DICE - Linux only needs one 'killer' game to explode


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"It would only take one "killer" game for the Linux platform to explode its way into mainstream gaming, DICE creative director Lars Gustavsson told Polygon, revealing that the development studio would "strongly" like to get into Linux."

 

http://www.polygon.com/2013/10/12/4826190/linux-only-needs-one-killer-game-to-explode-says-battlefield-director

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Nobody buys an OS for a single game, especially when that single game would be available on other platforms as well, and noone would make a triple A game for just linux, that would be suicide, even HL3 which whenever it does arrive is completely going to fail to meet expectations anyway, and most of the HL gamers have grown out of it by now/then.

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Vista sales shot up when they released Halo 2 as a Vista exclusive (regardless of outcome) - it's within the realms of possibility.

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Hmm maybe, but I think it'd need some kind of new controller to make it really special.

SteamOS. Steam Controller. Half-Life 3.

 

It isn't entirely impossible for Linux to gain significant market share among gamers thanks to Valve's plans.

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Vista sales shot up when they released Halo 2 as a Vista exclusive (regardless of outcome) - it's within the realms of possibility.

 

But Windows had an already vast and mature productivity toolset that Linux -while not small and unimpressive- has.

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Well, mantle being open and everything, when AMD ports it DICE would have pretty much already coded some of its games... then indeed, gaming would begin to arise finally in linux. I for one would buy another small SSD just for SteamOS and play it in there :D

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No studio would make a triple A game a Linux exclusive. The market share is too small to even consider it. SteamOS might increase that share but Windows will always be the lead PC platform and I cannot see that change any time soon

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It would certainly help for more people to start using it.

But explode? No.

I think Valve will do that all on their own, since they're powerful and motivated.

 

It won't take Windows out, but it'll have a hell of a lot better presence than anything else has managed I'm guessing.

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It seems impossible to know how it's going to pan out to be honest, but I'm just looking forward to seeing what happens generally. Should help shake up the market a bit no matter what happens :) 

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An interesting option would for Value to ship Steam OS and Half Life 3 together. It would be a bold move but imagine something similar to the Ubuntu WUBI installer (that I believe is no longer supported) that installs Half Life 3 and Steam OS and updates the boot menu. Most users would be a little confused at first but it wouldn't be too difficult to explain and I am sure with the right marketing speak they could sell it to non-techie people quite easily. What Valve really need to do is make sure that they are rock solid on hardware support which is possible with them working so closely with AMD and Nvidia which are always the biggest issues for new users. If they can be sure that the hardware it is running on is supported then they could offer Steam OS as an "enhanced experience" install option or similar. Would be quite an interesting move IMHO.

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There's already been some good commercial games ported over, even before Valve ported Steam and a few of their games, didn't do too much though. Trick is getting a big studio to commit that kind of money into what's going to be a big roll of the dice, no pun intended, namely big dollars, tiny market share, never mind actually convincing people to migrate to an entirely different OS, gain one game, lose a lot more. It would be good for the Linux community sure, but explosive? Nah.

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No studio would make a triple A game a Linux exclusive. The market share is too small to even consider it. SteamOS might increase that share but Windows will always be the lead PC platform and I cannot see that change any time soon

 

I'm not so sure about this. With MS recent bad PR and some simply not liking the new windows OS, anything is possible. install a free OS.. then install steam and buy only the games.. that's pretty compelling to move to Linux. Now that AMD supports drivers for Linux.. I'm not so sure.. but this is just my opinion.

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Except those who haven't tried windows 8 and thus aren't happy with it because they think it's weird and mysterious, would be even more unhappy and confused by any linux system.

 

and most people don't know what an OS or linux is anyway, they have a hard enough time grasping the concept of multiple windows versions. or the fact Office isn't windows and visa versa. 

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