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To: Sleeperz who wrote (371)	3/22/1998 2:10:00 PM
From: Charles Hughes	Read Replies (2) of 633

>>>Also every single PSX can run any game developed for the PSX unlike the PC platform<<< Well, not quite. Japanese PSX CDs won't work on American machines without being hacked, and vice versa. Same for Europe. So you have to produce several different CDs. You can write an English-language game for a middle of the road Pentium with CDROM drive and have access to a market of 75 million machines. For more undemanding apps, that's 125 million machines, and the distribution is up to you, no strings attached. You also have the ability to start with shareware marketing on the Internet, as the Doom folks did, before selling out (and losing control and profits) to some distributor. With consoles and cartridges, that's not a choice. The upside of programming for psx is that Sony makes it so hard to get in the club that you are virtually guaranteed sales if your game if any good at all. And their support for game programmers is far better than Microsoft's support. Albeit also needed more too, since there are so many sources of PC authoring help. Cheers, Chaz

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