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The days of walled-developer-gardens are over! The barrier to entry into the lucrative console markets are lower and lower with every day that passes .. as a d
by primitur 14y ago
The days of walled-developer-gardens are over! The barrier to entry into the lucrative console markets are lower and lower with every day that passes .. as a developer who could never afford a PS3 or XBox dev license, I've been participating as much as I can in the open hardware arena (GP32, GP2X, Wiz, Caanoo, Open Pandora) as much as possible .. and now the dream is finally coming true!
I can't wait until the day these things start shipping - I for one welcome the opportunity to have as much diversity in this market as possible ..
- muyuu 14y agoNot sure about that. Valve might want to have their own walled garden rather than ending with walled gardens. It's a tested and very profitable model.
- primitur 14y agoThe point is, between "totally tyrannically rulled wall garden", and "nicely maintained arena of culture", is a big difference! I'm perfectly fine with Linux as a dev platform. Steam on Linux is an admission that in fact, you can use Linux to make great games. Maybe I have to sign my binaries before Valve gives them to 20 million users, but okay; I'm still going to be, locally, 100% developing on Linux, nevertheless.