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 News: EA pushing for open-platform gaming console., Hey they arent entirely evil

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post Oct 21 2007, 03:19 AM
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News: EA pushing for open-platform gaming console.
Hey they arent entirely evil

"EA is pushing all of the major console developers to work on a single open-platform console that may even stream games to the console rather than have them on a disk (with a next gen internet). "We w"...download / view the rest of the content.
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post Apr 11 2008, 06:25 AM
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The thing is, the PS3 already uses open APIs (e.g. OpenGL)… Microsoft and Nintendo just need to get on board. They could even keep their own APIs as well if they really must. (Not sure about Nintendo, but I just don’t see Microsoft getting rid of DirectX on the Xbox.)

Also, since when does wanting to save themselves time by not writing three different versions of all their games make EA not evil? :P
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