[Beowulf] Microsofts trick - was AMD reveals potent parallel processing breakthrough

[Joe Landman]

On 5/8/13 8:55 AM, atchley tds.net wrote:

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> Also, sales of all consoles are down. The new Wii has hardly made a 
> blip in the market. Some speculate that the era of consoles is past 
> given how many people game on their phones and tablets.
>

The death of the console has been a nearly constant prediction for the 
last 15-20 years.  I heard it back when OpenGL Doom came out, and 
various folks predicted that packaged software would be the end of 
consoles as we know it.

Hence I tend to be skeptical on this possibility, though I have to say, 
I am seeing many more people playing games on their pads and phones.  I 
think the consoles will adapt, and you'll see the phones become 
controllers to hook into consoles.

Tangential to this, I've got lots of apps for my iPhone/iPad that 
interact with my Roku.  Something tells me that using the phones/pads as 
interfaces to the games is coming soon if its not here now.  I don't 
expect to see all out replacement, more like coopetition.

> Scott
>
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