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Posted by: Musashi 360 2
LOL Fable II and GoW
Guess you meant Fable 3, although there's no PC port release date in sight. They've missed their chance, again.
Posted by: Musashi 360 2
seeing that Halo 2 did not do well in sales, M$ logically declined porting H3 to the PC. They would not get enough money for it in sales, to justify re-coding it. And yes, you are right, they are coded in C#, but as you obviously don't know, the Xbox has specific functions, large quantities of code can NOT be just copy/pasted and compiled for a PC, specifically due to the processor architecture differences (as I mentioned before), and other hardware specs.
No, they're not coded in C#. The CPUs might use different instruction sets but that's not to say that the programs can't be ported to different architectures fairly easily. Obviously it's going to vary from game to game and as outsiders it's hard to go beyond speculation.
Halo 2 performed poorly because it was used as a marketing tool for Vista and GFWL. Despite being two years late to the scene and rather lacklustre, Halo PC proved that there was a market for a PC port of the franchise. One source claimed sales in excess of 3.5 million after two years on the market (no idea about the accuracy).
[Edited on 02.26.2011 4:04 PM PST]