Some XBLA games are gonna be released for Windows 8!

[Eerpow]

Hell yeah pinball FX!

 

[The Milkman]

Not XBLA games.

Alan Wake, Geometry Wars, Braid, Darwinia, Serious Sam HD and Super Meat Boy say otherwise.

Serious Sam was released on PC first to my knowledge, and Alan Wake isn't an XBLA game.

Alan Wake's American Nightmare was released on XBLA and was later ported to PC. There have always been XBLA games brought over to the PC, this isn't anything new.

Also Bastion and Limbo.

But yeah, there are already PC ports of most of these games.

 

[narutofan777]

i don't like those games at all, steam wins!

 

[Issac]

I find this positive. I don't have an Xbox 360. and I am interested in many XBLA games, and if those have a chance to show up on windows 8, I won't be sad!
Now, none of the games on that list sparks my interest right away, but it'll sure come a few in due time.
Oh, except minesweeper. I fucking love minesweeper!

 

[naglaro00]

I dont see FEZ in that list

 

[Guild McCommunist]

Well you could seem some of the Microsoft-backed XBLA games here. Like Shadow Complex and most of their Summer of Arcade titles.

 

[machomuu]

I don't know how I feel about this. I mean, the PC is my prefered gaming console and my Xbox is collecting dust...but having said that, I don't want less incentive to play my 360 (okay, actually I do, but I don't see why MS would want that).

 

[Janthran]

oh yeah I knew about that a while ago
I forgot to tell you guys about that

 

[Sonic4Ever]

Bah! That's Microsoft's way to trick people once again into thinking Windows 8 will be Xbox compatible. Almost all of these games on that list have been part of the Games for Windows online store for a long time.

 

[DSGamer64]

All I see is shovelware and phone games.

 

[Pleng]

Just because two companies are selling in the same field doesn't mean that they're competitors, and even if in the future they do have some new and enticing way to rival Steam, it's irrelevant, simply because this isn't then. Plus, I don't see anyone turning away from Steam to buy Minesweeper or Solitaire, and in a less jokingly, BlazBlue. People would just get both until they have some reason to rival each other, which isn't now.

There are two types of market competition: competing for new customers to the sector, and competing for existing companies in the sector.

My argument was clearly focused on the first, and your response was clearly based on the second...

Not really, as I said, they're appealing to different crowds, I don't think they're competing at all for that reason. That's like...up, hold on

If you say so. I disagree.

Why? My problem is that you haven't said anything to suggest that why they're competing, you've just been saying how they are.

http://gbatemp.net/topic/333622-some-xbla-games-are-gonna-be-released-for-windows-8/page__view__findpost__p__4372775

 

[RchUncleSkeleton]

So they want to port games that use controller input to a gesture based system? AFAIK, Windows 8 is made for touch screens and uses gestures as its default form of interaction.

 

[chartube12]

So they want to port games that use controller input to a gesture based system? AFAIK, Windows 8 is made for touch screens and uses gestures as its default form of interaction.

So wrong....not many PC owners have a touch screen. Please don't spread lies.

As for the topic...It is very old information. It was announced back in Apirl-ish, windows 8 would play some xbox 360 software/games. There was even 3 separate threads bringing the topic up. But I guess no one noticed, 80% of gbatemp were too busy bitching about the start menu and wrongfully thinking there was no desktop.

 

[Guild McCommunist]

So they want to port games that use controller input to a gesture based system? AFAIK, Windows 8 is made for touch screens and uses gestures as its default form of interaction.

So wrong....not many PC owners have a touch screen. Please don't spread lies.

As for the topic...It is very old information. It was announced back in Apirl-ish, windows 8 would play some xbox 360 software/games. There was even 3 separate threads bringing the topic up. But I guess no one noticed, 80% of gbatemp were too busy bitching about the start menu and wrongfully thinking there was no desktop.

I don't think any of these threads had a list of the games.

 

[RchUncleSkeleton]

So they want to port games that use controller input to a gesture based system? AFAIK, Windows 8 is made for touch screens and uses gestures as its default form of interaction.

So wrong....not many PC owners have a touch screen. Please don't spread lies.

I guess you don't know what AFAIK means... I've been informed recently that even the keyboard and mouse driven PCs use gesture based input but that there is a normal desktop setting which allows you to use it like a normal pc. I'd like to also mention that there's a version called windows 8 rt that's designed to specifically run on ARM processor based tablets.