| Dr.Henry_Killinger said: I can say with 99% certantity that Gaming is not a significant factor in the sale of MS's OSes. If its just DR3, it probably won't matter, if they do it with more games it will have an impact on Xbox, because its exclusive library will shrink, since PS4 has the multiplat advantage, XB1's exclusive library is of paramount importance. Hell, DR3 is being sold on Steam, GFWL is dead, Fable 3 was the last game I played on it Its not positive at all, Steam gets the distribution money, and those sales reduce how many copies MS sells, "Gaming" on Windows basically has nothing to do with Xbox, and little to do with Microsoft, the OS is about as involved as VGChartz is with the Ads on the site. I doubt MS is even purposely doing this, which means that MS is not spending enough on complete exclusivity. |
Most people using Windows aren't doing it for gaming. Regardless, many millions of people game on Windows. That's definitely not an audience MS wants to ignore and that's why we're seeing increased support and encouraging gamers to stay on Windows.
Its pretty much a guarantee MS will be porting more games and they'll be available on Steam. It impact will have little impact, just like 360 ports had little if any impact.
It doesn't matter if Steam gets money, they deserve it. Steam single handedly revitalized gaming on Windows. Now MS needs to make moves to discourage gamers from moving away from Windows.
If MS pays less for exclusives by allowing publishers to put them Windows, they're smart to do that. Especially if they don't allow those games on any other OS but Windows.
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