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disolitude on 18 March 2013
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pezus said:
disolitude said:
pezus said:
disolitude said:
Here is how this is going to work...

Halo 3 - xbox live release for Win 8, win RT, Xbox 360, Xbox 720, Windows Phone 8 simultaneous release. Buy one copy for 29.99...get access to it on all platforms. Multiplayer across platforms.

Guy can dream can't he?

Except that Halo 3 has been rumoured to come out on Steam. Making it Xbox Live/Win8 exclusive would be incredibly stupid and only act to deny them sales. Because, let's face it, a 6 year old console port isn't going to make people upgrade if they haven't already. Unless you mean Xbox Live+Steam, then it's possible.

I don't think Microsoft cares for a 5 year old console game sales on PC. They would much rather have a news headline for cross platform play and give people reasons to switch to Win8/win phone. Much like they did to Halo 2 and Vista.

In the last month there have been 2 Xbox Live games that allow for cross platform play

Skulls of the Shogun - Win 8 Win RT, Win Phone and Xbox

Galactic Reign - Win 8, Win RT, Win Phone

I don't see why Microsoft wouldn't want continue this trend down the road and include other, bigger name titles including Halo.

 

This is actually Gabe Newells biggest fear and the true reason he's blasting Win8. 

What about Halo 3 being found in Steam's registry? What about MS making games exclusive to Steam recently (like Age of Empires II HD)? I'm sure they care about the sales, because they could get quite a few on Steam. On Xbox Live (windows 8)...not so much. Did Halo 2 help at all? It got slammed for having Vista as a requirement by reviewers and by consumers so I really doubt they will repeat this mistake.

I don't think Gabe Newell has anything to fear at this point, because like I said, MS are still porting games to Steam.

Some of those points are rumors which may or may not materialize, much like this one.

Im just speaking what makes sense for Microsoft and their converging ecosystem strategy. It's all about ecosystems at this point and while standalone MS games are still sold on Steam, those days are slowly coming to an end. It won't happen tomorrow in even in 2-3 years but as Win8 adoption grows, they will move away from supporting any game store other than their own.

The real differentiator for the ecosystem battle is to release titles which span multiple platforms and devices and Microsoft can't do cross platform support on Steam, like they did for the 2 xbox live titles listed above.