Last year was a big year for video gaming. Check out some of the numbers! WOW! There is no mention of PC gaming in this article, so it is not clear to me whether PC gaming is included in these numbers.
BTW: My husband is anxiously awaking Halo 3 on the PC. A Halo 3/Blackbird combo would be right up his alley :).
Jan 24, 2008
Obviously this guy has not played Final Fantasy or any of the Sims Games. I was bawling at the end of Final Fantasy X and I was terribly upset when one of my Sim families was killed by a stove fire — it was awful!
Anyhow, be entertained by Gore Verbinski’s incoherent rambling. Given the Pirates’ movies, I don’t think he has the skill (yet) to pull off something emotional. Regardless of his skill, he does have a point because games with strong story elements, character development, and deep emotional investment have very broad appeal, not only to the male core demographic, but also to females and folks over 35.
Posted by James Brightman on Monday, March 10, 2008
Guess what quadrant of Moore’s model CPU’s and GPU’s are in. Intel is going to into High-end graphics to protect it’s position in the processor market. What is not mentioned is that Intel’s direct CPU competition, AMD, now owns ATI. I guess Intel couldn’t strike a deal with NVidia. Still this move doesn’t seem to be too too much of a stretch for Intel. I wonder, though, how their move will change integrated motherboard architecture. As it is inside of past computers I’ve built and the Blackbird I now own, the video cards suck down quite a bit of power and as performance has increased, require a lot of hardware to keep the components and the inside of the computer relatively cool. This translates into the graphics hardware occupying a lot of space. Heat and power consumption are a tough problem, so I imagine if Intel can handle that problem better than AMD and NVidia, they would have meaningful differentiation, especially in laptops (gaming and media center laptops are HOT). I’m not sure how important increasing interface througut is to customers outside of hardcore gamers. But as a first go around, it would be good to extract some cash from some of them to help pay for a more mainstream solution.
Speaking of heat, has anyone ever thought about how to take the heat thrown off of hot processors and use it to power something else? An analogy would be regenerative braking in cars.
Here’s what generating cash in video gaming.
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Ladies (and gentlemen, too), fire up your Blackbirds. “The Sims 3” is coming in 2009. I’m psyched and I think the release of this game is an excellent opportunity to bring something special from Blackbird to the ladies who have made “The Sims” series of video games so wildly popular. Judging from the preliminary description of the game engine, this game is going to need a lot of PC horse power to play smoothly. I can’t wait!
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