Windows 8 games will be known as Xbox Windows

[Jeremy Proome]

Microsoft dubs Windows 8 games as Xbox Windows

Microsoft rebrands its Games for Windows label, and attaches Gamerscores

 

[Razza]

now they can register it with the IOC

 

[murraybiscuit]

i assume gabe sees himself being squeezed out of business sometime in future?

 

[Rocket Raccoon]

This will confuse the ever loving **** out of tannies buying games for the kids even more.

i assume gabe sees himself being squeezed out of business sometime in future?

Huh? How will a name change do that?

 

[cerebus]

XBOX Windows.... seems like a branding fail to me. Nobody likes Games for Windows Live, I get that, and people do like XBOX, but the XBOX brand is not part of the computing hub. It's just confusion.

 

[biometrics]

Whatever.

 

[LazyLion]

Cross platform confusion FTW! :wtf:

 

[Necuno]

Cross platform confusion FTW! :wtf:

You need a new jihad

 

[KleinBoontjie]

Like all new things, confusing in the beginning. Struggling to get the name to grow on people. Then a few months along the line, you can't get the people to stop using the name.

 

[falcon786]

XBOX Windows.... seems like a branding fail to me. Nobody likes Games for Windows Live, I get that, and people do like XBOX, but the XBOX brand is not part of the computing hub. It's just confusion.

Yeah minesweeper and solitaire are hardly xbox type games....i dont like it.

 

[unskinnybob]

Microsoft dubs Windows 8 games as Xbox Windows

Microsoft rebrands its Games for Windows label, and attaches Gamerscores

Sounds like someone in marketing just got a giant mental erection and skullfuct everyone in product branding that used to have a grain of sense. Seriously, the NEW iPad with Retina display is starting to sound sensible.