Netbooks

[zarroba]

I don't know if you guys are paying attention to the netbook community.
I think Civ is a great game to play in a netbook. I play it when flying, on the train, etc.
I think netbooks are also a challenge in terms of rethinking interfaces and gameplay. I understand you guys want to push the graphics and all but I hope you don't forget this market share.
Maybe a Civ V lite?

[ATC 1982]

Maybe they can take after torchlight and make a netbook mode Cause I know that is all I have in terms of power right now.

[Freddo]

If Civ5 doesn't run well on the netbook, at least Civ3 should. That game isn't demanding at all.

I think Civ is a great game to play in a netbook. I play it when flying, on the train, etc.

I totally agree with that, it's a great game series to play while traveling, which is why I would love to see a Civ game that can run on my mobile phone. But Civ5 will obviously not do that, but the phone in question have a 600MHz CPU so it can run a game more complex than the first Civ, which is the Civ game I've played the most too.

[lukeskymac]

Have you seen the graphics engine? No netbook could handle that.

Maybe that Mx11 or whatever from Alienware, but that's not a netbook, that's a small gamer's notebook.

[lukeskymac]

I think netbooks are also a challenge in terms of rethinking interfaces and gameplay. I understand you guys want to push the graphics and all but I hope you don't forget this market share.
Maybe a Civ V lite?

It just happens that 95% of the people who buy a netbook do it because it does everything they do on a notebook (Browsing, e-mail, musics, SD video, office) at a lower price. The Civ community is already a minority and I'll celebrate if they make a Civilization V for Mac native "port". I'm starting to sound like a fanboy, but I think they might create a Civilization for iPad (it easily bests a netbook's hardware and the large screen should make interface a non-issue), especially when the thing sky-rockets at launch (believe me, it will: analysts also said the original Macintosh from 1984, the first iPod from 2001 and the first iPhone from 2007 would fail.... and look at them now).