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

[BRENT SILBY]

Jim 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.

On my webgame site, only about 10% of visitors use win98. The rest us XP. Have you looked at "thecounter.com"? Its a pretty good indication of what's going on out there.

http://www.thecounter.com/stats/2005/September/os.php

Cheers,
Brent.
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VIDEOGAMES
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jim Buck" <jbuck at twitchythumbs.com>
To: "IGDA Casual Games SIG Mailing List" <casual_games at igda.org>
Sent: Friday, October 07, 2005 5:17 AM
Subject: Re: [casual_games] languages... (that's an 's' at the end!)


>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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