Comments on: I like to call it “Interoperability”

By: john

john — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 00:13:39 +0000

@Phil:

You are right that the same game is not necessarily the same across platforms, but that’s also part of the problem – game designers don’t treat it as one cross-platform game, but rather as different games with the same name that happen to be on separate platforms.

I can see only a few valid cases where a game couldn’t be truly cross platform and where interoperability wouldn’t be possible.

I know this kind of behavior won’t change, and that interoperability is not and never will be a priority for developers, but as I said – a guy can dream can’t he?

By: Phil

Phil — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 21:24:57 +0000

One thing that comes to mind is that the same game is *not* necessarily the same across all consoles. Each version has differences in gameplay, etc that might make interoperability impossible.

Just my too scents…..

By: john

john — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 16:53:53 +0000

Yep, It’d be great, and is probably 100% possible, but nobody is willing to do it. They think by NOT doing it they’ll entice us to buy their console instead. What they don’t understand is that I’m not GOING to buy the console, I’m going to buy the game on PC. I already OWN a pc, why would I want to buy a console to do something I can already do with what I already own (and at higher resolutions )

By: sayerbloke

sayerbloke — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 10:16:46 +0000

Test Drive Unlimited is another such example.

For online play, the consoles each have their own server and the PC has another.

When the game was being developed, all the games forums were talking about how great it’d be if everyone could compete against each other on one server, but sadly it wasn’t to be.