[QUOTE="trix5817"][QUOTE="Radiant_Sol"][QUOTE="trix5817"][QUOTE="Radiant_Sol"][QUOTE="trix5817"][QUOTE="Radiant_Sol"][QUOTE="trix5817"][QUOTE="Radiant_Sol"][QUOTE="trix5817"]FOR THE LAST TIME, MS DOES NOT OWN PC GAMING!!!!!!!! I've thing I've said this 5 times already today. I am sick of people saying this.Radiant_Sol
No Windows = No PC gaming
Enjoy your MacNo Intel CPU or AMD CPU=No PC gaming!
Nice way of tipttoeing my response :D
No IBM = No PS3 or 360!
No Nvidia = No PS3!
No ATI = No 360
No Texas Instruments = No Transistors = No Modern Computers!!!
This is fun!
Fact is:
No Windows = No PC gaming *PERIOD*No Intel or no AMD= No PC gaming period. I can name other parts if you want! Fact is, no one owns PC gaming. MS has no control over PC games, while they have control over 360 games. MS directly gets profits from games made for the 360, while they don't for PC games. They actually have to PAY publishers to put the "Games for Windows" tab on games.....
I really don't understand that kind of logic. Since ATI, Nvidia and IBM have also made the parts to the PS3, Wii and 360 does that mean that Sony, Nintendo and Microsoft don't own those respective consoles as well? Think about it.
Go look at your PC, there's probably a little tag there that says "Designed for Windows XP/Vista" or "Built for Windows XP/Vista".It's a Microsoft system dude...Do ATI, Nvidia, and IBM get a direct profit from the games? Do they have control over the games for consoles? Nope. Does MS get a direct profit from PC games like they do for 360 games? Nope. They don't own PC gaming anymore than Intel does. About 80% of PC's have Intel CPU's inside them, does this mean that they own PC gaming? Nope. Just because MS has their OS on 90% of PC's, doesn't mean they own PC's. They own the OS, ONE PART OF THE PC, and they don't directly profit from PC games. I would bet that ATI and Nvidia profit more from PC gameing more than MS does.
I think you might have missed my other post. I said that the PC is very much an "open platform", where microsoft makes the base (Windows) and everybody is free to program for it. Regardless of the fact that MS does not directly control every game, MS does directly influence every game made. All games must utilize the DirectX API, use Shader Model 3.0+ ect. Heck, even ATI and Nvidia have both moved into Unified shaders because it's a requirement of DX10. The simple fact of the matter is, PC games are built on ONE platform, and that platform is Windows. That means nothing though. MS doesn't control PC games, no matter how you put it. They don't make a direct profit like they do off the 360. And OS and system are two totally different things. A PC and a console are systems, while an OS is just part of that system. Developers also have to programm for ATI and Nvidia cards, Intel and AMD CPU's, etc, etc. MS can't say, "if you want to make games for PC's, then you have to give us a share of the profit", while with 360 games, they do just that.
You see, that's how companies profit from open sourcing. "You can make whatever you want, but if somebody buys it, they have to buy our product first". Microsoft makes a HUGE profit each year (I'm sure you know) and part of that is attributed to PC gaming.If PC gamers are such pirates as console fanboys assume I cant see M$ making alot of money from the OS... :lol:Â
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