Others ”should look” to Microsoft for PC leadership, but they’ve not been on the ball. Their studios ”need to step up”, and they’re ‘not stopping’.
”There’s been a fair bit of criticism aimed at Microsoft that we were spending a lot of our focus on console, and we need to be putting resources behind PC as well,” said Luehmann. When Ensemble Studios closed it was a mighty blow to PC strategy gamers.
”Other companies should look to Microsoft for leadership, but I’m not sure they do. It is our job to lead the way on PC. And in some ways we are doing that and in other ways we are not. So we need to step up.” If anything it has been the likes of Valve, Stardock Games and Paradox who’ve been keeping the PC lighthouse bulb changed.
”We are putting some real investment and big IPs behind the Windows platform. We’ve spoken of the first three, Fable III, Age of Empires Online and Microsoft Flight. However we are not going to stop there,” continued the Microsoft Game Studios boss.
Fable III releases on PC as well as on Xbox 360 although it’s no longer a simultaneous date, and Lionhead have yet to pin down when PC gamers can rule Albion. Recently Kinect’s boss Kudo Tsunoda said hardly anyone plays PC first-person shooters.
