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According to Rahul Sood, CTO of gaming at Hewlett-Packard, Microsoft had been working on a project to bring console and PC gamers together, enabling cross-platform play in games such as Unreal and Gears of War.
However, this project never saw the light of day.
“Rumour has it that there was a project many many months ago at Microsoft that was under wraps,” explained Sood on his blog. “The goal was to bridge Xbox gamers with PC Gamers so they could play against one another in games like Unreal, or Gears of War. This was all part of their Live strategy, and had Microsoft just stuck to their guns and made it work PC Gaming might be in a much better position than it is today.”
Sood continued: “There was a project that got killed at Microsoft. This project was designed to allow console gamers and PC gamers to interact and battle over a connected environment. Personally I wish it would have stayed the course. I’ve heard from reliable sources that during the development they brought together the best console gamers to play mediocre PC gamers at the same game… and guess what happened? They pitted console gamers with their “console” controller, against PC gamers with their keyboard and mouse.
“The console players got destroyed every time. So much so that it would be embarrassing to the Xbox team in general had Microsoft launched this initiative.”
Why the project was scrapped remains a mystery to Sood.
He concluded: “It’s a real shame that Microsoft killed this – because had they kept it alive it might have actually increased the desire of game developers and gamers alike to continue developing and playing rich experiences on the PC which would trickle down to the console as it has in the past.”
Via NeoGAF
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