Microsoft: “It is our job to lead the way on PC”

Having received much criticism over its lack of support for the PC and the Games for Windows Live service, Microsoft Games Studios General Manager Dave Luehmann is now saying that the company should be putting resources into the platform.

“Other companies should look to Microsoft for leadership, but I’m not sure they do,” said Luehmann in a recent interview with MCV. “It is our job to lead the way on PC. And in some ways we are doing that and in other ways we are not. So we need to step up.”

According to Luehmann, Microsoft plans to invest in the PC by bringing three big IPs to the platform: Fable III, Age of Empires Online and Microsoft Flight. All three titles will use the Games for Windows Live service. However, he says the company isn’t going to stop there.

“I think it is the responsibility of first parties to push the business models in to new directions. We will test some ideas…some will work and some won’t.”