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This in theory would be a great concept and perhaps it is about money. I have to say though alot of console players have terrible connections. Microsoft can't seem to get it right even on their own system and there maybe nothing they can do. Dedicated servers is the way to go but I have played so much multiplayer even on those types of servers and it's awful. If it was truely just about money, I'd pay more just so online could run smooth but I don't see that happening either.
Well, MS hates Sony and vice versa. MS had some plans to allow Xbox and PC players play together but then they found out that console players were getting destroyed in PvP by PC players so they axed all cross platform capability.
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news...-Platform-Play
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Originally Posted by Cavadus
Makes you wonder where they dredged up their players. Sounds more like they found mediocre console players to justify killing the concept when they realized they wouldn't be able to milk PC players for that XBox Live account.Quote:
Sood's sources claim that Microsoft pitted the best console players using control pads against "mediocre" PC gamers with mice and keyboards and found that the console players were "destroyed every time." It was apparently so bad, he wrote, that cross-platform play would have been an embarrassment to the Xbox team.
Said this in another thread but the bad blood between Sony and Microsoft dates back long before xbox was even a concept. IGN actually did a pretty good article on this a few weeks back. They've never played nice together and i don't think anyone expects they ever will lol.
Kotaku did a good article as well. In the article it states that microsoft wanted to partner with Sony to make the playstation crossplatform with windows and Sony turned them down. Microsoft built the xbox out of spite.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mindfix
Yeah that's pretty much what the IGN article read and built out of spite is a good way to put it lol.Quote:
Originally Posted by bperky38
im sure many of us have heard these tales from ms. Funny thing is everyone elses results disagreed. Alot of games support kb/m on console. Native. Plus 101 ways to fit one. If they were really that bothered they wouldn't allow it at all.Quote:
Originally Posted by Cavadus
Its ms hiding behind smoke and mirrors for them holding back the market.
Besides hurting ps3 customers, xbox has also botched deals for their customers, DC Universe, MGS4, And uncharted were having talk about cross platform and that never happend. Hopefully they drop the code of honor and try to build a working relationship gamers can benefit from.Quote:
Originally Posted by bperky38
the only way i can see any kind of progession is if one of them, sony more likly, push for cross platform with the pc. if they start making it a more regular item it will force ms to react with the xbox. otherwise risk loosing gamers.
they already have at least 3 cross platform pc gamesQuote:
Originally Posted by Dead_Phoenix