The form that the newly-liveried “XBOX Live Games” will take is a platform spanning between the XBOX 360, Live for Windows on PC and handsets sporting Microsoft’s Windows Mobile operating system.
The major oversight that we would level at the service (as did Kotaku) is that the Windows phones restriction, arguably cutting off a huge swathe of the market.
No mention is made of XBOX LIve Games support for the Zune media player or smartphones running on other platforms, but to only support the least gaming friendly operating system is a mistake to say the least.
With a bevy of capable pretenders to the community gaming throne on iPhone (with OpenFeint releasing a standalone app for achievement addicts), it would have been great to see Microsoft bring some cross-platform gaming action over Live.
A Herculean effort, but the dividends would have been far greater than focussing on merely their own platform. Perhaps some new games are in the offing for Windows Mobile? It’ll certainly need them if they want XBOX Live Games – and Windows Mobile as a gaming platform – to take off.
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