PC Gamers Too Good For Microsoft's Gaming Project?

22 July 2010
Rahul Sood, Voodoo PC founder and current CTO of gaming at HP, spins an interesting yarnabout an aborted Microsoft project that would've let PC and Xbox gamers face-off. The only problem? During testing, the PC gamers cleaned Xboxers' clocks. In the middle of a rumination on the lukewarm state of PC gaming, Sood divulges some details of a project Microsoft was working on "many many months ago" to let PC and Xbox users face off in games like Gears of War and Unreal Tournament, an effort that would've effectively bridged the gap between Xbox Live and Windows Live.

Sadly for the project, the fight wasn't exactly a fair one:

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.

That's not entirely surprising to anyone who's fragged on both platforms—Matt Buchanan says "i'd slaughter anybody using a controller if i had a keyboard and mouse"—but it's interesting nevertheless to hear just how thoroughly the Xbox gamers supposedly got their asses whooped. [Rahul Sood via CrunchGear]

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3 comments

  • Comment Link klasbo Sunday, 25 July 2010 15:59 posted by klasbo

    As someone commented on the original article:
    [quote]I'm so shocked. Oh wait, no I'm not.[/quote]

    Imagine Starcraft II for the Wii... *shudders*

  • Comment Link Scribbles Friday, 23 July 2010 13:54 posted by Scribbles

    console fags would cry hard. lol

    But meh, if you couldn't see this happening then you don't deserve to play games.

  • Comment Link XGoldX Thursday, 22 July 2010 03:32 posted by XGoldX

    Looks like Razer mouse :)

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