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On Microsoft Games Studio's PC Recommitment

MCV has the latest mea culpa from Microsoft Games Studio on their failure to live up to past promises to support the PC as a gaming platform. "There’s been a fair bit of criticism aimed at Microsoft that we were spending a lot of our focus on console, and we need to be putting resources behind PC as well," MGS GM Dave Luehmann tells them. "Other companies should look to Microsoft for leadership, but I’m not sure they do. It is our job to lead the way on PC. And in some ways we are doing that and in other ways we are not. So we need to step up." He repeats their recent announcements of PC initiatives, and promises further progress going forward: "We are putting some real investment and big IPs behind the Windows platform. We’ve spoken of the first three, Fable III, Age of Empires Online and Microsoft Flight. However we are not going to stop there."

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11. Re: On Microsoft Games Studio's PC Recommitment Sep 24, 2010, 11:01 Verno
 
Too late. Their negligence has allowed PC gaming to shift to other OS platforms already. Gaming was one of the few activities exclusive to Windows in the OS world and now people can get by with a Mac easily enough. I see more and more Macs every damned year. Publishers are focused on multiplatform development ranging from cell phones to PCs to consoles. You can't put the genie back in the bottle.

It's not even about what the community will forgive or not, the industry has already started to move on. Windows will likely continue to be the dominant computer game platform but it will never hold the kind of sway it used to. They have permanently devalued the Windows operating system IP as a result of this.

Their own console efforts have generated massive losses with little profit in sight thanks to stiff competition from two established competitors. In the end I'm not sure what they gained from this entire goal, I suspect nothing at all. Shareholders cannot be happy with the state of affairs there. Windows 7 Mobile better knock it out of the park because the Office and Windows hegemony has a murky future if online service proliferation continues as anticipated.
 
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