Microsoft’s vice president of global marketing Mike Delman confirming:
"Live has been successful on the Windows Phone. Live will be built into the PC. It will be the service where you get your entertainment. We were talking about it — you will not just see consoles and handhelds at this show next year, this show’s going to morph into other devices."
Though it's pretty obvious, Delman hinted that the PC integration of Xbox Live may happen with the release of Windows 8. On whether its games will be playable on the OS, it's not here yet, but it certainly seems like a legitimate possibility and a very near future.
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This is no way confirms you can play 360 games on it.
This is a poor assumption. There is no way Microsoft would take away money from its xbox360. If that was the case everyone would be buying PC's instead of have to buy a Xbox every two years because of the red rings. And buying PC parts doesn't profit Microsoft.
You can't play Xbox 360 games on the PC. The only way for that is with an emulator. Emulators are glitchy. Not to mention the amount of piracy.
The flood was here.
a fine idea games are where the moneys at
Thanks for the table scraps, took long enough.
Interesting if this is true or not. Kind of makes you wonder why would Microsoft even bother making another Xbox console if they could just have a basic set of hardware standards and allow the PC as well as Xbox Live to be integrated into every new PC once Windows 8 arrives. I know the article only mentions Xbox Live integration and not a complete overhaul of the Xbox business strategy, but I've always wondered if this was Microsoft's general strategy from the start. I mean, why lose money researching, producing and marketing a console when you could just set the standards on something people are going to buy in the first place in a new computer? Not only will they have complete control over the Xbox Live platform as well as Games for Windows but also every other PC game that is developed for a PC. Because what platform are most PC games built for? Mostly the Windows platform. Definitely something to think about.
very stupid this will kill pc gaming since there will be only 2 major platforms xbox and playstation
True, bad for PC gamers but good for Microsoft. Xbox fans will be willing to upgrade their PC and/or OS if they can purchase one disc to run on both PC and console. It will broaden the PC lobbies and make a large leap forward in cross-plat better then Portal 2 did with PC/PS3. The downside (major downside) is that the PC version we all are accustom to will be obsolete and be downgraded to the console quality. Kind of seen this coming when M$ released the SDK for programmers to create PC compatible software for the Kinect. However dis-heartening this is, it is a very big power move buy Microsoft.
This will counter the PS3/PS Vita continuous game play feature. He states above the success of XBL on Windows Phone 7, but is that a success within the WP7 community or Windows Phone 7 being a success which includes the XBL app?
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