Half-life 2 exclusive to PC's with Nvidia cards only? http://spong.com/index.asp?art=4697
The news wasn't posted on the 1st of April, but I'm still hoping it's a joke. Definately not a good path for PC gaming..
It's a good way of ensuring games becoming coasters if you happen to upgrade your gfx card to another brand when a better option becomes available or if nVidia happens to bite the big one. It's a silly idea if it's true.
And yeh, Valve.. I don't think they've announced a Half Life 2 at all actually? I'm still waiting for Team Fortress 2.
quote:December 18, 1998
Well folks, Team Fortress ? 2 will be here shortly and community sites are popping up all over the web. Clans are starting to form, Tournaments are being planned, and information pages are being posted. If you haven't checked out the sites yet, be sure to visit our links section or visit PlanetFortress.com for more information.
lol - that's awesome, I still have an Atari 2600 lying around with a half-working controller, I can't wait!!!
As a side note. Making games for a single piece of hardware is a stupid idea and I seriously doubt anyone would do it, especially with all the APIs we have for that stuff as well. Still some more standards and standard sharing between GPU manufacturers would be nice.
Valve have pretty canny business people, I doubt they'd limit their market... more likely they would have "features" limited to the hardware, so the game isn't limited to those with specific cards... this way, the game would become a "must have" for people with that card due to the extra features without alienating the rest of the audience... it would be mutually beneficial to both Valve and nVidia in that case.
Thats what I say, but I should be sleeping.
Scott.
PS. Redwyre, people have a GUID's now? What next? [:P]
I don't think so really, maybe a bundle package or soemthing, like a gf4mx or something with a whole half life pack.
But I doubt taht tehy would add extra features just for a particular card, maybe different rendering paths, but currently both cards are at a level where all effects can be implented on them.
I'm sure a lot of developers would love the luxury of a 5-6 year developing cycle. [:)].. how could you even prepare for a machine 6 years in the future.. I'm sure those titles have gone through many iterations and changes during development (Duke Nukem Forever, Team Fortress 2).
As games get bigger, and bigger, I wouldn't be all that surprised when we'll hear of games that are a decade long in the making [;)]
Well even if they do make it exculsive, or features exclusive to certain hardware specs it won't matter.
It will take maybe a week tops for the cracking community to fix things up.
So it will be ready when the games is released 2 weeks after the crack :)
And yeah anyone who is anything but a casual gamer wants an ATI card.
I mean really the 9700 pro has been out for like a year and the latest nVidia card still under performs it.
just like with C&C 2 Tiberian Sun, everyone had been waiting years, it was like the most anticipated game for a few years, and then it finally can out and it was shit.
So i just went back to playing total annihilation, "haha lets pick up their commander so he can do any thing" "what a D-Gun thats unfair"
Back on the NVidia topic - I guess Spong might have crapped on a bit, and (like what others here have said already) that you'd see features designed to work on Nvidia hardware. http://biz.yahoo.com/rc/030410/tech_nvidia_electronicarts_1.html
Too true, next it will be on IBM built hardrives only, if you want ot restrict the games to one card make console games, leave the freedom of PC's alone. Eep 200th post!!