[casual_games] languages... (that's an 's' at the end!)

[Jim Buck]

I think even 80% is a very high guess. If you want to target "casual 
people" with "casual game", I would think that targeting Windows 98 
(*maybe* SE) is the sweet spot.


At 08:58 AM 10/6/2005, Lionel barret De Nazaris wrote:
>got that : http://www.wininsider.com/news/?8359.
>the bottom line (according to the source) :  "That means Microsoft 
>distributed 58.8 percent as many copies of SP2 as of Windows XP."
>Even if  XP has 80 % (a wild guess) of the windows installed PCs, it's not 
>very encouraging ...
>Maybe in one year....
>
>L.
>
>
>Charles Parcell wrote:
>>I believe that I saw somewhere that Windows XP has a 65% penetration at 
>>the moment. I don't think that it made a distinction between SP versions 
>>though.
>>
>>Charles P.
>>
>>
>>Lionel barret De Nazaris wrote:
>>>Jonas Beckeman wrote:
>>>>Seems I'm the only one who's gonna stand up for .NET here, so I'd better do
>>>>it tall...
>>>>
>>>>Before I get off on how great it is, let me state some problems that may be
>>>>enough to make you look in other directions:
>>>>* .NET games need the .NET framework. The 2.0 beta is 25 MB.
>>>>* You'll probably want to use Managed DirectX. The distribution model is
>>>>still very unclear to me, I don't know myself how large the add-on is, or
>>>>even how to obtain it without downloading the DirectX SDK
>>>A friend told me that the .Net Framework is included in the XP Service 
>>>Pack 2, if so, the problem of the huge download could be avoided.
>>>Does anybody could confirm this ? And do we have numbers about the % of 
>>>penetration of XP Service Pack 2 on the machine of the potential players 
>>>? Well, a percentage of machine with XP Service Pack 2 on the global 
>>>number of windows anyway.
>>>
>>>Lionel
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