| Mr Puggsly said: Your common sense ignores some of the best selling 8th gen games have PC ports. So the impact of PC ports (especially late ports) is probably negligible. The best way to boost X1 sales is having exclusives not available on Sony platforms and being competitive with price. MS supports Steam, they have numerous games on the service. Fable Anniversary for example is coming to Steam. MS didn't publish Alan Wake for PC, but Remedy still had to get permission from MS to do the port. It could be a similar situation with DR3. |
Alight, let me explain this to you in layman terms. Bob is a PC gamer. Bob wants to play DR3. If Bob wants to play it he is going to have to go and buy an X1. But wait! DR3 is now on PC. Bob no longer needs an X1.
MS benefit a lot more from people buying games within their own Xbox ecosystem than they do from PC. Every X1 game that's available on PC gives those PC gamers one less reason to go out and buy an X1.
Again, i never said it would have a huge impact or even be particularly meaningful, but the X1's sales are so poor right now that it really needs every sale it can get, including Bob the PC gamer. A game also being on PC doesn't stop it having any positive effect on the X1, but it does cut out a lot of potential customers.
