Microsoft Confirms "No Plans" For Gears 2 on PC

Epic comment confirmed

2 Sept 2008

Following comments from Epic, Microsoft has piped up about the prospect of Gears of War 2 hitting the PC. They're not good

A Microsoft rep has stated the company has, “no plans to release Gears of War 2 on the PC”.

Epic design director Cliff Bleszinski recently said that, "Gears of War is a great franchise first and foremost for Xbox 360, and therefore we're focusing on that platform for Gears of War 2. We've decided we're not going to do a PC version this time around." Of course, it wouldn't have been unheard of for a PC port to be bundled off to another developer. Microsoft, however, seems fairly adamant that we won't see such a thing happening.

Sure, it was half a year after the launch of the first Gears on the 360 before the PC version was announced, but if Microsoft was planning a similar delayed port, it would certainly have "plans" for it by now.
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You can find out more about Gears 2 on SPOnG's dedicated game page.

Sources:
Australian PC Authority
IGN

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Posted by SuperSaiyan4
The PC is the worst system to make games for given the amount of piracy but although consoles are too effected by this if companies focused on shutting down these mod chip selling sites and perhaps used a different type of medium for games on the PC I think piracy could greatly be reduced if not hopefully one day eliminated.

PC games are just far too easy to crack and when someone slaps on anti-piracy protection on games many start complaining its not fair like with the Mass Effect issue on the PC.

If we compare the selection of games compared to PC the consoles definently have a bigger arsenal of choice and imo far better online gaming when comparing PC vs Xbox 360 as the Xbox 360 offers soo much more and simplicaty and no messing about with resources.

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Posted by phil cort
SuperSaiyan4 wrote:
The PC is the worst system to make games for given the amount of piracy but although consoles are too effected by this if companies focused on shutting down these mod chip selling sites and perhaps used a different type of medium for games on the PC I think piracy could greatly be reduced if not hopefully one day eliminated.

PC games are just far too easy to crack and when someone slaps on anti-piracy protection on games many start complaining its not fair like with the Mass Effect issue on the PC.

If we compare the selection of games compared to PC the consoles definently have a bigger arsenal of choice and imo far better online gaming when comparing PC vs Xbox 360 as the Xbox 360 offers soo much more and simplicaty and no messing about with resources.


the black and wight speaks agen lets put things into easy format for the single track mind
the xbox is a pc the 360 is a pc the big selling games on the 360 are pc games in one form or anther
piracy is bigger on consoles that on pc but it is around every type of media ( i bet if we look at you pc there is something the not meant to be there
gears of war on pc looks 100% better than that of the 360 but hay its the same with every game you see on pc versus 360 but hay you probably don't no that as a ges you have some pre built pile of crap that struggles playing minesweeper

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