your a retard if you actually think microsoft is actually supporting PC now LOL

games for windows is a joke

So according to this Fable 3 isn't exclusive.

What "exclusives" does that leave on the 360? Not trolling, just curious...

Halo: Reach
Gears of War 3

I really don't know any other big ones... I'd say Forza, but that Kinect game was pretty brutal.

Microsoft is going to have a hard time expanding their market, when all they have that is noteworthy are 2 games in which their fanbase are already owners of the console.

You can argue that Kinect will expand the market of 360 users, but when the hardcore games are this lacking, and none are on Kinect... that sort of leaves the current target audience of the 360 out in the cold.

Not to mention that Bungie is gone from Halo after Reach, and we all know where Cliffy's current priority is, and it isn't GeOW3.

'leave the PC realm to real developers.'

Just because they use games for windows they aren't real developers?..

Who developed Windows? Who developed DirectX?

Me too D:

SOAD is competing with him lmfao

I agree, M.S is in a position where they could effectively kill the console market altogether. They could bundle an improved DD service withing windows itself, that would be several hundred million users from day 1...even if they only try it out at first it could build a massive revenue stream.

I think it's funny though that it would probably never take off when they have steam to compete with. Maybe they should have thought twice about abandoning PC...

I'm sure aoe and flight sim were to fly under the radar until later. Ms caught a whiff of pc gamers wallets as they gobbled up sc2. It's the only reason we are getting this news now.

@SOAD

I know MS is losing money this gen. So was Sony. That is why Nintendo has really won this generation from a company perspective. But it'd be completely foolish of MS to stop now. They found a way to hang around the top dogs of the industry and to throw it away because they are losing money is a short-sighted goal.

But of course, that also probably best describes MS's 360.

MS needs to stick with the Xbox and do better next time or ASAP. They offer great competition for Sony too, and if MS is going to stick around then they could at least rub off each other.

Alphamale, the only reasons some people want MS to continue in the industry is to always keep Sony on their heels.

Microsoft has no prospects in the gaming industry anymore.

Once Epic Games finishes up the Gears trilogy, they're bound to start producing AAA (referring to budget) multiplatform titles.

Bungie has gone multiplatform as well. I don't know to what extent Microsoft still owns Bungie (stock-wise), but Bungie can utilize all the same types of features from Reach in their multiplatform games. Forge-like map editors, theater modes, firefight modes, content sharing and so on can all be used in their multiplatform releases. The only thing Bungie can't do is tread upon the Halo Universe. This means that the Halo as a franchise will effectively be rendered obsolete if Bungie makes another game with similar features and corrects the original flaws of Halo.

What does Microsoft have to appeal to gamers in general? They do the bare minimum of work. They get one awesome franchise to be on their console exclusively and then expect people to get so torn up over not having it that they eventually drop hundreds of dollars on their console to play one game for 3 years. Granted, the games are awesome, but it's clear that Microsoft doesn't want to try anymore.

@Dchalfont

I wouldn't want MS to create their own DD service. They can just utilize STEAM because from what I've seen STEAM is the least annoying DD service, and a lot of gamers use it, and if MS tried to compete with their own DD service, most STEAM gamers wouldn't get the MS service because nobody wants to have multiple DD services on their computer. It's a burden.

"I wouldn't want MS to create their own DD service"

Neither would I. I was just saying they could. I think the less M.S has to do with PC gaming the better. But if they really rolled with it they could have a massive influence on gaming as a whole with regards to PC driven gaming etc...for better or for worse.

Steam has the largest gaming library, but Impluse let's you download games and play them without the client as well as a bunch of other even more customer friendly option than steam.