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4/15/2012 7:23:42 AM
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[quote][b]Posted by:[/b] General Heed As for the cross-platform initiative failing, I still disagree with that. I was there from day 1 and I still play the cross-platform games today. I played from both platforms and I never noticed any significant skill gaps. Technically, it never even failed. Microsoft still added a few more cross-platform games afterwards. One came out pretty recently and supposedly more are coming. [/quote] I believe Microsoft tries to hamper cross-platform gaming because it doesn't maximize profits. Requiring players to buy seperate copies in order to play with with PC gaming friends, and then their console gaming friends, is more profitable. I don't think it ever came down to question of which interface, mouse or controller was superior. People at Microsoft have thought this way since day one. Profit is the first priority. Enabling people to play any game with each other while only buying one copy instead of one for each platform cuts in to profits. If you look at Valve's Portal 2, Microsoft's policies prevented the cross-platform ability shared by PS3, Mac, and Windows versions. Microsoft gets a cut out of the DLC distributed for any game. [Edited on 04.14.2012 11:24 PM PDT]
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