| Smash_Brother said: Exactly. I suspect that the whole "Games for Windows" push and the Xbox Live for Windows project are both aiming to take the current gaming market they've built on the 360 and move it over to to the PC if this generation ends and the 360 hasn't returned a profit. Why else would they be porting Live (a service and a system which are supposed to be a selling point of the Xbox line) over to the same PC that everyone already owns? MS's business model is immensely profitable...if you subtract the hardware costs. The hardware is what's put them in the 5 billion dollar hole and I'm sure the extending of warranties due to the RROD ain't making it any easier. Besides, most FF games wind up on the PC anyway. MS could just as easily charge their licensing fees there for any game which intends to make use of Live, sell controllers and other peripherals designed to make use of "Games for Windows" and they'd finally be free of the burden of making hardware. |
For MS this is about protecting the Windows platform. They want to keep Sony from establishing a successful competitor to windows based around the TV. If this is like their other conflicts they will try as hard as possible to make Windows an advantage, my guess is that someone there sees some advantage no matter how vague in trying to tie the two, XBox and PC, together.
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