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Talk of Hyperion porting games to Linux on slashdot : Comment 68 of 70 | ANN.lu |
Posted by AmiTroll on 25-Apr-2003 23:58 GMT | In reply to Comment 67 (Bill Hoggett): >The Amiga versions only make money if you allocate the licensing and development costs to the other ports. They cannot make money on their own. This was true two years ago and it is equally true now, which is why you won't see things like Quake III ported, or any other game which has already been ported to Linux or Mac.
>All Amiga porting needs to be subsidised by the other versions, directly or indirectly. That is simply the state of the market. It cannot stand up for itself.
Well then that leaves the Mac side subsidising both Amiga and linux ports. Like i said, i was only speculating but only Hyperion knows what sort of time it will take and how much the licenses were but i still can't help thinking that offering ports to 3 OS's rather than just one was a factor in getting the deal done. Either way it's more games for us and, Hyperion stands to make a little cash out if it. So much the better imho.
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Comment 69 | Ben Hermans/Hyperion | Registered user | 26-Apr-2003 08:18 GMT |
Comment 70 | Steffen Haeuser | | 27-Apr-2003 08:56 GMT |
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