Microsoft Live for PCs
p2pnet.net news:- Bill and the Boyz say they’re going to utilize Vista to bring in more income from their Xbox Live online video game service.
“The PC is the largest gaming platform in the world,” The Seattle Times has Aaron Greenberg, Microsoft’s group product manager for Xbox Live and a new service, Games for Windows Live, saying.
“So while we feel great about the 10 million Xbox 360s that we’ve sold, we realize that the market opportunity on the PC is significantly larger than the console has ever been historically.”
Microsoft plans to have Halo 2 available on May 8 when the new service goes up, and Shadowrun and the Uno card game will added later in the year.
The company, “sees this as a potential spur to Windows Vista sales,” the story goes on. “Multimedia improvements in the operating system, such as the Direct X 10 graphics engine, will entice video-game enthusiasts to Vista, Greenberg said.”
A subscription to the highest level of the Games for Windows Live service will cost $50 a year, says The Seattle Times, adding:
“Gamers who already subscribe via their Xbox do not have to pay again to use the service on a PC. A second-tier service that still allows multiplayer gaming is free, but it will not allow PC gamers to play with others using the Xbox 360 console.”
Also See:
The Seattle Times – Microsoft Live for PCs due in May, March 15, 2007
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March 15th, 2007 at 8:40 pm
While i’ll freely admit i only ever put win95 on my pc to play diablo, there is no way that a sequel to a crappy fps is going to convince me to give vista a try.
And once the console people start laughing that they’ve already got halo 3 and the pc people are still waiting on halo 2, i really don’t think it’s gonna help matters.