Pre-3GS support question (keep it or leave it?)

Hi Andos, I haven't heard from any big publisher about mandatory support for pre-3GS. They should be pretty much obsolete. Within 2 new iphone versions they may abandon specific support to 3GS. You may leave it and state/let available the last iOS runtime compatible with pre-3GS devices.

I was developing for 3G for compatibility and performance but I very quickly dropped it as I gathered anything pre-3G is worthless and tbh I only support iPod 4th Gen+ for all my developments this point forward.

I don't target anything that can't run OS5.0. Just makes things a lot easier.

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I don't target anything that can't run OS5.0. Just makes things a lot easier.

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If it will improve performance a little bit for all current games that run on newer devices so I think that is a good idea....

Might as well get rid of it. I had a regular 3G when I first got the exporter back when it was released, and it was just too slow to handle anything the exporter outputted anyway.

Ogl 2.0es is great idea! Andos could you make some shaders then? What features would be also available?

Like Tony, I target 5.0 as the minimum OS requirement. Also I must say that I wouldn't be against a little performance boost.

I'm a fan of backward compatibility, but the lowest OS we can target is already 4.3 - and even that is of limited use due to malfunctions with some objects. Even if you keep ES1.0, how could someone still support the old devices?

That's it ladies and gentleman.. case closed OpenGL ES 2.0 it is

3GS is going to be obsolete within this or next year. Just eep the support for 4 and later is enough.

I think anything less than the 3GS should be dropped. Don't abandon 3GS support just yet though. I still see plenty of those around campus.

Xcode doesn't even support pre-3GS devices, and I haven't had anybody ask for a performance improvement on a 2nd gen device since this time last year; most people are at least using an iPhone 4, you still see 3GS' around but the users of them don't tend to play games, and of they do they expect them to run a little poorly, so I don't even bother to test on a 3GS anymore. So I say yes, throw out support for anything pre-3GS. We can't build for pre-3GS on XCode anymore anyways!

I would say remove it, I found last year that my game was really suffering trying to keep it running on a 2g touch which is only like 100mhz better then an iphone 3G in power, those days are long gone now. even the tools on mac limit the use of older devices now.

If we can't build by xcode anymore...so makes no sense to keep old support....drop it