2009 Jan 26 2009
Layoffs in the area of Games for Windows
Nothing was published that the final number of layoffs at Microsoft would be 5,000 worldwide and that the Xbox division would not be little affected, but nothing was said about the Games for Windows ... In fact I just learned that Microsoft would be reduced in this area, whose goal was to revitalize the Titanic PC games for Windows Vista platform failed.
Specifically talking about the dismissal of general manager of Games for Windows Live and the dismantling of the team responsible for a classic, the Microsoft Flight Simulator, which does not mean you stop editing this game, is now aged 27, but take to the people and then see who will see it encasquetan. It also ends with the unemployment of many of the games testers.
The truth is I never understood the intent of Games for Windows. Video games have been essential in the past for one operating system to succeed and to modernize and renew the computer equipment, but today things have changed. The "gamers" have come to consoles, which is a cheaper way to get a newer machine for games (and in most cases just as easy to hack) and the PC remains the monopoly of strategy games in real time, some great players who play Crysis, versions of The Sims for laptops and little else. You do not need a new, more powerful PC, with one office and the Internet serves to let it kill us to play consoles already, whether domestic or laptops.
The Games for Windows brand and platform DirectX 10 was born burdened by the high piracy is on the PC, the integration of graphics cards on motherboards, the proliferation of portable configurations unsuitable for games and little or no acceptance Windows Vista. Attempts to cross the Xbox to the PC and make players play both platforms together not succeeded. Anyway, little positive can be taken out of the subject.
In any case, as they also say the guys at EA, layoffs for the company will emerge strengthened. I love this phrase! How cool is that?
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If it's great if you're not one who has been dismissed.
Just does not look it, but I mean it totally ironic tone
Just in case ...
Although I can imagine how they will be things for yahoo ....
A note: in addition to strategy games there is another genre that is currently on consoles infumable: MMORPGs. Not that gender is a very tiny ...
For the PCs they still have a long life as machines to play
A greeting!
Vincent
A PC to the latter is the best platform games, but not everyone does. Also, if still not get PC games or take several months after consoles, it loses some grace.