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Justsignedup on March 11, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: Direct3D to OpenGL abstraction layer

"the advantage of a console: hardware is fixed". YEP! Why use an abstraction layer when you can just code to the metal.

arthulia on March 11, 2014 | [–]

Time? Do you write all your applications in assembly?

taybin on March 11, 2014 | [–]

Many games run on multiple consoles.

chucknelson on March 11, 2014 | [–]

Still a pretty small number (2-8 max?) compared to all of the PC configurations you have to worry about in DX and OpenGL land.

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