Live Arcade for Windows: Five Games We Need
The "Live Arcade for Windows" rumour has been making the rounds for the last week or so, and has certainly spurred an interest in the concept of bringing Xbox Live Arcade titles over to Windows Vista.
However, as anyone in their right mind would probably realize, there is no way in hell Windows users are going to pay to download these games off of Microsoft's Live service when they could simply download ROMs and emulators for the same purpose (and probably already have).
The solution? Simple. Set Live Arcade for Windows apart from Xbox Live Arcade in a manner that will actually be of interest to PC owners. Bringing back hard to find, retro PC titles would be a step in the right direction. Keeping in line with bringing more original content and less "headlines" to FWA, I've put up a link to my Games.net article discussing this concept below. Let me know what you guys think!
[Live Arcade for Windows: Five Games We Need]
4 comments:
"However, as anyone in their right mind would probably realize, there is no way in hell Windows users are going to pay to download these games off of Microsoft's Live service"
I read the title of this post and I immediately dashed for the comment section...but I decided to read it.
First and foremost...I believe Microsoft will actually have to market Vista to PC gamers. According to a survey taken by Valve via Steam...only 6% of those whom participated had Vista scanned as their OS.
I know absolutely no one whom uses Vista. Ever PC tech I know says to avoid it like the plague. PC gamers are not Xbox gamers, Microsoft. Yet you seem persistent in getting the more gullible ones of our niche.
I agree, Microsoft is simply trying way too hard to market Vista as a fourth videogame system ... which it really isn't.
That said, a decent Live Arcade for Windows with retro PC classics made compatible with Vista is the least they could do for the poor souls that bought into the whole "Games for Windows" bullshit.
MS should stop pissing about and release a version of vista at $50 that is usable for the average schmo gamer. Perhaps even hit up a volume license version for families with multiple PCs.
I'm certainly not switching to vista when I have three PCs and a laptop running XP just fine. Tempting me to Vista by locking down exclusives and offering no benefits isn't going to work. They'd have done better to make Vista 64bit only and had that as the hardline to differentiate it from XP.
Anyway, I wouldn't mind some classics brought back but you know what. The PC isn't the closed battlefield they are used to on the Xbox. Gamefly/GameTap, Steam and a plethora of other web based providers have the infrastructures in place to compete with MS, in fact they'd have to do so or risk MS putting them out of business at some point.
Now, let me get back to playing Wolf3D and Spear of Destiny on my Steam download id megapack. :)
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