Especially being an up and coming independent game developer. if they are developing a game for the PC, they have to look at their other choices as well. the 360 has a great install user base as you said there are 17 million units out there.

Imagine if Crysis did come out on the 360 with its PC version it would have had much better sales. reason many people didn’t buy it for the PC, mainly because they didn’t have the hardware to run the game on their PC. So having it on the 360 would of given it while not the biggest number of sales, still a great increase in the sales it had.

if i was the head of a up and coming game developer studio and i was just aiming to have my game on the PC, i would be definitely looking to bring it out on the 360 as it is much easier to program for and the reward would be much greater.

Reason i wouldn’t be looking to release on the PS3, is mainly because of the difficulty to program and also i wouldn’t have the man power to have a certain group designated to program for the PS3.

But later down the track after getting more funds, and an increased man power install base, i would definitively be looking to the PS3, unless of course MS were to buy my studio then i work for Microsoft Game Studios hehe

Plus they see a HUGE and stead growth in the take up of consoles and when they see an attachment rate of 6:1 for the 360, and that there’s now 17 million units out there . .you’d have to be daft not to even consider the possibilities . .

It’s just been reported that Alan Wake will be a Vista Exclusive (but also including the 360 – naturally) . .and as we know, it runs DivX. And yet they say the game will be appearing on the 360 as promised.

So the old bah-who of games like that if they have DivX10 support on the PC, can’t and wont run on the 360 . . it’s bulldust. Do people honestly think that a game that is costing upwards of $US25mil to make and develop, let alone market will be JUST set aside for a OS that has yet to be fully taken up, and the bulk of the OS available to end users is XP . . no, they’ll look at the 360 as their alternative.

There’s actual footage of gameplay of Crysis running on 360 hardware, just in DivX9, not DivX10 . . . showing that the game can and does run on the 360. But Crteck don’t want to sink their PC boat, so mention of it simply isn’t made. We will see some form of Crysis on the 360 at some stage. As t when and in what form we simply don’t know at this stage.

There’s a few sleep games hanging around that could well add a different dimension to games now that we have stronger consoles to warrant the developers to go further with them

Now that Russian developers of STALKER are on side with MS Certification, there’s a very strong that STALKER and its follow add-on Clear Skies will grace the 360. Both of which I’d actually love to see on the 360

So it’ll be interesting to see how it plays out, and how they merge both Windows and XboxLive together. It seemed to work on Shadowrun (which btw may well have a sequel coming out ?? )

It could be the thing that gets many Solo-Single players involved in MP . . . and visa-versa . . . ?