Epic: "Xbox Live is the online leader"

The president of developer Epic Games has said he believes Microsoft is leading the way in online gaming. Speaking to GamesIndustry, Dr. Michael Capps, chief of the Gears of War developer, said: "the way you continue to do that is to keep adding cool stuff that everybody wants. Netflix is a great example - making me watch my movies on my Xbox!" But Capps added his firm has not contribued much to Xbox Live due to its hectic schedule. "It's tough, because we really wanted to - and obviously, being first party we work very closely with their tech teams, but they were finishing it after we were locking down a lot of our core feature sets, so we could only do so much," said Capps. "But I love the fact that you boot through the dashboard now - I understand how some gamers might not like it so much, but that's how you join into the Xbox Live experience - your dashboard comes up, you get to see what's new, hey, there's some free stuff you didn't know about - instead of just booting into your game and missing the community."