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Epic's Tim Sweeney on Mobile Gaming
- aphexairlines 16y agoSo Epic doesn't make PC games anymore either?
- phrotoma 16y agoThey make the Unreal game engine. It's been powering dozens of console and PC games for years.
- aphexairlines 16y agobut... when a consumer gets the PC and they wanna play a game that uses Epic technology, it’s got to be a consistent experience, and Epic can’t guarantee that.
- mgcross 16y agoFTA: "If you took the underlying NGP hardware and shipped Android on it, you'd find far far less performance on Android. Let's say you took an NGP phone and made four versions of it. Each one would give you a different amount of memory and performance based on the crap [the carriers] put on their phone." He lost me there, is he saying that custom carrier launchers, etc. impede access to the hardware? Even with the NDK?
- phrotoma 16y agoI don't think he means they're impeding access to hardware. I think he's talking about resources used up by bloatware.
- statictype 16y agoCan we please stop posting every snarky comment Gruber has to make about Apple's competitors. The comments made by Sweeney are certainly interesting so why not link directly to the article? Gruber's a good writer and I read most of what he writes on Daring Fireball but he often goes into modes like he's in now, which means we're going to see a constant stream of links to articles saying bad things about Android with a single line at the end from Gruber referencing Fred Wilson or whoever was the latest vocal person to support Apple's competitors.
- pohl 16y agoDirect link article here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2413254 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2413254