On Games for Windows

Games for Windows Vista how the new brand & OS will change PC gaming on Joystiq offers an updated preview of the new Games for Windows initiative, attempting, with limited success, to sort out what GFW represents besides a marketing slogan. Based on a tour of the program by Marketing Director Kevin Unangst and PR Manager Michael Wolf, they describe interoperability with Xbox 360 games via "Live Anywhere," how PCs will get numerical ratings to gauge how well they can play games, and what qualifies a game for the GFW logo. The conclusion they draw, however, is that it is difficult to draw conclusions about all this:
It's a risk. The Games for Windows strategy is on the verge of being schizophrenic. Can the cumbersome PC gaming experience really be simplified down to a console scheme? There are just too many freedoms and variations that exist in the PC universe to accurately interpret the PC as "the console that everybody already owns." It's not that simple. So is GFW a trick? Is Microsoft trying to lure back some of the consumers that were lost when Xbox was launched (an initiative that cannibalized PC gaming sales by design)?

The answer, like the Games For Windows vision, is not so clear. But there is most certainly the opportunity for Microsoft to create something very special. A cross-platform community where you and I can jump from Xbox to PC to our cell phones seamlessly. Anywhere.
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Monitors are HDTVs Dec 19, 2006, 16:03
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Computer monitors are the HDTVs that everyone already owns, aren't they? I mean you can hook up a 360 to a monitor and use that as an HDTV.

I wish consoles were used like computers. Keyboard + mouse = FPS goodness.

I honestly don't understand why the 360 and the PS3 aren't being used as computers, too. Supposedly both systems are only like $100 away from being fully operational computer systems, if even that. I think I hear both systems have already been hacked for use as computers.

Instead of asking people to buy a $1,000 PC and a $600 console, they should just get people to buy an $800 console (or whatever) that doubles as a PC.

ONE display, ONE computer, ONE set of speakers. That should be all I need for all my TV, movie, and gaming needs.
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