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Why MS remains dead silent on PC at this E3

Posted on Thursday, 17 July 2008 by Ryuken, source: IGN
IGN catched up with Microsoft's Kevin Unangst to explain why Games for Windows and MS's stance on PC gaming in general barely got any attention at E3 2008.

And guess what, they're holding back all the GfW sweets for a later event, claiming that 'E3 is the battle of the consoles'.

"At the end of the day, E3 is the battle of the consoles. We know that's predominantly what people are interested in, that's what the air time is about," said Unangst. "And so, rather than try and raise a volume level that's five minutes out of an hour and a half keynote, we said 'you know what, let's give PC its due.' We did an event in San Francisco two weeks ago, it had a whole separate rollout, we talked to folks, we showed some of the great new games coming up. And then here tonight we're having our own dedicated event for the people who truly care about the PC and are tracking it. That was a decision on our part that says the consoles are going to fight it out, I'd rather have a dedicated event where we can talk, where we can showcase the news. There's going to be even more. We're talking about it at Gamefest next week. If we did it the other way, you'd be saying why was there only five minutes of Games for Windows during an hour and a half?"
Strange that he says it would only receive five minutes of attention during a Microsoft keynote. Is the upcoming information also gonna take only five minutes to explain? :)

Anyway, while his reasons sound a bit odd, Unangst does seem to hint that more things are coming to Games for Windows and its Live service. With Dawn of War II offering all Live functionality completely free, will we see other new games throwing away the Gold subcriber exclusives as well? It's Microsoft's call but if you look at other PC matchmaking services then they don't seem to have any choice if they want to be successful.
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