kobaj
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More games should be developed in DX10 now I think, the vast, vast majority of gamers are on Nvidia 8xxx or ATi 3xxx series and above now, and those that aren't, you can pick up an 8600GT dirt cheap now, which is near as makes no difference 7800GT performance, so they aren't losing anything, but are gaining DX10
Changing and upgrading to still relatively new DirectXs will require a generation at least. You have to consider several aspects of sticking with DX9.
As you stated, there is still a market for people who only have DX9 cards.
DX10/1 is new and still considered "unknown territory" eg,
-no major engines have (or CAN for that matter) swapped over to it fully, only, and officially.
-not many people can program in DX10/1 and all the "old geysers" of DX9 can't switch (teach an old dog new tricks sort of thing).
--Caveat being, getting new engines and programmers is expensive for companies.
These things and some others compound and have been keeping most games at DX9. Thus, its going to require several new programmers entering the market who have specifically been trained on DX10/1, making engines that are based around DX10/1 (and not just bad ports of DX9 engines), and a market shift to where the majority of users has DX10/1 cards. All in order to get better looking/running games of DX10/1
Oh, and vista fudged a bunch of stuff up with their DX10 flop, but those are just details--details.
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On the subject of Blackops, I'm kinda disgusted by the amount of people who got the game. Seriously, its Treyarch, people knew it would suck and have problems and Activision would totally rip everyone off, yet it grossed 50mill release day (or was it 500 mill, I dunno). Regardless, I didn't purchase it and after playing an hour or so at a friends house, I'm not missing a whole lot. This comes after forgoing food and work in order to get cod4 and MW /on release day./ Proving it's not that I'm not a fan of the series. I just like getting games worthwhile and boycotting not so worth ones.
No hard feelings for anyone here who got it, that is, /flamewar.