![]() On the plus side, PC owners do still get to play some console greats. By the time the likes of Halo turned up on PC, its Xbox incarnation had been in bargain bins for ages. With big exclusives harvested from the PC, Microsoft promised that they would be ported back to their home platform - but the process took years rather than months. Popping Jade Empire: Special Edition into the DVD drive of a PC brings the memories flooding back, though. Whatever other problems the PC may have had, the Xbox hasn't been one of them. The accusation didn't hold water sure, the likes of Halo may have been plucked from the PC release schedules, but we've seen plenty of top-notch platform exclusives on Xbox and PC alike in the last five years. This, of course, was back when Microsoft was the bad guy, as incredible as that seems now. Way back in the mists of gaming history, when Microsoft first announced that it was going to build a console, one of the more troubling accusations levelled at the Xbox was that it would be a death-knell for PC gaming. ![]()
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