Why did E3 show nothing to forward pc gaming

Streeteh said:
Microsoft don't make profit on every sale of a PC game, they do when a 360 game sells. There's more to benefit from when advertising console games as not only do they get the hardware sale, they also get a reasonable percentage of every game sale, regardless of whether they produced it or not.
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Microsoft hardly make money on the 360 hardware; equally with Games for Windows Live they are going to be getting licensing; they get money for the development tools used to create the game
 
rypt said:
Microsoft hardly make money on the 360 hardware; equally with Games for Windows Live they are going to be getting licensing; they get money for the development tools used to create the game
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I never said hardware, i know consoles are sold either at a loss or with a very small profit margin. From what i understand the licensing fees they get for 360 games are far greater than those of GFW. But again you're just disagreeing with what i say but not giving any other explanation. I'm not trying to be argumentative and i'm certainly not saying my explanation is gospel, i'm honestly interested in your opinion. Why do MS not make a big deal out of PC games at E3 if it's not because they make more money out of 360 game sales?
 
Audigex said:
Piracy.

A huge proportion of PC games are pirated, a very small proportion of xbox/ps3/wii games are pirated.

It really doesn't take a genius to work out that they're not going to pump money into making games that as many people steal as buy.
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yet PC gaming since the start of 2009 has put out more high quality exclusives than the ps3 and especially xbox360 which had none. how do you explain this?
 
Simple; there is no united banner for PC gaming. Sony will showcase all of the best forthcoming PS3 games, likewise Microsoft with with the 360 and Nntendo with the Wii. There is no big PC speech as there is nobody to do a big PC speech.
 
Duran said:
yet PC gaming since the start of 2009 has put out more high quality exclusives than the ps3 and especially xbox360 which had none. how do you explain this?
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What exclusives has the PC released this year? Demigod is great but i haven't played any others.

Due to the rather poor advertising that PC games suffer from i usually miss out on a few gems.
 
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Streeteh said:
What exclusives has the PC released this year? Demigod is great but i haven't played any others.

Due to the rather poor advertising that PC games suffer from i usually miss out on a few gems.
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Empire Total War
Cryostasis
Dawn of War 2
Men of War
Necrovision
The Sims 3
Drakensang
Demigod
Killing Floor
Zeno Clash

games for all kind of tastes and an unmatchable list. It really shows that the OCuk community spends more time whining than playing pc games.
 
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