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Snoopy on 22 January 2017
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NATO said:
Snoopy said:

xbox is just like the pc but closed off. They can easily scale the games just like they do with pc games. Also, I would argue xbox live being better than competitiors is a huge plus.

developing for the xbox and developing for the pc aren't the same at all.
it's two fixed platforms, so optimizations and fine tuning has to be made for each, where as for pc you can leave those optimizations and tuning to the end user by exposing advanced video options.

Since it's a console, they *have* to do extensive testing and optimization for both, to get the best out of each, that takes time, that takes money.
You can say that it doesn't till you're blue in the face, but it does.

No, PC is an open platform. Both xbox and pc use the same api (directx 12) and use the same architecture. This is part of the reason why UWP and play anywhere is a thing.Not to mention we are seeing a lot of pc games ported on xbox like city skyline, path of exiles, elite dangerous,ect. Also, there is some people speculating that scorpio will be litterally a closed off PC that is going to run the window store games and xbox one compatability will work just like xbox one compatability with 360 games.