How Standardization Could Improve PC Games

Post by **racketboy** » Mon Sep 18, 2006 10:32 pm

MS Wants to make PC games more console-like in terms of compatibility:
http://www.joystiq.com/2006/09/18/how-s ... -pc-games/

Sounds interesting

Post by **Mozgus** » Mon Sep 18, 2006 11:19 pm

What's the catch? What are THEY going to get out of this? Something tells me Microsoft will be charging devs and publishers for use of this "standard".

Also, I have never once seen a game box that doesnt list the spec requirements. They don't always tell the truth, but they are always there.

Post by **racketboy** » Tue Sep 19, 2006 7:11 am

Mozgus wrote:What's the catch? What are THEY going to get out of this? Something tells me Microsoft will be charging devs and publishers for use of this "standard".

Most likely

Post by **Ivo** » Tue Sep 19, 2006 8:40 am

Mozgus wrote:What's the catch? What are THEY going to get out of this? Something tells me Microsoft will be charging devs and publishers for use of this "standard".

Also, I have never once seen a game box that doesnt list the spec requirements. They don't always tell the truth, but they are always there.

THEY are probably getting more Vista sales (or other MS OS sales) out of that sort of stuff. And they probably are counting on having more sales for their own titles that follow this. Also, helping 3rd party publishers have more sales and hence make games for PC seems a good strategy (many Xbox 360 titles are ports of PC titles as well, and vice-versa).

Ivo.

Post by **Liam** » Tue Sep 19, 2006 8:57 am

Maybe they're afraid that more games will be released for OSX on Intel.