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Contemporary Games and Comps vs. Gaming Consoles [was Re: Why islinux not popular ]
- To: Etay Meiri <etay(at-nospam)camelot.com>
- Subject: Contemporary Games and Comps vs. Gaming Consoles [was Re: Why islinux not popular ]
- From: Shlomi Fish <shlomif(at-nospam)techst02.technion.ac.il>
- Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2001 07:12:31 +0300 (EEST)
- Cc: Ben-Nes Michael <miki(at-nospam)canaan.co.il>, linux ILUG <linux-il(at-nospam)linux.org.il>
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On Tue, 21 Aug 2001, Etay Meiri wrote:
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Ben-Nes Michael <miki@canaan.co.il>
> To: linux ILUG <linux-il@linux.org.il>
> Sent: Tuesday, August 21, 2001 4:56 PM
> Subject: Re: Why is linux not popular
>
>
> > I read somewhere that the Computer Gaming buissness roll more money then
> the
> > Holywood movie buisness, and thats mean lots of money.
> >
>
> And I read somewhere that the Gaming business is almost the only Hi-tech
> business
> not hit by the Nasdaq and is growing each year.
The problem with most games nowadays is that they mostly fall into three
or four genres and all games of the same genre look and behave the same. A
few years ago in the early to middle 90's they were much more creative and
diverse.
Nowadays most game companies spend too much effort in creating
high-resolution/3-D games which cost zillions to produce, instead of
focusing on creativity and playability. I don't know how many people will
buy a game that has a standard animated 320*200 graphics and only a
little background music (MOD files or the such), which has great
content. I know I would, but it is possible that I am in a minority.
> Which brings back the old
> claim that
> 90% of what people do with their computer at home is play games and that M$
> keeps
> adding bloat to its OS in a desperate attempt to keep the $ flowing. What
> MOST people
> really need is a simple gaming console that can connect to the internet
> allowing them surfing/chat/mail
> without the hassle of registry/reboot/upgrade cycles. Hmmm.....sounds like
> the Linux port to the PS2!
>
Actually, I also want to edit documents with Word or LaTeX, have Excel
Spreadsheets, program (in perl, C, Haskell, Matlab, etc.), design
web-sites, and many other things for which I'd rather have a hard-disk.
And I'm hardly the only one who also like to do some serious work with his
computer. And Linux running on an i386 does not have the
registry/reboot/upgrade cycles either, or at least not in the same
frequency of Windows.
Regards,
Shlomi Fish
> -Etay Meiri
>
> > When the big companys will think that this is the time to spread linux
> over
> > the world for home users in big mass ( if it will at all ) money will
> start
> > pour to development as quickly as possible to make the system ready to the
> > end user.
> >
> > Untill then it will be very hard to conquer the world :(
> >
>
>
>
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