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Microsoft Plots Future of Xbox and PC Gaming

Posted by Zonk on from the nice-to-have-that-kind-of-power dept.

Next Generation continues to report on the DICE event, where another session with MS VP Peter Moore talked about the future of PC and Xbox gaming. He reiterated an earlier statement the company had made saying they were culpable in the decline of PC gaming. In response to that, Moore says the company is planning a PC gaming renaissance through the Vista Operating System. He also talked about the success of the Xbox Live system. From that article: "He said there have been 4 million pieces of content downloaded from Xbox Live since launch. He talked about Xbox Live Arcade and the success of the try-before-you-buy model. He used the example of Geometry Wars (pictured), for which 36 percent of consumers who downloaded the demo bought the game. The average Xbox Live Arcade conversion is 20 percent, with the lowest conversion rate for a game being 10 percent."

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  1. Re:MSN, Xbox, PC Gaming Timeline by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Informative

    > but I fail to see how a rougly 25-30% market share equals

    WTF???

    PS2: 100 million
    GameCube 22 million
    Xbox: 21 million

    Microsoft has about %14 of the market and shrinking now that the crappy Xbox hardware has had to be discontinued. Microsoft will end this gen with marketshare down near %10. Just because your entry a race flunks out doesn't mean the race is over.

    And the 360 is doing massively worse than the first Xbox...