One of the features gamers may have been looking forward to on Microsoft’s Live gaming service was the ability for Xbox 360 players to compete against PC players in a multiplayer game. But the promise of such a feature has apparently now disappeared as Microsoft has canned the project.

News of the cancellation came via Rahul Sood, founder of Voodoo PC and CTO of HP’s Gaming Business. He explained the reason why in a blog post:

I’ve heard from reliable sources that during the development they brought together the best console gamers to play mediocre PC gamers at the same game… and guess what happened? They pitted console gamers with their “console” controller, against PC gamers with their keyboard and mouse.

 

The console players got destroyed every time. So much so that it would be embarrassing to the XBOX team in general had Microsoft launched this initiative.

So unfortunately if you were looking forward to killing your PC gaming friend while playing on your Xbox 360, it just isn’t going to happen. Keyboard and mouse against console joypad is just not a fair match up.