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I've seen this analogy before and it is completely nonsensical. If Microsoft and Sony were like Apple, you wouldn't have titles like Call of Duty on both platf
by krschultz 17y ago
I've seen this analogy before and it is completely nonsensical.
If Microsoft and Sony were like Apple, you wouldn't have titles like Call of Duty on both platforms. Everything would have to have been created originally for one console, and one console only. Otherwise it wouldn't have been "originally" created for it.
Is that what we see in the console world? Of course not. Sometimes the console makers compete for exclusives, but they are exclusive because the company writing the game is doing it that way, not because the console makers are forcing them to.
Apple specifically tries to prevent that kind of cross platform thing from happening on the iPhone.
- czhiddy 17y agoApps like Mint and Facebook exist across the various mobile platforms (namely Android + iPhone). Apple doesn't seem to ban apps that are cross-platform as long as they're written with native APIs. Now imagine if you took Call of Duty on PS3, and did a hacky port where you stubbed DirectX code for the PSGL calls, and used some common denominator between PS3's online service and XBox Live. I'd highly doubt Microsoft would let this go to market, given how poorly it'd perform. Now imagine if these ports were all automated by a third party layer. In fact, I'm curious to see how many successful games out there use something like Unity to allow PS3/XBox/Wii ports without any code changes.