Microsoft has said that Windows Phone platform is their official mobile gaming platform. Are they dreaming, or in need of a wake up call? Full opinion and analysis by Nathan Evans.
The Xbox brand is expanding, as an Xbox mobile game store is opening this coming July where Microsoft will brings its "first-party portfolio."
“Bond adds that they will start on the web”
This will go nowhere.
Nice knowing you Xbox. This is what happens when the house never gets cleaned.
The only this MS is expanding is the amount of feculence it sprays on everyone who just want to enjoy gaming and make games.
The best thing MS can do for the gaming industry is leave and never return.
It turns out that many moons ago, Microsoft once had its eye on the Sony published LittleBigPlanet series.
Project Spark idea was decent but they quickly gave up ..
LBP was wonderful
Microsoft in a nutshell. Always tried to poach Sony employees, games, 3rd party games and devices like the depth camera that was turned into Kinect but was running on PS2 before Xbox 360. Wouldn't be surprised they wanted LBP. Just like they worked behind the scenes pushing the MLB to bring Sony's baseball game to Xbox instead of making their own.
https://www.playstationlife...
They didn't spend years trying to develop their own baseball game. They wanted Sony's game.
They're scum.
Microsoft didn't force MLB on Xbox. MLB gave Sony 2 options either go multiplat or risk losing the license.
Totally ridiculous comment.
The only exclusivity Sony had was to their own creation of The Show. Microsoft could have paid the MLB for the license just like Sony did and made their own baseball game.
Microsoft instead, groomed MLB for years in trying to poach Sony's game and bring it to Xbox. They're worth 3 TRILLION dollars. You think that's not enough money to make their own baseball game? Don't be delusional.
Microsoft spun it like they always do and told the media that they had to trust Sony with their hardware. After they put Sony in that position of not having a choice. Either go multiplatform or stop making one of their successful games. That's a no win scenario.
And what did Microsoft do? They didn't try to sell the game to the Xbox community. They put it on game pass to hurt Sony. Pushing the idea of why buy games that are $70 when you can play them in their cheap service for $10. It was a dirty tactic.
You fell for the Kool aid drink Microsoft served you instead of spitting it out. Hope it tasted good because you were fooled by Phil and the gang.
Being downvoted for speaking facts is crazy. They want to spin whatever fits their narrative of evil corporation.
"Microsoft instead, groomed MLB for years in trying to poach Sony's game and bring it to Xbox."
Take a nap, conspiracies are rotting your brain.
"However, Healey said Media Molecule wouldn't have felt right doing that, adding it would have been "morally corrupt"."
Major kudos to Media Molecule for being an upright studio with principles.
Great, more stories like this please. Show the last of the zombies holding the line what we've been saying for years: Microsoft is anti competition, anti industry and has no interest in making games at all.
But hey, at least there's an Xbox Games Showcase to look forward to, right?
Well considering SONY just killed the series, LBP would've been dead by now either way. Though MM probably wouldn't exist by now either, so I'm glad they stayed with SONY, hopefully they don't get shut down any time soon or ever honestly.
They shut down the servers, that's millions of user created levels gone. That and dead are pretty much the same, it's also been years since 3 and they cancelled HUB soooo.
They shutdown the servers because no one was playing, no one in the community cared about the user created levels so why keep them up? Wtf you guys would never succeed in running a business.
Yea dood no one was playing so they shut off the servers. Cause people with enough common sense can't just Google why they were actually shut of, right?
The full Skewedcast crew back for this episode and Gareth, Justin, Michael, and JoeyZ at Skewed and Reviewed break down the latest entertainment news qith a focus at 40:00 on the Microsoft Studio Closures and how it impacts the game community and what can be done to help offset this negative trend.
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I have to say I love the Win phone. Having a great time keeping up with my xbox live, playing some great games and the phone works brilliantly. The article states that the phone only has 5000 apps, however Android and iphone did not start out with hundreds of thousands of apps, it has to start somewhere. Actually the device just hit over 6000 apps and has been growing at almost 1000 apps/week. I believe that is pretty good. All I can say is it, for me definately works better than the iphone I had, and my wife's android. Also everyone that I have shown the phone to wants one.
I like the look of the WP7 UI. would prefer that over my ios UI on my iPhone 4.
An a WP7 was going to be my next phone but alas it was not meant to be. Ever since i saw the PS Phone a smartphone with a slideout Playstation pad. Its total Win even if it dont play PS games. Running emulators on it is Total win. Emulators + Buttons = Perfection.
I think some may say im a lil bia when it comes to Mobile platforms..lol well i do work on mobile platforms but it's not like im not going to support as many as i can. I think the big thing is pretty Much Smartphones of all flavors are going to do quite well in the Mobile Game space.
any where from quick to play to full RPG's can be done since Bluetooth controller's work on many Smartphones it would not really matter if your Phone was just touch enabled there will be a way to get your controller.
hell Games could be packaged with a bluetooth controller with 4 or 5 free games to work on many flavors of Smartphones. And with Some Smartdevices having HDMI out
you could have a mini game console to hook upto the tv combined with for exampe lil controller's like this
http://www.engadget.com/201...
or like this one
http://zeemote.com/
Love my LG Quantum. Love the OS and the games are great.
I want complete Live gaming though. Buy the game and you get it on the 360 and the WP7. I want the ability to play a multiplayer game against 360 users.
At that time MS will be completely heading in the right mobile gaming direction.