http://www.antimodal.com/archives/56 Art, technology, and hype from the desk of Brandon Rickman Fri, 01 Jun 2007 04:37:30 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8 hourly 1 http://www.antimodal.com/archives/56/comment-page-1#comment-76 William Wed, 26 May 2004 21:17:14 +0000 http://www.antimodal.com/archives/56#comment-76 I haved talked a little bit about the different axes of genre formation, and platform is one of those axes, I think. I think there are other considerations, too - in some ways, we can describe a PC as a platform. In another sence, a modern gaming PC has less in common with CGA-based 386 than it does with a PS/2. And convergance happens: I've played emulated games on my PC with a joystick and video output to a TV monitor, and now I'm playing FFXI on a PS/2 with a hard drive and a keyboard. The Infinium Phantom, if it ships, will complete the occupation of the hybrid space. But there are still real differences in the culture and feel of PC and console gaming - and I attribute some of that to the legacy of television in the console (connotations: social space, the living room, children, family space, shared object of vision/gaze), and the legacy of the PC as a general-purpose device (connotations: work/private space, the office, adults, communication with other households, personal object of vision/gaze). But they remediate games on each other, and in other media as well - Super Mario World released for the GBA, for example. I haved talked a little bit about the different axes of genre formation, and platform is one of those axes, I think. I think there are other considerations, too – in some ways, we can describe a PC as a platform. In another sence, a modern gaming PC has less in common with CGA-based 386 than it does with a PS/2. And convergance happens: I’ve played emulated games on my PC with a joystick and video output to a TV monitor, and now I’m playing FFXI on a PS/2 with a hard drive and a keyboard. The Infinium Phantom, if it ships, will complete the occupation of the hybrid space.
But there are still real differences in the culture and feel of PC and console gaming – and I attribute some of that to the legacy of television in the console (connotations: social space, the living room, children, family space, shared object of vision/gaze), and the legacy of the PC as a general-purpose device (connotations: work/private space, the office, adults, communication with other households, personal object of vision/gaze). But they remediate games on each other, and in other media as well – Super Mario World released for the GBA, for example.

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