Re:Gaming in HTML5: the future is now
by extension on Wednesday November 09, 2011 @02:29PM
(#3216996)
And even when phones are 15x faster, people will expect games to be 15x prettier. Mobile browser games may one day carve out a low-tech niche of sorts, similar to how Flash games have carved a niche on the desktop, but they are never going to be in the same category as native games.
[ Parent
| on HN ]
Re:Gaming in HTML5: the future is now
by noduerme on Wednesday November 09, 2011 @03:08PM
(#3217164)
Of course. By definition, they can't be. But JS games also will always be a class below Flash games, because the language is sloppy and completely interpreted at runtime. The fact that people think it'll be a replacement just shows how much money computer-illiterate business school graduates living with their parents in Bel Air still have to throw around, taking power lunches and acting like they have a freakin clue what they're talking about. I've been working for these types of people since "Bel Air" was "Oakland Hills", "HTML5" was "E-commerce", and IE 3 didn't play nicely with Netscape. But the smell of bullshit hype stay the same.