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

[Lionel barret De Nazaris]

I don't like it but you're damn right. I can feel it in my bones ;)
Lionel.

Jim Buck wrote:
> 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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