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Microsoft Hopes for Matchmaking in all 360 Games

Posted by Zonk on from the get-out-there-meet-people-and-frag-them dept.

1up reports on comments from Phil Spencer, the Head of Game Development for Microsoft Game Studios. Speaking with the news organization at DICE Spencer clarified that, ideally, all 360 games should have matchmaking services ala Halo 2. Why didn't Epic's Gears of War ship with the feature? "The Epic scenario and why we don't have that code in Gears of War is really more of a scheduling issue than a 'We weren't going to share the code with them, or help them add that feature to the game' because it's clearly a great feature in online shooting play. For us, it was just 'could we get this done on time in order to get the game to come out when it needed to come out.'" Spencer does say that they have no problems sharing Halo 2's matchmaking code, and that future first-party titles should definitely offer it. Gears may even offer it one day, via a patch to the game.

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  1. MS is modular. Buy what you want. PS3 = inclusive. by trdrstv · · Score: 2, Informative
    Yes that's right. It's only the fanboys that say that Microsoft's console is significantly cheaper than the PS3 that are dumb. They've fallen for marketing tactics and haven't taken into account the total cost of a system.

    Nope. MS, and Sony simply went seperate routes. The 360 is Modular, where the PS3 is all inclusive.

    Do you want HD-DVD? That's optional. Do you want online multiplayer? That's optional. Do you want a Harddrive? That's optional. Believe it or not there are people out there who do't want or need any of those...

    Just like how the PS2 didn't have a HDD, a network adapter, multitap, etc... included. If you wanted it you paid extra. If you don't, you don't.

    The PS3 simply went the other way and said 'You will have a Hard drive', 'you will have Blu-ray', etc... whether you want it or not and included it into the price.