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The most popular home computers have always been walled gardens where the manufacture got a cut from every peace of software sold. A huge chunk of all consumer
by onemoreact 15y ago
The most popular home computers have always been walled gardens where the manufacture got a cut from every peace of software sold. A huge chunk of all consumer software runs on them and there approval could easily make or break a software development house. We just called them 'game consoles' and conveniently forgot that their approval process was far more expensive and difficult than anything Angry Birds needed to bother with.
So, I don't think there is anything all that novel about the iOS approach and I find it hard to think of such things as an erosion of control when consoles predated the PC in most peoples homes and tended to be far more draconian than iOS. Do you even remember how bad phones and their app stores where like pre Apple?
PS: Microsoft had no problem getting skin into this game and started taking their cut well before Apple produced iOS. Despite what the article says.
- bad_user 15y agoPeople mention 'game consoles' a lot, as if that's a good thing. However, the best games have always been running on PCs first, often with exclusivity. Starcraft, The Sims, World of Warcraft, Half Life, Counter Strike, SimCity, Quake, Diablo 1 & 2 and the list can go on. I own a Wii as it came free with my Internet subscription. It's gathering dust since last year. The games are simply not addictive. And this feeling I had on PS 2 too - the games feel too dumb and non-engaging, lacking taste. Which is why I never bothered. Some people like these games consoles. I never did.
- lloeki 15y ago> However, the best games have always been running on PCs first, often with exclusivity. [list] Confirmation bias. See Mario, Contra, Chrono Trigger, Sonic, Final Fantasy, Resident Evil, Halo, Alan Wake, Uncharted, Metroid, Heavy Rain, Sega Rally, Gran Turismo, Tekken, Street Fighter, Soul Edge, Forza Motorsport and the list can go on.
- bonch 15y agoHowever, the best games have always been running on PCs first, often with exclusivity. It's ridiculous to pretend this is anything more than your opinion.
- vacri 15y agoGames consoles don't pretend to be anything other than games consoles. They don't try to make it sound like you should service all your computer needs with one. At least, I've never seen even the faintest hint of a games console implying it could be used to email the boss a copy of the spreadsheet you created on it.
- onemoreact 15y agoOriginally the PS3 was advertised as being able to run LINUX on so you can create a spreadsheet on a PS3 and email it to your boss. HDMI = 1920 x 1080 resolution screen + USB keyboard and Mouse + 60GB HDD and it's better then many office computers of that time period. They also advertised some people that built a cheap super computer, and others used them for blue ray players so they where not targeting just the gaming market.
- slowpoke 15y agoWell, and Sony got their deserved payback when they pulled that feature for no valid reason whatsoever.
- turing 15y agoGame consoles are not PCs. Consoles have never been generative devices. They are appliances.