Direct X 10/11 Question - Answer (Translated)

[TonyMontana]

They keep giving us peeks behind the curtain, sad thing is everything behind the curtain is so F'ed up we probly dont really want them to tell us how bad it REALLY is. So embarassing for such a huge company to be this screwed. It would be embarassing if this were their first MMO, but being that FFXI has been out since like 2003 this is so far past embarassing its not even funny.

[Evangela]

LAME console market...

Japanese people always develop their consoles even though it never better than PC

how could PS3 cost me 280 USD since it doesn't better than my PC?

curse you!! all of Japanese game companies except CAPC....

[KaedrianLiang]

LAME console market...

Japanese people always develop their consoles even though it never better than PC

how could PS3 cost me 280 USD since it doesn't better than my PC?

curse you!! all of Japanese game companies except CAPC....

Japan had dominated and still has the largest share of the Console market. Developing the console market is in the best interest of Japan's gaming industry. PC hardware has been primarily dominated by Silicon Valley giants and Taiwan, Japan's gaming giants have a lot less to gain in the PC industry. Seriously how many units get sold for PC versions of offline FF's worldwide compared to their console counterpart?

PC versions of any game also open the door to hacking/pirating the game. Yeah consoles get hacked as well, but not nearly on the scale and ease as PC platform. (which we see a lot of right now in FFXIV)

It's actually common practice now, that console manufacturers lose money for every unit sold, it started with the original xbox, but its made up by misc hardware sales, royalties from licensing disc format to game developers and game sales.

Basing performance of a console on it's price is folly, but nonetheless PC hardware advances every quarter or so of the year. consoles are about every 4+ years.

[SilvertearRen]

Japan had dominated and still has the largest share of the Console market.

In Japan.

Internationally, they are in the crapper.

[Adol]

In Japan.

Internationally, they are in the crapper.

Nintendo

/10char

[SilvertearRen]

Nintendo

/10char

Whose "console games" are heavily populated with shovelware. I do not consider their shovelware titles to be part of a valid calculation.

Eliminate their shovelware from the mathematics, and their Wii and DS titles become about slightly less in volume to the Xbox and the PS3/PSP titles on the market.

[darkstarpoet1]

PC versions of any game also open the door to hacking/pirating the game. Yeah consoles get hacked as well, but not nearly on the scale and ease as PC platform. (which we see a lot of right now in FFXIV)

remind me again how much personal information was taken when the sony pc system was taken down? oh wait that was the console version wasn't it? sorry go ahead and tell us how easy it is to get into the pc network while sony had to shut down completely for a while because they were completely compromised. i can't recall a pc gaming network being compromised nearly on the scale in which sony was. if i am mistaken and you can name one please feel free to let me in on that little secret.

sony just better be glad that the hacker group hasn't used those poor gamers information due to their negligence.

[Hiemdall]

Our information being taken was a by product. No ones information was uses from said attack. Blame Sony for keeping users information in plain text. SE you better be properly hashing all user information and with a strong SALT!!!

[Alegis]

I dont get it... We KNEW this game only support dx9 at the beginning, long before release, even before Alpha did start.
But the Graphics of this game are the best ones in this Genre currently and still all some ppl can do is bitching.

Why dont u all give them a break and let them work on the more important things first...

[Adol]

While I have to admit that what they have managed to do with the game visually speaking with direct x 9 is impressive, it is the same kind of "impressive" I would attribute to someone building a to-scale skyscraper using single-block lego bricks.