Title: cross-platform multilayer
Mjr.Snake - March 5, 2008 07:58 PM (GMT)
I just read something I would never see ... cross-platform multilayer
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Microsoft today unveiled its roadmap for PC and Xbox 360 cross-platform gaming, predicting that "the floodgates will open" for software playable across the two formats by 2008.
Speaking in a session at the Games Convention Developer Conference in Leipzig, Microsoft UK third-party account manager Steven Blackburn offered delegates an update on the firm's Xbox Live service. He also provided details of future plans for marketplace, Live Arcade and the Vista and 360-linking Live Anywhere service.
Blackburn confirmed that the first truly cross-platform playabletitle, Shadowrun, will launch in early 2007 - before revealing that Microsoft will incorporate a number of online-only gamer achievements to help deliver "first blood" in persuading gamers to try out the online functionality between PC and console. Blackburn added that the first third-party cross-platform content would arrive in autumn 2007, by which time the application and certification process will have been finalised, with the "flood gates to open for all titles" in 2008. |
source: http://www.neowin.net/index.php?act=view&id=34699It appears that "universe at war" will have that feature between the 360 and the PC.
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| AS THE FIRST GAMES FOR WINDOWS – LIVE RTS TITLE, UNIVERSE AT WAR ALSO OFFERS ALL THE GREAT FEATURES OF LIVE, INCLUDING ACHIEVEMENTS, THE COMMUNITY OF LIVE GAMERS, AND, MOST IMPORTANTLY, CROSS-PLATFORM GAMING, ALLOWING PC GAMERS TO BATTLE AGAINST 360 GAMERS WHEN THE XBOX 360 VERSION SHIPS IN EARLY 2008. |
Roy Campbell - March 5, 2008 08:05 PM (GMT)
This can only be a step forward in the video game industry.
Hopefully, this will lead to every game having cross-platform online play in the future.
Johnyman - March 5, 2008 08:29 PM (GMT)
Didn't Shadowrun have cross platform?
Anyways,I agree,this may not only be a big step for gaming,but for the end of fanboyism as well. Who knows what would happen,I'm sure as hell very optimistic about it.
Mjr.Snake - March 5, 2008 08:33 PM (GMT)
you might be right, but it might deepen it. I'll just quote some things that are popping to my mind "haha f0ck3r ! I pwnz0r3d ur mfck1n 4ss b14tch !! go crap in ur PC/360/PS3 !!!" "PFFT YOU F0CKIN NOOB YOU SUCK WITH UR PC/360/PS3 !! MY PC/360/PS3 ROCKZZ !!!"
Johnyman - March 5, 2008 08:35 PM (GMT)
| QUOTE (Mjr.Snake @ Mar 5 2008, 08:33 PM) |
| you might be right, but it might deepen it. I'll just quote some things that are popping to my mind "haha f0ck3r ! I pwnz0r3d ur mfck1n 4ss b14tch !! go crap in ur PC/360/PS3 !!!" "PFFT YOU F0CKIN NOOB YOU SUCK WITH UR PC/360/PS3 !! MY PC/360/PS3 ROCKZZ !!!" |
I'm guess I'm Pwnd...
But still that's the worst case scenario,right?!
Roy Campbell - March 5, 2008 08:36 PM (GMT)
| QUOTE (Mjr.Snake @ Mar 5 2008, 08:33 PM) |
| you might be right, but it might deepen it. I'll just quote some things that are popping to my mind "haha f0ck3r ! I pwnz0r3d ur mfck1n 4ss b14tch !! go crap in ur PC/360/PS3 !!!" "PFFT YOU F0CKIN NOOB YOU SUCK WITH UR PC/360/PS3 !! MY PC/360/PS3 ROCKZZ !!!" |
That is always going to happen. You get those idiots anyway, going cross-platform is not going to increase idiot percentages in the online population.