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Leadified on 22 January 2015
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torok said:
Leadified said:
There is plenty of room in the PC space for more competitors. Steam has the advantage of being a known name and known sales and a wide library of games. Along with big names advertising Steam such as Counter Strike and DOTA. I can see Xbox doing well on PC as long as Microsoft supports it but I do not see it wiping out Steam.


Plenty of room? Well, Steam get 95% of the sales, so it doesn't look like there is a lot of room. Steam is a know name, but so was Netscape. But the library can help to maintain users.

Counter Strike and DOTA are big names, but so is Halo, Gears, Forza and MS can moneyhat 3rd parties like Tomb Raider. They can be the dirtiest player in the game when they want!


Origin entered the market and they seem to be doing alright and there is also Desura and GOG. They're nowhere near as big as Steam but it looks like they can manage in their own way, so I can't see why MS wouldn't be able to do the same.

I also don't really see Halo, Gears or Forza coming to PC, I think they will remain on Xbox since those are pretty big name exculsives for the platform. Tomb Raider might be exculsive to their service or it might come out on Steam like Halo: Spartan Assault which started off on the Windows Store and then got released on Steam. We'll know by the end of the year I suppose.