Android Gets a Console

[draythefingerless]

i fear that people will take this as some kind of oooh android AAA games, when the language of android, java, is horrendous for making heavier games(see: minecraft). but as what they are advertising, it seems really nice. just dont expect the new gears of war to run on it or sth.(then again, given how old xbox is...)

Apparently the Unity engine will run on it, so I doubt that will be the case.

wich is an engine VERY famous for app games. xD

 

[Rainboq]

i fear that people will take this as some kind of oooh android AAA games, when the language of android, java, is horrendous for making heavier games(see: minecraft). but as what they are advertising, it seems really nice. just dont expect the new gears of war to run on it or sth.(then again, given how old xbox is...)

Apparently the Unity engine will run on it, so I doubt that will be the case.

wich is an engine VERY famous for app games. xD

Not only that, but numerous others, to name a few: Endless Space and the Battlestar Galactica MMO... thing.

 

[Yuri Albuquerque]

i fear that people will take this as some kind of oooh android AAA games, when the language of android, java, is horrendous for making heavier games(see: minecraft). but as what they are advertising, it seems really nice. just dont expect the new gears of war to run on it or sth.(then again, given how old xbox is...)

This is misleading.

Games made for Android must run on a Java Virtual Machine, but Java is not the only language for doing this. There is also JRuby, Groovy, Jython...

And, of course, you could make a HTML5 + Javascript game and use Open Web App (if I'm not mistaken, I'm on a phone and it's difficult to search) to ship it without a browser.

And all of those languages, by extension of having to run on the JVM, are slow as fuck. The functional languages are probably even slower than Java, just as they are slower than C when they're compiled. This console is going to suck balls.

Except for the last option I said. That is, doing it in HTML5 + Javascript. It will run on a browser, not a JVM.