This is why Microsoft rules

[Jordy]

Finally Microsoft have combined their Windows OS, Xbox 360 and Windows Phone for something useful. Cloud gaming!

Developers will be able to code games for just Windows OS, and be able to port it to Windows Mobile and Xbox 360 no trouble, requiring hardly effort for them.

It also benefits the consumer too, you could play the game on your Xbox 360, save your progress online, pick it up on your phone, then turn up at a mates house and continue on his PC. That is awesome.

It's the same game, the same code, compiled to run on three different Microsoft devices. It's integration or hardware feature creep -- GPS, a stopwatch, calculator and mobile phone -- but for software.

Apple, with its locked-down, isolated sandbox is in trouble. Do game developers have any reason to continue working on games for the iPhone or iPad now that Microsoft is offering so much more?
Not only is this a huge boon for developers -- all they have to do is write different code for the device's inputs -- it's also massive for gamers. You can be playing a platform game on your Xbox, save it, and continue playing on your mobile phone on the way to work. Now, given Microsoft's renewed focus on cloud computing, imagine saving your game to the cloud -- head over to your friend's house and continue playing on their Xbox. Or their PC, if they don't have an Xbox.

http://www.downloadsquad.com/2010/03...-games-market/

[Suspective]

Good on Microsoft. Its a great idea

[HotelUser]

Now all I need is an xbox and I'm set!

[Tomm]

To be fair, there are a limited number of games that could run on all 3 devices anyway. You're hardly going to be running CoD6 on your phone for example Plus games for mobile phones are not really as fun on console/PC when there are games designed for those platforms you can play instead.

[GommeInc]

Not sure about the phone part, but the integration of Xbox 360 and PC gaming sounds very promising

[LMS16]

tbh, this is gonna be an epic fail.

The people who have xbox obvs cant afford a real console (ps3) therefore they wouldnt be able to afford a high spec pc to run the games on

Simples.

+REP

Lew.

[Agnostic Bear]

tbh, this is gonna be an epic fail.

The people who have xbox obvs cant afford a real console (ps3) therefore they wouldnt be able to afford a high spec pc to run the games on

Simples.

+REP

Lew.

But how can the ps triple be a real console when it has no games?

[HotelUser]

But how can the ps triple be a real console when it has no games?

I could be completely wrong about this statistic, but I had thought more people played online on the PS3 than the Xbox.

[Agnostic Bear]

I could be completely wrong about this statistic, but I had thought more people played online on the PS3 than the Xbox.

Watching videos. Always. No games.

[HotelUser]

Watching videos. Always. No games.

It has Final Fantasy and COD. That seems to be enough for most