Kotaku just posted this item on their website:
It had to happen eventually. Having wowed people ceaselessly since E3 with a a succession of explosive trailers, Just Cause 2 has finally put a foot wrong. And as far as the PC crowd is concerned, it’s a big foot.
It’s been revealed that the game won’t run on Windows XP. Why? Because it’s DirectX10 only. So only those running Vista or Windows 7 will be able to play the game, making it the first high profile release to completely lock out the nine year-old operating system.
Are you kidding me? No, I’m not pissed off that Just Cause 2 is going to require DirectX 10, which means it won’t support Windows XP – I don’t give a mouse’s scrote about that. I’m pissed off because apparently it’s the “the first high profile release to completely lock out [Windows XP]“. Did Kotaku just forget about the Windows version of Halo 2? Y’know, the one that only works with Windows Vista, a fact that Kotaku themselves reported not once but twice in 2006?
Well done, Kotaku. Way to do your research.
Tags: DirectX 10, Kotaku, Lost Cause 2, videogame journalism