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Many game companies can target this platform much more easily than the iPhone/Android handsets as it also works off XNA. Seems like its lack of OpenGL offsets
by glhaynes 16y ago
Many game companies can target this platform much more easily than the iPhone/Android handsets as it also works off XNA.
Seems like its lack of OpenGL offsets that a good bit... yes, a lot of Xbox/Windows games will be easy to port, but it seems like more ports will likely to be coming from iPhone/Android.
- glhaynes 16y agoFollowing up to myself here: this could have some interesting benefits for Microsoft, too — iPhone has the most/best games right now, but Android is selling a ton of units so lots of folks are thinking about porting their iPhone games to Android. If WP7 was the inverse of what it is (if it had OpenGL and no XNA), it'd be seen as the third platform, something to maybe, possibly consider porting to once you'd ported to Android. That doesn't seem desirable at all. At least with XNA, they'll have the possibility of getting a lot of different games than what is available on iPhone and Android... some differentiation, which is exactly what they need.