The irony is now MSFT needs these other developers to port their successful iOS/Android games to their platform. MSFT shouldn't be making this a difficult choi

The irony is now MSFT needs these other developers to port their successful iOS/Android games to their platform. MSFT shouldn't be making this a difficult choice for devs. The few people who do end up with Win RT tablets and such will likely hear about games/apps working on other platforms and then look to see if they are available on the Win device...and since MSFT put up this wall....well....users will think should've bought an iPad. (Note, i'm actually a little excited about the Surface tablet as a potential device that crosses the chasm between full tablet and laptop. But I don't have very many apps that I use now on my iPad.) EDIT: Also, I don't know much about any game development SDK engines that abstract devs from these proprietary libraries and runtimes...however I think they must exist?