Sure, the Moto Z was the first phone in the U.S. to remove the headphone jack, reportedly necessitated by its ultra-slim design, but design aside, the story was more about
the platform than the hardware.
Not exact matches
Since there's pretty much
hardware parity between the PC / XO / PS4, it's easier to port to the other console
platforms than it is Wii U. I'm guessing that's why we aren't seeing this game on the 7th Gen consoles.
In the
platform breakdown, which does not include the
hardware category, the number of nominations was similar across PC (49), PlayStation 4 (49) and Xbox One (44); games for the Nintendo Switch, which launched less
than four months ago, picked up 17 nominations.
More
than Zelda and more
than even Mario, Animal Crossing is Nintendo's
hardware functionality test bed — it's the game the company uses to push features that sit outside of what's normally expected of games on Nintendo
platforms.
The Wondermedia PRIZM
platform is ARM9 based, contains DNLA support and video decoding
hardware and is really targeted at simple internet and media presentation rather
than multitasking and a rich, fast web experience.
All of these new phones are based on the same
hardware and software
platforms, with only slightly more
than the form factor differentiating the devices.
Taking advantage of the multi-tasking power of the QNX - based software and the high performance
hardware under the hood, BlackBerry 10 delivers an «always in» app experience that is faster and so much more compelling
than the «open and close» experience which is standard today on other mobile
platforms.
New
hardware may have a different name
than Switch, but will all have the same
platform.
DS took the top
hardware spot with more
than 383K units sold, with sales representing over 86 percent of all handheld gaming
platform units sold during the month.
(8) It disregards one very painful reality: by developing games for any
platform other
than its own
hardware, Nintendo would inevitably cannibalize the sales of its own game machines (people specifically buy Nintendo
hardware to play Nintendo games).
It essentially turns Xbox into a
platform rather
than a single piece of
hardware, allowing you to keep your progress wherever you play and, on supported games, even compete with friends on both Xbox One and PC (though there are some non-Play Anywhere games that support cross-play, such as car - soccer hit Rocket League).
The Sony and Microsoft
platforms feature much stronger
hardware, with the Wii U being more comparable to the last generation of consoles rather
than the current one.
Other
than that all we can do is speculate about this until Sega reveals more — if it is an arcade title then I imagine that this will take advantage of one of Sega's new
hardware platforms (Ringedge / Ringwide or if it's being developed by Sega Europe, perhaps Europa - R could another title beyond SR3?)
Unreal 4 scales very well even to lower powered
hardware so even if the Switch can run UE4 games, it will be in lower resolution
than on other
platforms.
One thing can be said for E3 this year - it was about the games more
than anything else; With the next generation of gaming kicking into full gear with two new
platforms from Sony and Microsoft, we saw more new games from franchises old and new on such a wide array of
hardware than ever before.
While the
platform was ostensibly designed to support
hardware other
than Windows - based PCs, however, its proprietary nature led to it mostly being used for Windows applications.
The strategy diverges sharply from other
platforms like Apple TV — it's more about accommodating low - cost
hardware than enabling super-powerful apps — but there's a certain logic to it.
This new TPU chip effectively makes building AI on Google's
platform incredibly fast and efficient, more so
than with
hardware and machine learning
platforms used by competitors.
«Android Wear has a much more flexible
platform than Apple, both in terms of software and
hardware,» he told TechNewsWorld.
Much of the information here is more technical
than what most people need, but you can see detailed information about your release version of Chrome OS, the device's CPU, disk usage, its
hardware platform, and network connection information.
Salt has a KeepKey
hardware wallet and a digital lending
platform set to launch near the end of this year, altogether bringing in more
than $ 45 million in revenue thanks to 25,0000 users.
All of these three smartwatches which now share the same watchfaces also have various
hardware and software characteristics in common, including a Super AMOLED display with a resolution of 360 by 360 pixels and the fact that they all rely on the Tizen operating system rather
than Google's
platform, Android Wear 2.0.
It essentially turns Xbox into a
platform rather
than a single piece of
hardware, allowing you to keep your progress wherever you play and, on supported games, even compete with friends on both Xbox One and PC (though there are some non-Play Anywhere games that support cross-play, such as car - soccer hit Rocket League).
Some developers and
hardware makers are concerned that this new wearable Android OS may be less open
than the original mobile
platform, although it is too early to tell how Google will approach this.»
Apple then provided them with great tools and an extremely consistent
hardware platform to code for, which made development for iOS a lot more predictable and frictionless
than on competing
platforms.
Apple might pride itself on competing in more crucial areas
than hardware size, and that's admirable — but the world has changed, and the average size of Android phones has skyrocketed almost as quickly as that
platform's popularity.
The
platform thrives on openness, which Valve takes to mean letting
hardware makers iterate in the living room at a much faster clip
than they're currently able to, among others facets.
Google (and others) work on the core operating system, but OEMs are free to modify the experience to suit their branding requirements and make
hardware that is more varied
than any other mobile
platform today.
While these new
hardware platforms will be better in some areas
than the previous generation, we're not expecting huge power savings, although the graphical abilities should be boosted, along with AI handling.
To that, I hope Connect is August's answer, because
platforms are now much more important
than hardware when it comes to the Internet of Things.
This tablet will be brought to market by
hardware hard - hitters like EVGA and PYN Technologies, taking Project KAI to a proverbial new level with what NVIDIA describes as a «complete
platform» rather
than «just the
hardware» as the original Nexus 7 was (essentially).
While some of the latest Android Wear
hardware does add a speaker (which has yet to be actually enabled by the software), the experience on the latest devices isn't much different
than when the
platform first launched.
Keep in mind we're seeing the same thing on the new Moto 360, so this is less an indication of
hardware trouble
than quirks of the Android Wear
platform itself.
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