| Dr.Henry_Killinger said: 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. |
GFW was a failure because it was a half ass effort. MS indeed benefits from having games on Windows, it encourages millions and millions of people to stick with Windows. You're downplaying how large the PC gaming community is.
Steam is cross platform, but the support for other platforms is abysmal compared to Windows. That discourages gamers from moving away from Windows.
Windows has little impact if any on Xbox, which is why MS allows ports on Windows.
Exclusivity to Windows discourages gamers from moving away from Windows.
Here's the situation. You're looking for a negative spin and I'll continue to respond by pointing out Windows ports has little impact on consoles. We can keep going in circles if you want.
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