Topic: Games will no longer have to be ported.

[Epitaph]

Hey everyone, my friend just sent me this link and if its legit this means that inthe future games may not have to be ported but just ran though this program to make it work on other systems.

http://www.transitive.com/news_quicktransit.htm

Could be the future of games.

[kurst_chao3030]

dude, thats awsome...

[couchmonkey]

Sounds nice, but I'll withhold judgement for now because, as the article says, "Near-native computational power"...so far no tool like this has been able to replace proper programming, and the end result could just be inexpensive and sloppy ports.  Still, with improvements in these tools and more powerful hardware maybe something like this really will eliminate the need for porting.  That would be awesome.

[MaleficentOgre]

While it looks interesting, you know good and well M$ doesn't want halo on revolution, Big N doesn't want Zelda on PS3, and Sony doesn't want ICO (most overrated game EVER) on Xbox 2.  We also don't know what type of media all the consoles will be using.  we know about blue-ray and sony, but nintendo's and Microsofts are up in the air.  They very well could change.  This is one issue that all three big boys will work together to stop from working legally.

[MaleficentOgre]

I know that this technology is meant to help developers and keep cost down, but there is a huge chance that people with time and money can get their hands on this and use it to run illegal operations.  Besides, If this technology existed previously it still would be hard to easily port ps2 games to cube because of the difference in machinary.

[KDR_11k]

Ever heard of Renderware? Flick a compiler switch and you get a different console version. Yet the Cube still didn't get GTA3.