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FloatingWaffles on 13 August 2015
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Puppyroach said:
FloatingWaffles said:

It's nice to see Microsoft is supporting PC more but the problem is that now there are always people in every single Xbox One exclusive video,thread,etc that say they hope it comes to PC or port beg for it to come to PC just because they don't want to buy an Xbox One.

I could see Microsoft putting games that probably won't boost hardware as much like Halo Wars 2, Fable Legends, etc on PC but I doubt they'll put the big hitter console sellers like Halo 5, Quantum Break, Scalebound, etc on PC because they need those to stay exclusive to give people a reason to buy the Xbox One.

If they just put every first party game of theirs on PC then they get rid of any reason for anyone to buy an Xbox One, so they need to keep the big hitter console sellers exclusive to the Xbox One.

But you play on console because you prefer to play on console, not because of the hardware specific exclusives. These games will remain exclusive to XBox, but MS is growing that community to be larger than anything Sony or Nintendo can match. You will not be able to play them on Steam, or Playstation or Nintendo. And the XBox gaming brand has consisted of Console+PC+Smartphone+Tablet for several years now, so this is just the next natural step.

This makes absolutely no sense. What is the point of there even being consoles without there being exclusives, exclusives are what GET people to buy a system because that is the only system you can play them on.

It's not about "Oh I prefer to play on console" it's about buying the console to get what you can only get on it, and if the games are on PC then that defeats any reason to even buy an Xbox One. 

It does not matter if you can't play them on Steam, Playstation, or Nintendo, you can still play them on something OTHER than an Xbox One which means they are not truly exclusive. 

Which is why Microsoft needs to keep a lot of them FULLY exclusive to the Xbox One, or else people will just look and say "Why should I pay $350 for this console when I can just play the "exclusives" it has on PC?".

Like I said, I can see some of the lesser system-seller games that probably won't boost that much hardware like Fable Legends, Halo Wars 2, etc going to PC, but they need to keep the big system seller games like Halo, Quantum Break, Scalebound, etc FULLY exclusive in order to keep giving reasons for people to buy an Xbox One.