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Heretic.

21 days ago on Apple Is Going To Copy Microsoft Design Cues For The Next Big iPhone Update 2 recommends

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Because better = more sensible?

Perhaps they want to keep costs down, and the performance returns of using DDR5 wouldn’t be worth the cost increase of upgrading the components.

28 days ago on New XBOX & Surface 2 Concepts 2 replies

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:p hit enter before I was done.

So yeah, they want control of the developer platform; eliminating the distinction between Windows 8 games and Xbox games would make development more difficult. You could argue that they could get that control by intensely curating the store, but the problem with doing that is… Windows PC hardware isn’t homogeneous. The Xbox’s main virtue is that it provides a consistent hardware platform for devs to work with; all x86 games don’t follow those same requirements. It would require a massive porting effort to make the effort work. Furthermore, who would play all those games? There’s not an intense market for the back catalog of x86 games in the Windows 8 Store; I can’t think of… any games on there that would make the effort worth it.

28 days ago on New XBOX & Surface 2 Concepts 2 replies

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Because they want control of the developer platform.

28 days ago on New XBOX & Surface 2 Concepts 1 reply

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Thanks. I figure there are things we all don’t know, so why not help each other out?

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