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"How many of you were at the Microsoft keynote? OK.
Jason Della Rocca: The room wasn't big enough!
Greg Costikyan: I don't know about you, but it made my flesh crawl!
[laughter--applause]
The HD era, bigger, louder, more photo-realistic 3-D, teams of hundreds, and big bucks to be made. Not by you and me of course. Not by the developers--developers never see a dime beyond dev funding--by the publishers (and Microsoft, presumably]. Those budgets--those teams ensure the death of innovation. This is not why I got into games. Was your allegiance bought at the price of a television?
[laughter--applause]"
"We should be giving people rehearsals for citizenship, and rehearsals for change. Now I've got to tell you, Microsoft is the walking dead.
[laughter]"
"This means that your new fancy 2 plus gigahertz CPU, and its Xenon, is going to run code as slow or slower than the 733 megahertz CPU in the Xbox 1. The PS3 will be even worse."
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Jason Della Rocca: The room wasn't big enough!
Greg Costikyan: I don't know about you, but it made my flesh crawl!
[laughter--applause]
The HD era, bigger, louder, more photo-realistic 3-D, teams of hundreds, and big bucks to be made. Not by you and me of course. Not by the developers--developers never see a dime beyond dev funding--by the publishers (and Microsoft, presumably]. Those budgets--those teams ensure the death of innovation. This is not why I got into games. Was your allegiance bought at the price of a television?
[laughter--applause]"
"We should be giving people rehearsals for citizenship, and rehearsals for change. Now I've got to tell you, Microsoft is the walking dead.
[laughter]"
"This means that your new fancy 2 plus gigahertz CPU, and its Xenon, is going to run code as slow or slower than the 733 megahertz CPU in the Xbox 1. The PS3 will be even worse."
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"How many of you were at the Microsoft keynote? OK.
Jason Della Rocca: The room wasn't big enough!
Greg Costikyan: I don't know about you, but it made my flesh crawl!
[laughter--applause]
The HD era, bigger, louder, more photo-realistic 3-D, teams of hundreds, and big bucks to be made. Not by you and me of course. Not by the developers--developers never see a dime beyond dev funding--by the publishers (and Microsoft, presumably]. Those budgets--those teams ensure the death of innovation. This is not why I got into games. Was your allegiance bought at the price of a television?
[laughter--applause]"
"We should be giving people rehearsals for citizenship, and rehearsals for change. Now I've got to tell you, Microsoft is the walking dead.
[laughter]"
"This means that your new fancy 2 plus gigahertz CPU, and its Xenon, is going to run code as slow or slower than the 733 megahertz CPU in the Xbox 1. The PS3 will be even worse."
[URL]http://ukchatforums.reserve.co.uk/display_messages.php?threadid=121412&forumid=185[/URL]
Jason Della Rocca: The room wasn't big enough!
Greg Costikyan: I don't know about you, but it made my flesh crawl!
[laughter--applause]
The HD era, bigger, louder, more photo-realistic 3-D, teams of hundreds, and big bucks to be made. Not by you and me of course. Not by the developers--developers never see a dime beyond dev funding--by the publishers (and Microsoft, presumably]. Those budgets--those teams ensure the death of innovation. This is not why I got into games. Was your allegiance bought at the price of a television?
[laughter--applause]"
"We should be giving people rehearsals for citizenship, and rehearsals for change. Now I've got to tell you, Microsoft is the walking dead.
[laughter]"
"This means that your new fancy 2 plus gigahertz CPU, and its Xenon, is going to run code as slow or slower than the 733 megahertz CPU in the Xbox 1. The PS3 will be even worse."
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