Is PC gaming important to Microsoft?

[Zackasaurus-rex]

Mystro-Sama said:

Zackasaurus-rex said:

No, it's not. Gaming doesn't do much to drive the sales of their operating system and related software (such as Office).

Whereas, Xbox is a different market where Microsoft were previously unrepresented.

Then why the fuck do their games keep getting PC ports. That's been bothering me for a while...

Well, those aren't their games. They published them, but they don't own them. They probably just didn't explicitly forbid later PC ports in the contracts. As a result, Crytek and Capcom saw it as a way to make some extra money off of their games.