Microsoft wants to ‘step up’ its PC games
One of the things Microsoft has been criticized for in the PC gaming arena is its lack of support. The company seems to deliver conflicting messages about gaming on the PC.
When Microsoft announced that Fable II would not be coming to the PC, many fans of the franchise cried foul. The company has been slowly cutting ties with the PC platform, as other titles such as Halo 3 and even Halo Wars were developed for the Xbox 360 only.
Fans of the Age of Empire series were disappointed that the last Ensemble RTS game (Halo Wars) did not make it to the PC before the studio’s closure.
However, it seems like Microsoft wants to turn all of that around by shifting more resources behind the PC. According to CVG, Dave Luehmann, GM at Microsoft Games Studios, recently revealed that the company has been allocating “real investment” for the PC.
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.
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.
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.
As it is, even Microsoft’s biggest gaming competitor Sony has a much larger presence on the PC. Sony has an entire division (Sony Online Entertainment) dedicated to that platform.
However, it is curious to see such a comment from Microsoft after Kudo Tsunoda, head of Kinect, stated that PC gaming was dead.
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September 25th, 2010
“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”
So this sounds like Fable 3 will make it to PC after all.
September 25th, 2010
We knew about Fable 3. Maybe Gears 2 and 3 also
September 25th, 2010
“Sony has a much larger presence on the PC.”
Dude. They got like… Free Realms… and… The Matrix Online. And Everquest man… let’s rock it like it’s 2004. Sony rulez PC. Marcus says “step ya game up Mshizzle!”
September 25th, 2010
@Carl
if Planetside is still active that have that too. I played that for a little while. Was kinda fun, but it sucked if you had a crappy PC
September 25th, 2010
Planetside is still very active. It came out in 2003.
September 25th, 2010
and Planetside homey! Peeps are gonna be like Age O’ WHAT? Mo like Age O’ Whack! Marcus says Sony OE is named after my favorite malt liquor and it makes Microsoft look like a Fable! Oh yeah!
September 25th, 2010
Whatever CarlB has been smoking lately he should share with some of the other people here on the Blorge
September 25th, 2010
Marcus only smokes Sony’s pipe beeyatch. It’s large and hard. Don’t u know Marcus don’t roll wit anyting called Micro-Soft?
September 25th, 2010
“SUCK IT Reindeer Games! You white? Then you Ben Affleck.”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZQsq-YLHhU&feature=related
September 25th, 2010
Sony does have a larger presence on PC
September 25th, 2010
Ah yeah! You know it! Eat dat Microsoft! You ain’t nuttin’! Games for WinDOZE! Gonna kick yo’ butt all the way up to Norrath! You don’t know nuttin’ ’bout no Rage of the Wookies!
September 25th, 2010
you makes no sense.
September 26th, 2010
malfeasance.