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Offline Matt_H

Re: AmigaOne X1000, Amiga OS 4.1.x, & Gaming
« on: February 05, 2012, 09:30:48 PM »
Since the late 1990s, the Amiga has been years behind PCs and consoles in terms of games. We have some fun Amiga-developed shareware and ports of open-source stuff ("homebrew", in modern parlance), but a single modern major commercial game is developed by hundreds if not thousands of developers, and with a budget of millions upon millions of dollars. No commercial publisher is going to come anywhere near the X1000 with its installed base in the tens of users right now, regardless of the technical capabilities of the hardware. Same thing with MorphOS and the other OS4 machines, which estimates suggest number well under 10,000 users combined.

Attracting commercial interest will only be realistic if the user base can be grown to the millions. In the meantime, it's a homebrew world we're living in.