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Were PC Gamers Too Good For Microsoft's Cross-Platform Gaming Project? |
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| Posted on 22-07-2010 12:21 |
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Rahul Sood, Voodoo PC founder and current CTO of gaming at HP, spins an interesting yarn about an aborted Microsoft project that would've let PC and Xbox gamers face-off. The only problem? During testing, the PC gamers cleaned Xboxers' clocks.
In the middle of a rumination on the lukewarm state of PC gaming, Sood divulges some details of a project Microsoft was working on "many many months ago" to let PC and Xbox users face off in games like Gears of War and Unreal Tournament, an effort that would've effectively bridged the gap between Xbox Live and Windows Live.
Sadly for the project, the fight wasn't exactly a fair one:
I've heard from reliable sources that during the development they brought together the best console gamers to play mediocre PC gamers at the same game... and guess what happened? They pitted console gamers with their "console" controller, against PC gamers with their keyboard and mouse.
The console players got destroyed every time. So much so that it would be embarrassing to the XBOX team in general had Microsoft launched this initiative.
That's not entirely surprising to anyone who's fragged on both platforms—Matt Buchanan says "i'd slaughter anybody using a controller if i had a keyboard and mouse"—but it's interesting nevertheless to hear just how thoroughly the Xbox gamers supposedly got their asses whooped. [Rahul Sood via CrunchGear]
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RE: Were PC Gamers Too Good For Microsoft's Cross-Platform Gaming Project? |
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| Posted on 22-07-2010 18:55 |
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I'm not surprised at all, the mouse will always be superior to any joystick, plus the combination with the keyboard makes it totally win in every ways.
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| Posted on 22-07-2010 19:59 |
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Goyoh wrote:
I'm not surprised at all, the mouse will always be superior to any joystick, plus the combination with the keyboard makes it totally win in every ways.
Idd. joysticks < Mouse
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| Posted on 23-07-2010 16:48 |
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FUCK YOU CONSOLE GAMERS. PC-SIDE 4 LIFE. |
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| Posted on 25-07-2010 13:49 |
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Not when Rockstar only release games on X-Box and PS...Damn you Rockstar now I have to get a 360 to play the game I want!! |
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