MS is making the XBox for the hardcore console gamer, not PC. PC gamers and console gamers are 2 different types of gamers. Because someone is heavy into one, it does not mean that they will be heavy into another.
Myself, I am heavy into both. Shogun: Total War (Warlord Edition of course) is one of my favorite games of all time. Its a PC game. I would not like it on a console even if it had a keyboard. PC games require a different amount of dedication and discipline than console games. For instance, you'll pretty much never see a console users manual that is 200 pages long. The longest console manual I've ever seen was for Wing Commander 3 for the 3DO, and that was a port of a PC game (a GREAT port at that). But the gameplay in that was more console like than PC like.
In my view, online or not, PC gaming and Console gaming should keep as 2 separate entities. If you need to have a keyboard to play the game correctly, than I'd rather see it released as a PC game. But if you can make an indepth title that is fun and easily played with a controller, then bring it to the Box.
Look at PE. Most people would say "Hey, that looks like a PC game.", but it has never even been planned to bve brought to a PC at all. It is being developed exclusively for the XBox.
I think you will be seeing more of that as consoles become more and more powerful. Developers mixing the size and depth of PC games with the gameplay of console games. But make no mistake, they are console games.
Look at all of the FPS games coming to consoles in the near future. This was a genre that has been ruled by the PC world until recently. Now the focus is switching to consoles.
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What the hell was I talking about?
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