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S.T.A.G.E. on 20 January 2015
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McDonaldsGuy said:
S.T.A.G.E. said:

Microsoft forever changed gaming by forcing console gamers to do what PC gamers would never do and thats pay for online gaming. Online was coming in some capacity in the future, but Microsoft brought in properly. Sega had been trying for years to accomplish this since the genesis.

I'll give you the Xbox Live dashboard. That is innovative.


Microsoft bought both Halo and Gears. They didnt invent either game. 

They bought the Kinect after Sony turned it down.

WRPG's were on Playstations before they were a thing. Ever heard of Deus Ex and Champions of Norrath?   Most of them couldnt be handled by consoles until the 360 era. You're right that Microsoft caused a mass exodus of WRPG's, but it was a mass exodus of PC games period. They had no real exclusives, so they had to use PC games to make it seem like they had them. Thats not innovative and they were coming anyway. See Carmack interviews from the game Rage. Consoles were finally ready for PC level games at that point and he considered the profitability to be there too. 

Microsoft caused a great drought of PC exclusives until Valve launched Steam.

Sega was super innovative and they were great but they bundled the Dreamcast with a 56K port, not an ethernet port.   A HUGE mistake. But it was Xbox Live that really pushed online gaming. It cost money but for a console it was worth it. PC gaming is great and all but I got many more memories with friends with Halo 2 and 3 than ever PC gaming.

Look at Sony's online for the PS2. Barely servicable (they can say they had online and that's it). In fact PSN was pretty much trying to copy Xbox Live. 

Champions of Norrath is okay, but nothing big like KOTOR, Morrowind, or even Jade Empire. Now this is important cause WRPGs are bigger than JRPGs now. As great as the PS2 was, it was a product of its time. The Xbox truly opened many doors.

The only thing Microsoft has done for gaming was innovate the online dashboard and brought PC games to consoles a generation early than they already were coming. PC games had been making an exodus since the N64 era, but only on consoles which could handle a port. Duke Nukem, Quake and other PC games were already on consoles during the N64 era. Sony created the eyetoy which came before the Kinect, so no they did not innovate, Sony did there. Microsoft bought the idea. This topic should be thank you Microsoft for buying everything, because we all know a large portion of the things you're praising for they didnt have the creativity to do themselves. Carmack of ID even admitted that consoles were finally on level with high level PC's at the beginning of the 360 era and made Rage to open itself up to that.

Halo was supposed to be a mac exclusive shooter, solidifying Apple in the PC gaming race. (This praise goes to Bungie)

Gears of War was coming regardless.  (This praise goes to Epic)

The Eyetoy was the first successful motion camera in the gaming world (This praise belongs to Sony, you guys just refuse to give it to them), Microsoft just made it a phenomenon using taking what Sony denied because they didnt need it, sending Rare to work on it and buy it. 

We should just say thank you Microsoft for buying things. Once again...no offense but they don't have it in them to make a major AAA IP themselves or anything outside of online and they still havent proven it in three generations. They still have proven it....not once like their competition have time and time again. 

We should thank Microsoft for having a good eye, but if it wasn't for Microsoft the PC realm wouldn't have had a drought of exclusives. Thank you Microsoft for good online gaming with a dashboard and all. When Halo hit consoles I was primarily a PC gamer and made the switch back to consoles because I knew after Kotor it was innevitable and I wasnt wrong. Valve is pretty much the only reason for me to go back to PC after Microsoft opened pandoras box then again maybe not since all the multiplats exist on consoles and they have the exclusives PC cannot touch the boot.

Interestingly enough, Destiny probably would've been on PC/Mac if Apple was publishing it. Then again...it wouldn't be normal if Bill gates wasnt a thorn in the side of Steve Jobs.