They don't give a certificate until you pass certification and pay a big, fat fee. Don't delude yourself, how do you think console makers make money? This is how.

When checking AppDB, you need to pay attention to the Wine version tested. A large portion of that database has way out of date entries with information that is no longer applicable in the current version of Wine. Additionally, since Wine's DirectX implementation was very slow to develop, a lot of users began installing DX by default, without ever checking if it was really required. In most cases, DirectX itself is not needed at all, but some of the support DLLs, like the d3dx9_##.dll files might be. With the majority of GOG's games, especially the older ones, even that isn't necessary.

If any console has a shot at catering to GOG, it's Ouya. Seems like a rather open platform to me. GOG just needs to get some Android games going. Or the old games that run on stuff like Dosbox and ScummVM. Obviously none of the newer games would work.

That is true also.The main problems I had when trying to get games to run in WINE usually involved the Visual C++ Runtime Libraries. I haven’t tried the latest version of WINE though, so I don’t know how improved the compatible is.

However, could WINE be used to port Windows based games to consoles like the Plastation 3 and X-Box 360?

I used to think it'd be great if somehow, someone could fit every game ever made on one disc and sell that for 60 bucks. imgaine how much you'd make!

Anything that requires additional runtimes, like Visual C or .NET, is going to be a problem with Wine for a while, if not forever. The Wine project is very unlikely to create analogs for stuff that isn't actually part of the core of the OS, beyond DirectX (far too many things use DX, no where near as many use Visual C and the like), especially when you can install the real thing in Wine just like you would have to do on Windows for those applications that require them. Then again, somebody else might take it upon themselves to create open source alternatives, Like the Mono Project did for .NET.

The PS3, maybe, the Xbox, no. The PS3's OS is based on BSD, which Wine will work on, but it is unclear just how much of BSD is really "under the hood" and how much of it is custom code specific to the PS3. The Xbox is essentially running a really stripped down kind of Windows, so Wine might not even be necessary (not that it can be used in any kind of Windows environment anyway), though I doubt running Windows games on the Xbox would really be that simple.

What's the point? They really great on PC.

my brother used to own a keyboard, he used it a little but not much. all in all, i think people who invest in keyboards end up not using them at all. besides, with headsets, theres just no point at all. so your right, the keyboard is a bad idea and woudln't port well.

There are basically 16 buttons (4 on d-pad + 4 on right side + 4 triggers + start + select + pressing each analog stick) + 2 analog sticks on console controllers. Many old games doesn't need that much. When I said I want old pc games on the console, I meant mostly shooters and other arcade games that would play nice on the console. Strategy fans will stay with pc any way.
I know how it works, but if many independent studios can affort to pay the fee, then so can GOG.

If the console companies felt there was enough money to be made by making old DOS games playable on their consoles, I'm pretty sure they'd do that. Apparently they feel the opposite.

Maybe they feel they'd rather see people playing newer, more expensive, titles on the consoles that bring the companies more money, than to swamp them with oldies costing only a few bucks, causing a similar game price erosion that has already happened on PC.

They may also feel most old DOS games have too steep learning curves for many console players. No tutorial missions, too many keys, genres or gameplay styles that many console gamers are not that familiar with, etc.

And yes, quite a lot of DOS games rely on keyboard and mouse.

Sometimes it's not the actual DOS game itself that makes use of of a lot of buttons, but things like typing in your high score or typing in a name for a saved game make use of every letter and number button on a keyboard. It could also be typing in a cheat code.

There are virtual keyboards on PS3 and Xbox360.

I'd rather they didn't go console as that's like hopping in bed with the devil. All that's great about GoG would likely go away once they start dealing with Microsoft and Sony.

As cool as this sounds, it will not happen

i found this thing earlier, i think it was called EA REPLAY, it was for the sony psp, and it had ultima 7, syndicate, and wing commander. also, road rash and yada yada, but what was most surprising was ultima 7 considering it would be hard to do without a mouse. turns out, its the console version which was dumbed down to one charecter only and was more like diablo then ultima. wing commander is the same however, just with faulty controls i've heard.

bottom line, it was a big failure.