[casual_games] Impact of Netbooks on PC Development?

[Juan Gril]

Lennard, they are mostly selling more netbooks with XP installed than Linux.

Thanks Ken. How about performance? Is the Atom capable enough to run the
current crop of games you guys are selling on the Arcade? (those which
support 800x600 at least).

Juan


On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 5:50 PM, Kenneth S Rosman <krosman at real.com> wrote:


>   Agree with James, 1024X768 is not really doable on my Asus Wind.  User

> can switch to that resolution but it is not native and does not display

> really well.  I would guess that the majority of the "casual consumers" are

> not aware of how to switch screen resolutions.

>

> As for popularity in the US versus rest of the world I would say they are

> selling pretty darn good here in the  states too.

>

>

>

> *From:* casual_games-bounces at igda.org [mailto:

> casual_games-bounces at igda.org] *On Behalf Of *James C. Smith

> *Sent:* Monday, December 15, 2008 4:10 PM

> *To:* 'IGDA Casual Games SIG Mailing List'

> *Subject:* Re: [casual_games] Impact of Netbooks on PC Development?

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>

> I think the limited screen resolution is going to cause a lot of problems

> for some games.  I guess we need to stop assuming that every computer can

> handle 1024 X 768 or higher.  1024 x 600 is common on the netbooks.

>

>

>

> *From:* casual_games-bounces at igda.org [mailto:

> casual_games-bounces at igda.org] *On Behalf Of *Juan Gril

> *Sent:* Monday, December 15, 2008 3:53 PM

> *To:* IGDA Casual Games SIG Mailing List

> *Subject:* [casual_games] Impact of Netbooks on PC Development?

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>

> I'm just curious if any Casual PC developer out there is testing their

> games on the current crop of netbooks (Atom chipsets). We don't see it as

> much of an impact in the US I guess, but outside of the US those laptops are

> selling like hotcakes. Which means pretty soon (if not now already) we are

> going to have a huge audience wanting to play casual games from those

> machines.

>

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