Xbox LIVE brings your games, music, movies, and TV shows to your favorite Microsoft and Windows devices. Bringing Xbox LIVE to Windows 8 is part of our vision to bring you all the entertainment you want, shared with the people you care about, made easy.
Of course, there isn't a whole lot of information about this feature right now, so nobody knows what Microsoft is really planning for Windows 8. This could just be a re-branding of the failed Games for Windows Live service, but at this point it's hard to tell.
So why do I bring this up here? Last year, Phantasy Star Universe was made available for purchase digitally on Microsoft's Games on Demand service for Xbox Live. You could buy that, download the Ambition of the Illuminus expansion and the "Guardians Advanced Content" expansion, and then play the game.
If Microsoft is intending to bring the entire Xbox Live experience to Windows 8 including Games on Demand, it wouldn't be a stretch to say that PC players would have an opportunity to get back into PSU on Xbox Live. You'd have to start over from scratch (assuming you don't already play the Xbox 360 version), but the option would be there. The Xbox 360 version of PSU should be playable on a PC thanks to DirectX (that's where the X in Xbox came from, after all).
On the other hand, it remains to be seen whether or not Phantasy Star Universe will survive until Windows 8 is officially released, probably no less than one year from now. Nevertheless, it's an interesting scenario to consider. How would the Xbox 360 PSU community (and the Xbox Live community in general) change if PC gamers were added into the mix?
3 comments:
It sounds like it would be a waste of time for everyone to have PSU playable on Windows again. By the time the O/S is out PSO2 should be out in Japan. Hell it could even have an English release (or at least be close to it) by then. I'd see no reason to bother with PSU by then, especially the Xbox360 version.
On a slightly related note: Windows 8 is looking absolutely hideous.
I agree, but I thought it was an interesting topic to bring up here. I personally don't think PSU will last that long, anyway.
Oh, and I'm not really liking Windows 8 at the moment, either. I don't have a tablet PC lying around, so I'm not really interested in having my PC look like a giant smartphone when it starts up...
Oh I hadn't thought of that. It would be morbidly entertaining to see an English PSU on a PC again.
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