Report: Microsoft to Focus on Gaming with Windows 8
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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Nice pun...they did fuck up with the hardware acceleration for sound with Vista and Windows 7.
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Report: Microsoft to Focus on Gaming with Microsoft Bob 2.0
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Honestly, I'd prefer if they didn't "focus on gaming". It seems like every time they do, they hurt gaming in general. My favorite "focus on gaming" moment was Vista/DX10/Alan Wake and FSX as PC DX10 powerhouses. FSX took quite a while to get any DX10 support, which didn't add much anyway, and then Aces got laid off. Alan Wake went from PC showcase to X360 exclusive. If that is focusing on PC gaming, I wish they wouldn't.
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They been repeating this pity agenda several times now,so why don't they first do something to prove they truly support PC gaming.I guess Apple's recent growth in gaming and Valve dominance in digital distribution really hurting MS.
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People kicked and screamed when XP came out and now people kicked and screamed for Vista in terms of Gaming.
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Absolutely the truth. Every version of Windows is supposedly focusing on the gamer. "This is it, guys! THIS IS THE WINDOWS WHERE WE'RE ALL ABOUT THE GAMER!"
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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windows 8 is the nextbox os
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I agree. If Microsoft wants it's next "console" to be competitive, it's going to have to recognize that there is a convergence occurring among all the various network-enabled boxes in the living room.
There should be one box that combines all of the following:
Cable box
DVR
Wireless internet access
Wired ethernet port
Web browsing
Blu-ray
Games
Connectivity and source switching for other sources and devices, including:
HDMI in
USB 3.0
Bluetooth
With all of that functionality, said box might as well be thought of as a home-theater PC.
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