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KLAMarine on 04 July 2017
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Jon-Erich said:
KLAMarine said:

I often come across the complaint that many XBox 1 games that would have otherwise been exclusives are also put on PC thus rendering them non-exclusives and I'm wondering why people complain?

Does a game being available on more than one platform not make it more readily available to people thus benefiting the consumer? Is the abilty to play a game on more than one configuration not a good thing? PS4 and Switch exclusives can only be played on their respective platforms but with XBox1/PC, you have more choice.

Online gaming on PC is free last I checked so you don't even need to pay a subscription fee to play these games online. Microsoft undermines their own efforts to charge for online multiplayer by making their otherwise-XBox 1 exclusive games also available on PC.

Already got a gaming PC? Great! No need to buy an XBox 1 and we the consumers win but I cannot recall any time wherein Microsoft has received rightful praise for their pro-consumer policy of making their software available on XBox 1 AND PC rather than just locking their software to one box.

 

What's the deal with people complaining instead of praising?

Well let's put it this way. If you're someone who bought an Xbox One on launch day for $500 and it turns out that you could have simply played those games on a PC that may have already had, it would make your Xbox feel like a huge paper weight. Remember that Microsoft did not start this whole cross platform thing until quite sometime after Xbox One's launch.

This is certainly an unfortunate circumstance but does this render the games currently on the XBox 1 unplayable? Killer Instinct comes to PC some time after its release on X1 and yet it's still perfectly playable on the X1. Additionally, KI is a 'play anywhere' title if I understand things correctly.

If the console now feels like a paperweight, time to sell it and look towards a future where you won't need to buy a Microsoft console ever again if PC gaming will always be preferrable over console gaming.

Normchacho said:
That's kind of missing the point. It's not that Microsoft's exclusives are on too many platforms, it's that there just simply aren't enough of them that are of any real quality. They were putting out a good number of high quality games then it wouldn't be a big deal, but they just aren't.

With all due respect, I believe it is you who has missed the point of my original post as I was not criticizing criticism of the quality of Microsoft software.