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Originally Posted by EowynCarter
True. But if you want the game your making to work on more than one console, you think it that way from the start. Most games for ps3 goes out on Xbox too. wii is different.
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Wii is
very different. For that matter, there are whole classes of games aimed at handheld platforms which are very different animals from console games.
Part of my question about making my game work on more than one platform is how much I
want to.
Portability is possible but hardly easy, especially when your software depends heavily upon underlying hardware, and large parts of your code will be device specific by necessity. If I've acquired significant expertise in coding for say, the Xbox, and have titles that are doing well and paying the bills, I may wonder how much I really
want to expand. I'll need to bring on developers experienced on the other platform to do it well, and while I'll double my chances for success, I may double them for failure: there's no guarantee my Xbox title will sell to PS3 gamers.
I may just decide I'm comfortable right were I am, thanks, and if you want to play my games, get an Xbox.
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Dennis