential to have much cheaper games than consoles.
And contrary to what Microsoft(directX), the hardware manufacturers and the videogame mass-media want you to believe, you don’t need the latest
3D library to make a game interesting or even beautiful.
That’s where independant publishers have a role to play.