Microsoft: Windows 7 to Bring Glad Tidings for Gamers
Posted 02/23/09 at 06:55:16 PM by Pulkit Chandna
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Will Windows 7 bring glad tidings for gamers? Chris Lewis, VP of Interactive Entertainment Business for Microsoft EMEA, certainly believes the new OS will keep gamers happy.
"It's all good news - it's even more robust, it's quicker relatively, and the early testing cycles are proving very promising overall,” an excited Lewis told Gameindustry.biz in an interview. He said the company will divulge more details later this year.
Lewis didn’t forget to reassure gamers that Microsoft remains committed to PC gaming. “Ultimately we're a Windows and PC company at heart,” Lewis accentuated Microsoft’s commitment to its roots.
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commited to pc gaming? *cough* BULLSHIT *cough*
Submitted by thegamepro on Tue, 02/24/2009 - 5:52pm
Then why doesn't microsoft give us what we want? A desktop client for GFWL. Some 1st party games that are released on xbox and pc simultaniously. Halo 3 for pc. Gears for 2 pc. Crackdown for pc. Maybe promoting the pc with ads?
didn't they say the same
Submitted by mls067 on Mon, 02/23/2009 - 9:12pm
didn't they say the same thing about Vista when the "leaks" began surfacing about that O.S. It works well now after a ton of patching, but not when it first came out. For the record though, 7 plays games great so far for me.
Submitted by tehR0XX0Rz on Mon, 02/23/2009 - 7:22pm
If they're so committed to PC gaming, then why did they introducing a competing platform that has escalated the console wars to the point that PC gaming is all but dead. Sure, the PC gets console leftovers, but it's not what it was before the XBox came along.
You said it all...
Submitted by roninnder on Tue, 02/24/2009 - 3:30am
You said it all right there: PC gaming is all but dead, yet they still support it. That shows a pretty strong committment to me. Espeically when you consider how much higher profits are on xboxes and how much harder it is to pirate the games.
You can say they don't support it very well all you want, but how many games are you playing on OSX or Linux?
Also, if I'm not mistaken, the Xbox 360 was released BEFORE either the PS3 or the Wii. That would seem to me to indicate that they set the bar, Sony and Nintendo were the "escalators."
Submitted by N25PHILLY on Tue, 02/24/2009 - 5:57am
Anyone that says that pc gaming is dead is either a troll or an idiot. There are so mmany genres that don't work on consoles no matter how much they shoe horn them in. I have yet to play a console shooter that was as good as a tenth rate pc shooter. Now someone in the console business has done enough crack to think it's a good idea try and shove RTS games on consoles. Oh, and how many mmo's are on consoles?
Submitted by samduhman on Tue, 02/24/2009 - 10:46am
What he said.
PC gaming is no where near death. I'm looking at 7 to 8 PC games I want to buy releasing just in March alone.....as long as the average 70%+ in overall reviews.
I have a 360/PS3 and Wii, they don't hold a candle compared to the PC when playing traditionally PC genres.
Microsoft screwed PC gamers over when they introduced the XBOX, JERKS! If they are still supporting PC gamers please tell me how many games they have in development for it.
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