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@Svartalf:
I highly doubt that any company is seriously thinking about Linux as a game changing system like the switch from dos to windows. I doubt they even do it in regard to MACs, and they are probably right.
Especially now that Microsoft got back on track with the not quite as bad Windows7.
There is a general move to multi-platform games for some years however, and some companies are realizing that MACs (and to a lesser amount Linux) might be a small but also profitable market if games are made with portability in mind and thus costs to port to yet another system is low.
You can see this btw in many remarks about Linux ports, that due to the myriads of different Linux systems official support is too difficult, meaning for the profits that could be made its still too costly (id is a case in point as they don't officially support Linux).
I highly doubt that any company is seriously thinking about Linux as a game changing system like the switch from dos to windows. I doubt they even do it in regard to MACs, and they are probably right.
Especially now that Microsoft got back on track with the not quite as bad Windows7.
There is a general move to multi-platform games for some years however, and some companies are realizing that MACs (and to a lesser amount Linux) might be a small but also profitable market if games are made with portability in mind and thus costs to port to yet another system is low.
You can see this btw in many remarks about Linux ports, that due to the myriads of different Linux systems official support is too difficult, meaning for the profits that could be made its still too costly (id is a case in point as they don't officially support Linux).
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