[casual_games] Impact of Netbooks on PC Development?

[Matthew Wegner]

Not sure on impact of hardware demographics, but they might be showing up in
hardware surveys (most run an Intel GMA GPU, so not sure if they'll show up
distinctly):

http://unity3d.com/webplayer/hwstats/
http://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/

I do know that ASUS has been seeking out games for OEM bundling, though...

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On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 4:53 PM, Juan Gril <juangril at jojugames.com> wrote:


> 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.

>

> Thoughts?

>

> Juan

>

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