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Microsoft shows off Windows Phone 7 games
BIG GAMER EVENT Gamescom 2010 in Cologne, Germany has been Microsoft's venue for announcing its Windows Phone 7 games that it thinks will set it apart from its competitors.
The video games will be available for Windows Phone 7 at launch or shortly after with 50 titles that are a mix of new and old. The choices are designed to target casual and hardcore gamers. The games include Bejeweled, Uno, Game Chest and a collection of card and board games.
The Vole also announced that its Windows Phone 7 games will be linked to Xbox LIVE. There seems to be an indication of a tie in between the games console and the phone. This includes games like CarneyVale: Showtime, which will be ready to play this fall when the phone launches.
Microsoft indicated that it is marketing the launch of the Windows Phone 7 games more like it would a games console. Which is fair enough as it has done rather well at that, rather than like its phones where it has been pretty pants. µ
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Most of those games are available on other phone platforms.
We know that Microsoft has been running around trying to offer iPhone developers massive amounts of cash in hand to port their iPhone games to Windows Phone 7.
That does not mean there is any natural ecosystem for Windows Phone 7.
In fact, any ecosystem will be killed by the fact that Microsoft itself is the biggest game developer for the platform, competing against independent software vendors.
Why bother?
Wow! Where can I pre-order this awesome hardware running the latest and great LoseDoze 7 (err, 6.1) operating system that will allow me to point and click and browse the web and play games - all things that are difficult if not IMPOSSIBLE to do with any other product!
Won't work this time, but it's all they've got.