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Report: Microsoft to Focus on Gaming with Windows 8
by Brian Leahy, Dec 23, 2010 3:00pm PSTAccording 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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Hell, they said that with WIndows 7 and that was when they stopped even bothering to port their first party 360 titles to PC. Not even after years of release. Not even after sequels to said games were made on 360. Not even when they're made by famous PC-centric developers (Epic, Remedy).
How a company that stripped PC gaming to the bone to build its own gaming efforts can continually declare it's focusing on PC gaming is beyond me. They must have GIANT balls of steel. It's a wonder people don't just kick them in the nads everytime they walk down the street for the gall.
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