Comment by cptaj
3 years ago
This. Drives. Me. NUTS.
Just make games! Its that simple. Those are the experiences, those are the killer apps, they are the metaverse! They literally just need to get out of the way with their corporate bullshit.
3 years ago
This. Drives. Me. NUTS.
Just make games! Its that simple. Those are the experiences, those are the killer apps, they are the metaverse! They literally just need to get out of the way with their corporate bullshit.
Yeah, actually you're on to something. I admired the hardware but you just nailed the feeling I was getting from this presentation but couldn't describe.
It's the old print magazine adverts for the Atari ST or Amiga or early PC's... and shown on the screen was a spreadsheet...(and don't get me wrong, I love a good spreadsheet, but.... )
I think any games released for that system will be crippled by the controls, like smartphone games. Gestures and eye tracking are probably just as imprecise as touchscreens.
To be fair, watching the presentation, I'm pretty sure I saw a handheld controller in use for gaming.
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Apple has done everything in their power to strangle and kill gaming on MacOS, they'd probably rather scrap the whole product than bring it back.
Everything in their power like bringing Hideo Kojima's latest game to macOS as a native port?
No, like completely trashing OpenGL and OpenCL to make sure nothing ever runs on their machines unless it's specifically spon fed to them through Metal (while having like an 8% market share so it's not cost effective to do so). Even Linux is better for gaming with Proton.
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If the goal posts was just to make a billion dollars they could make games. But the goal post is to make 100 billion dollars. So here we are.
I agree! What they should do is launch this at a developer event and provide some information and tooling, then get out of the way so that developers can release games through a proven distribution method with free/freemium/paid/subscription options...