Blizzard: Microsoft Not Doing Enough for PC Gaming - briefly
(hx) 09:43 AM CEST - Jul,01 2008
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has posted another one of their articles on PC gaming market, this time
Blizzard Entertainment COO Paul Sams criticized hardware manufacturer
Microsoft's stewardship of the PC gaming market, suggesting that the company
could do more to advance the platform.
Well, their gaming focus is very much on the [Xbox] 360. And that makes sense, cause they're a hardware manufacturer as well as a software developer. And so they've got a lot of money and investment tied up in that system. Certainly they have a lot in Windows. And Windows is a system that supports all the business applications as well as games. And I kind of look at it and say to myself, and I think similarly to Rob, is that it would be great if they put more emphasis on the Windows operating system, certainly probably the most prominent operating system in the world. Even more so than console boxes. And they own and operate that system, so having them put more energy and effort against it - and they would say that they are, but I think that there's more that can be done. It makes sense to me, what they're doing, they're putting their energy and focus against the 360. That's where their huge R&D dollars are that they have to earn out on and that's where I think their gaming bread and butter is right now.
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