Dead Rising 3 is Coming to Steam

[Dr.Henry_Killinger]

Mr Puggsly said:

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.

The issue is MS isn't really benefting from having games on Windows. This is evident by MS' attempt at Games for Windows Live.

MS is not porting games to Windows. They are allowing them to be published to Windows, probably because they did not pay for full exclusivity. Steam is the vendor not MS, they don't make royalties of off games on Windows in contrast to games on Xbox. The 360, had the multiplat advantage and was the dominant console in the US, the XB1 has neither of those things. It has to compete on exclusives, having them avaliable on PC lessens the value of the console.

Steam is cross-platform, it sure as hell isn't helping MS more than its really helping itself and PC Gaming was more on Windows alone before Steam; i.e Steam has caused gaming to proliferate on Linux and Mac as well.

Windows is not helping Xbox, more or less.

Exclusivity to Windows platform literally means nothing, most PC gamer will agree, that like saying my car exclusively uses energy to run.