Microsoft XNA - the future of directX?

[ThePentiumGuy]

hey guys,
check out this link:

www.Microsoft.com/XNA

i heard somewhere that you can develop with this to create Xbox games :-D

what are your opinions on this? ( i know there isnt a lot of info out )

 

[samsmithnz]

bring it on i say. it looks very interesting.

 

[iebidan]

Microsoft said a couple days ago that theyll be creating a common development platform for game development, so yes, looks like this XNA will be used too to develop games for the XBox or for a PC running Windows

 

[samsmithnz]

Close, but apparently this XNA will be multiplatform, meaning that your code will work on the Xbox AND your pc. They are building a large amount of redunancy into it so that its super back compabilble... probably like the .net framework 1.0 and 1.1

 

[Menge]

i just find it interesting (VERY, in fact) that the X-Box 2 will be a PowerPC and the PC is x86.... and that they supposedly will be integrated by that....

 

[ThePentiumGuy]

i just find it interesting (VERY, in fact) that the X-Box 2 will be a PowerPC and the PC is x86.... and that they supposedly will be integrated by that....

whats an x86?

 

[Menge]

x86 is the pc ibm architecture.
powerpc is the G3/4/5 architecture (which is oddly enough done by IBM lol)