The one thing iPhone users always turn their noses up at Palm Pre owners about is the lack of games on the Pre, not only that but the lack of support of the current SDK for good games development. So when the video above showed it’s head on the web , there were many that said straight away that it’s a hoax others said maybe it wasn’t as it came from a reliable source. You can read the full story here, personally I think it could be some kind of elaborate leak from Palm to show the possible power of upcoming versions of the SDK. On the other hand it could just be a hoax, who knows I am hoping that it isn’t a hoax.
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Games on the Palm Pre are few and far between at the moment , no one would argue that it is not a weak point of the Pre. Despite the fact the Pre has an PowerVR SGX graphics chip on the inside it does virtually nothing. Most if not all of the rendering work is done by the processor and not by this powerful graphics chip.
Palm is trying to rectify this and it has taken the first step by hiring Matthew Tippett to its ranks. Matthew who began work for ATI in 2003 and subsequently started working for AMD in charge of their Linux Core Engineering program, has vast experience in the area. Seen as webOS is based on Linux OS the learning curve shouldn’t be too steep. Reading around on other blogs there is a real hope that Matthew can change the way webOS does things to make it a whole lot better for gaming.
Wether the Pre is the device to have great games on is a differnt issue and will be discussed at another time but at least there is hope for the future, no pressure Matthew.
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