{"id":1617,"date":"2013-05-22T13:59:45","date_gmt":"2013-05-22T13:59:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/?p=1617"},"modified":"2013-05-22T13:59:45","modified_gmt":"2013-05-22T13:59:45","slug":"same-old-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/2013\/05\/same-old-one\/","title":{"rendered":"Same old one"},"content":{"rendered":"

Except for some game developers and game journalists, no one cares about having a "pure" game machine. Actually, the opposite. <\/p>\n

So basically they are building -Sony, Valve and Nintendo included- that living room PC, that living room computer that does it all, because the market is asking for it: no one likes to have four boxes, 15 cables, a remote dying from switching input everyday and different UI\/UX between each machine, which is the current situation for a lot of people.<\/p>\n

Under this light, I think the Xbox One is technically strong with a software layer\/integration with mobile and tablets that competition doesn\u2019t really have and is extremely complex to build.<\/p>\n

For the rest, well I don\u2019t care. I told you thousands of time that proprietary, closed platforms should be avoided as much as possible. This is where to me I\u2019d rather have people buy Win8 licenses and stay hardware and distribution free<\/strong> because when a company owns the hardware, software and distribution you really are in a different position that we game developers -outside the 0.1% studios which can tackle that kind of game production- don\u2019t want to be in again amirite? I mean if we ever learn from our mistakes, musician mistakes, directors mistakes etc. That\u2019s a lot of facts now.<\/p>\n

As creators we want to be on top, not below. There\u2019s another thing. <\/p>\n

Legacy.<\/p>\n

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This is Tera: City of Skulls, a 1986 French RPG DOS game from Loriciel running on Windows 8, flawlessly. I\u2019m so used to that level of backward compatibility I don\u2019t know how you do, guys. It\u2019s fucking fantastic.<\/p>\n

As time passes by the ability to have a real memory, a real library of our gaming past is more and more awesome and it will become more and more important as population ages especially with inter-generational links around computer game culture, especially with hundreds, thousands of dollars spent on game downloads you can\u2019t transfer. It\u2019s not just about legacy, it\u2019s about having your mind at ease knowing that you will not get screwed, maybe ever. People are searching for solutions when they see that all of their 60 bucks games will not run on MS and Sony\u2019s next boxes. The backlash\u2019s started.  <\/p>\n

Which is why you should -no offense to console companies- stay the fuck away of these consoles. Games are everywhere and the most diverse, thriving, stable place to play is still a Windows PC. Or Steam, if you prefer to call it this way but it\u2019s not just Steam, though.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Except for some game developers and game journalists, no one cares about having a "pure" game machine. Actually, the opposite. So basically they are building -Sony, Valve and Nintendo included- that living room PC, that living room computer that does it all, because the market is asking for it: no one likes to have four […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1617"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1617\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}