| slowmo said: So if we assume you mean ignoring all the technological advances they've made with directx then maybe they'e lighter these days in terms of software publishing but I hardly see how it is THEIR responsibility for propping up the PC market. I don't see you guys complaining how Sony and Nintendo are killing the PC segment by refusing to go multiplatform onto PC. I find it rather ludicrous reasoning you're using to just bash Microsoft personally. There is a HUGE list of publishers and developers not supporting the PC in any way at all far more deserving of the scorn.
1. I personally would have wrote closed poorly performing/not profitable developers which mkes perfrct business sense. I was gutted Ensemble closed, I loved Halo Wars but the development schedule on that game alone showed the problems possibly brewing underneath the surface. 2. Charging for GFW failed miserably and there is no charge anymore. The only thing this damaged was their profits not gaming on the PC. It's grasping at straws suggesting otherwise. 3. They have a right to sell their own software and make money, once again I find it rather hypocritical you aren't having a go at companies doing far more damage. |
Sony and Nintendo never had any PC-centric developers to begin with (save SOE, who still actively support the PC).
In the end, Microsoft was at one time the most active supporter of Windows as a gaming platform, yet at some point they decided to end this support, killing very popular franchises and hurting PC gaming by damaging its portfolio of upcoming games.
If Sony came out today and said they were no longer going to make PSP or PS3 games, wouldn't the owners of said consoles have a right to be pissed?
