Zizzla_Rachet said:
Why?....I don't see how that make sense....Nintendo has Wii,Ds(i) Sony Ps3 PSp line...MS Xbox,Windows (Zune forthcoming)...I don't see how you can be right... I guess your right on the Steam bit... |
Makes perfect sense to me. I'm buying a game directly from Valve - no other publisher involved, no 'Games for Windows' element at all. I'm going to play that game on Steam, Valve's own online network service with friends, etc. (basically the real PC version of Live, and one that puts MS efforts to shame on PC currently). It so happens that my PC is using a MS OS - but that's nothing to do with the game, and if I want I could replace the OS.
Therefore L4D2 is available to me completely outside the MS gaming network. As I said in my first post I know that the view of L4D2 as a 360 exclusive is because the 360 is the only console the title is available on - but unlike say Super Mario Galaxy, or Uncharted, L4D2 is not a single platform exclusive - i.e. 360 only. I view this as a competing platform as I, and many other PC gamers I know, haven't bought 360s as so many of the titles are on PC and we prefer to play them there. Given that the PC platform and version is effectively competing with 360 in such cases, I don't see it as complimentary at all. If Mass Effect, L4D, Gears 1, Bioshock, etc. were exclusive to 360 only then I'd probably be much more inclined to get one.
I'd note MS clearly see it the same way - hence the lack of Gears 2, Halo 3, etc. on PC.
Try to be reasonable... its easier than you think...
