Valve Says Choice to Make DX10 Vista-Only Hurt PC Gaming

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Valve Says Choice to Make DX10 Fista-Only Hurt PC Gaming
Erris writes "Valve's President Gabe Newell is calling Microsoft's choice to make DirectX 10 Fista-only a 'terrible mistake' that has harmed gaming. His company's latest hardware study shows the strategy has not moved gamers onto Fista. The result is that almost no one is using the newest version of DirectX, and companies are shying away from creating new input devices that support it. Nine months after release, after Christmas, after graduation, and with school mostly back in session, still only 8% of gamers are using it." Update: 08/27 21:09 GMT by Z : An AC points out that these numbers may be framed poorly given uptake numbers for XP's release.

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Author: Erris (posted by Zonk)
Category: microsoft
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[buzzmong]

Yay, at last someone big has said something.


Which is what the rest of us have been saying for the last 6 months.

[FatherJack]

It doesn't help that quite a few Steam games don't work with Fista - Dark Messiah springs mostly immediately to mind - so gamers are reluctant to move if they don't have the option to dual-boot.