London An interesting blog post suggests Microsoft killed a cross-platform gaming initiative because console gamers weren't good enough. Or does it?
The co-founder of Voodoo PC and CTO of HP's gaming business, Rahul Sood, claims that Microsoft ditched a project to allow competitive online gaming between the PC and Xbox 360, because console owners couldn't compete. "I've heard from reliable sources that during the development they brought together the best console gamers to play mediocre PC gamers at the same game," he says.
"They pitted console gamers against PC gamers with their keyboard and mouse," he said. And the console players lost every time. What he seems to be saying is that the imbalance is in the control interface. The mouse and keyboard allows for more precision than a joypad. "It would be embarrassing to the Xbox team in general had Microsoft launched this initiative."
