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Redmond's stance on PC games is supposedly about to change for the better. Microsoft's Peter Orullian, group product manager for Windows PC and Mobile, recently told Kotaku that he wants to "bring some of the rigor thought and success we've had on console to bare in the PC space. PC games is a place where we are doubling down."
So what could Orullian be referring to? Last week, Microsoft announced it was readying a browser-based Windows store for PC games called Games for Windows Marketplace. Gamers will be able to purchases games (100 titles available at launch) with Microsoft Points or their credit card, straight from the browser. The store is slated to launch on November 15 (better late than never?) but Orullian's quote seems to imply this is only the beginning of a broader PC gaming push from the company. We sure hope it is: PC gaming deserves a boost.
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thats great, but i dont like buying games online, i just go to the store and get the DVD
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Microsoft's always late on new things... get updated!! Their gaming console is retarded, their motion controller is retarded, their MSpoints is retarded, even Windows is retarded BUT Congrats for 7 I guess
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hello ..
i buy on steam, impulse, d2d & soon on some others, well it's all welcome new gaming site.
cheers
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I'll believe it when I see it. Over/under on them doing this all over again in 2 years?
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Thank goodness. Don't get me wrong, I love my 360, but my PC is so much more powerful now that the 360 is getting kinda old hardware wise. You can't do a good flight sim on a console anyway. My steam collection keeps getting bigger too. This is good news from M$
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Microsoft needs to outperform Steam and start making PC Gamers feel like first class citizens instead of second rate nobodies if they want to get anywhere. Making amends for their 360 exclusives that were supposed to be on the PC would be a good start.
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Yeah, sorry, Steam has way too much of a headstart on you there, MS. I highly doubt MS will be able to offer the awesome discounts that Steam offers on games that people ACTUALLY WANT, so... why would anyone move to MS's online distribution platform?
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I don't want Microsoft "points", or their "game platform". I have my own games that won't play on the Vista 64 - most of them in fact. Microsoft's greed for money has furiously angered people. Jerk those yachets from under the fat executive pants and force them to produce the product they claim to have produced.
Microsoft blames peoples poor inadequate computers, their faulty game designers, the memory, the graphics, everything but where the problem is - THEMSELVES!
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