Report: Microsoft to Focus on Gaming with Windows 8

by Brian Leahy, Dec 23, 2010 3:00pm PST

Related Topics – Microsoft, PC, Games for Windows

According to a report by TechRadar, Microsoft could be eying gaming as a big focus for the forthcoming Windows 8. TechRadar claims that "the software giant [is] ready to put its weight behind the platform once more."

Microsoft has also hired Rahul Sood, who came over from Hewlett-Packard and Voodoo PC and is also the guy that blogged that Microsoft scrapped plans for PC and Xbox 360 cross-platform multiplayer because "the console players got destroyed every time" sparking Internet arguments about controllers versus mouse & keyboard.

Last month, Microsoft launched a redesigned Games for Windows Marketplace, which sells digital games and downloadable content. Microsoft's biggest competition will obviously be Valve's Steam platform, which is currently the undisputed king of PC gaming.

Microsoft has quite a large mountain to climb, especially after Games for Windows LIVE.

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I worry that they will just integrate GFWL into the OS and market it to publishers as a way to kill mods while hawking their DLC to newly closed platform.

Dec 23, 2010 3:20pm PST

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    The sad thing is that they are the only ones that have that line. Apple doesn't and it surely is using OSX as a vehicle for the coming Mac app store. That microsoft can't move into this lurative business is going to kill them, if apple can do it why can't microsoft?
    
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    The sad thing is that they are the only ones that have that line. Apple doesn't and it surely is using OS... : supaslasha
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  i hope they get slammed with an antitrust before that version of windows ever sees the light of day : flasher 907
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