Windows Phone 7 is Microsoft’s ‘mobile console’

Those of you who were hoping Microsoft would create a portable console in a similar fashion to its home console rivals Nintendo and Sony are in for a disappointment, as the company has revealed that its new Windows Phone 7 platform is intended to be its ‘mobile platform for games’.

Kevin Unangst, senior global director of PC and mobile gaming at Microsoft, went on to explain that ‘the same people who make the Halo game, the same development folks, work on this, this is our mobile console’.

WP7’s library of premium games has been growing steadily since its launch last October, and the company now reports that there are over 5,000 apps now available in the fledgling Zune Marketplace (compared to 100,000 in the Android Market and over 300,000 in the App Store).

As our recent top 10 reveals, though, there are plenty of high quality titles already available on the platform, despite the lack of quantity.