>>>Have you tried out Intel 740 3d based card yet (assuming game developers get the stuff first.) <<<
No, I haven't. But to be clear... Intel doesn't make the motherboards, they make the chipsets. They will probably offer versions of the chipset with the graphics chip included, and the vendors can decide. But there are better chipsets nowadays - Voodoo2, Permedia 2, Riva's new chipset, all faster than the Voodoo 1.
I suspect it will be included as a standard (sort of like the rather cheap built-in sound capabilities on many motherboards), so that the market will consist of people upgrading. How large that market is depends on how good the 740 is. 3Dfx will have the best chance of surviving.
>>>Also should be a boon to game developers. DirectX seems to be problematic for many and if the 740 captures most of the market, developers could write to it directly or use the 740 OpenGL driver.<<<
Agreed. But there are still other problems - video driver setup, other cards in the system - that will always cause problems. This isn't a problem for platform games.
>>>What do you think will be the hit games, going forward. Someone think it was Buddy) on this thread suggested that FPS were becoming boring. Not sure if that's true, but it seems like there is glut of these games coming out, thanks mainly to Epic's and Id's licensing deals.<<<
Oh, definitely. With companies able to lease engines, everyone can make a FPS game. But I think there will always be a market for FPS games; too many people enjoy it.
Most games today are made for young male game enthusiasts (because the developers are, too.) I see most of the growth in going beyond this - games for non-games, like Myst; games for women, etc.
>>>Thinking out about, given the 3d performance and processing power available now, seems like there must be ways of using that power that no one has thought of yet. Wonder if, for the industry to grow, they will need to start thinking up new kinds of games.<<<
Are you suggesting that the game industry get creative? :) I think you are right, but for the most part the only thing increasing 3D performance is used for is making the next FPS/RTS/sports game look prettier. |
