In the latest holiday issue of PC Gamer magazine, there is a Microsoft advertisement showing a retail display for the "Games for Windows" PC games. And what game is pictured on the lower shelf squeezed between the PC versions of Shadowrun and Age of Empires III? Gears of War, you silly goose! This ad could just as well be "concept art" and just showing off Microsoft's big hitting video games, but why would they put a supposed Xbox 360 exclusive game like Gears of War in that ad if it wasn't going to be part of their Games for Windows marketing campaign? I'm betting all my chips on Gears of War coming to the PC in 2007, probably around August and only playable on Vista. Playing Gears on your PC, does that sound appealing to you?
Gears of War coming to PC ... maybe
In the latest holiday issue of PC Gamer magazine, there is a Microsoft advertisement showing a retail display for the "Games for Windows" PC games. And what game is pictured on the lower shelf squeezed between the PC versions of Shadowrun and Age of Empires III? Gears of War, you silly goose! This ad could just as well be "concept art" and just showing off Microsoft's big hitting video games, but why would they put a supposed Xbox 360 exclusive game like Gears of War in that ad if it wasn't going to be part of their Games for Windows marketing campaign? I'm betting all my chips on Gears of War coming to the PC in 2007, probably around August and only playable on Vista. Playing Gears on your PC, does that sound appealing to you?
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11-18-2006 @ 5:50PM
Rod said...
gayZor! Keep it to Xbox 360... to much cheaters on PC!
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11-18-2006 @ 6:07PM
Jonathan said...
The swedish webbsite: http://www.webhallen.com/prod.php?id=42560 shows Gears of war to PC and the date says: 4th quarter 2006.
This would be a a killer move for sales for windows Vista, but I think it will be a negative move for sales for the xbox360. A lot of people will use a pirate copied version of Windows Vista. I mean millions of people. And a lot of them maybe today thinks that they think its worth the money of a 360 just to play Gears of War. If available on the PC, I think that alot of people wont buy the 360 and play Gears on their computer instead.
What do you think?
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11-18-2006 @ 8:09PM
FiredCylinder said...
It's there for the same reason that gears of war demo was in that banner for XBox Live Arcade a few months ago. Someone in advertising really has no clue what's going on.
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11-18-2006 @ 8:57PM
Triforceowner said...
It will likely only be the top PC gaming geeks who would get it in the first few years. Think of the RAM, CPU power, and GPU power this game would take. Currently it supposedly takes over $2000 to update a computer to run Crysis smoothly.
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11-18-2006 @ 10:40PM
fluc02 said...
It might cost $2000 to build a computer to run Crysis maxed-out...I don't really know what you mean by $2000 to update a computer to run Crysis. PC games scale to hardware obviously so you'd be able to run it on just about anything if you don't mind it looking like ass. To make it look best you'd need a DX10 videocard, same for Gears most likely. As for people thinking it's fake, I can't see any reason MSoft wouldn't release it on PC. They get to release it now and sell more 360s (and pull attention from PS3/Wii), and then release it Vista-only and sell more copies of Vista (with help from the Vista-only Halo 2). It's a win-win. Though I definitely think they wouldn't want it revealed this soon, since if people see that they may hold off on a 360 purchase if they already have a nice gaming PC.
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11-19-2006 @ 4:53AM
alex said...
i thought the 360 was only dx9 fluc02... correct me if i'm wrong.
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11-19-2006 @ 10:26AM
Killer said...
I don't think Gear of War would be very great on pc, I mean in my opinion the game was made just for a console. Reasons: the View in 3rd/2nd person, and the controls. It wouldn't be the same game, if it was brought over to pc. I totally agree Jonathan too, it's not a smart strategy on microsoft if they do this.
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11-19-2006 @ 11:29AM
mike said...
it will come to pc probably like halo 2 in a few years time Q108 my guess
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11-19-2006 @ 4:46PM
Sinnix said...
The marketing department is probably just using it for a placeholder to make a pretty picture. This happens *all the time*.
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11-20-2006 @ 5:05AM
GhostDoggy said...
If the PC version supports more than two people in Co-Op then I'm in!
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11-20-2006 @ 11:27AM
Patrick said...
Yeah So? Halo did it, so did Fable why wouldn't Gears? With Xbox and x360 so similar to the PC in terms of development, it just makes sense. The problem is that these amazing xbox 'exclusives' aren't exclusives after a year or two. In the end, it will make M$ some more money, but it takes away from the need to have a 360.
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