Where is Microsoft headed from here on out?

[Mr Puggsly]

derpysquirtle64 said:

Mr Puggsly said:

I imagine they can do both. Stay in the X1 family and simplify support between Windows and Xbox. According to MS thats what UWP is doing.

Eitherway, making Xbox easier to support should be priority especially with so much content being developed for Windows but skipping Xbox. MS should meet them in the middle and make that same Windows content work on Xbox easily.

Unfortunately what you are talking about referring to games being developed for windows and not for Xbox are win32 games which is standard in current state. UWP won’t help there at all. It is still completely different version of the game. I think that at this point UWP helps only the other way around. It makes to port Xbox games to PC easier. Not PC games to Xbox. And Microsoft can’t force UWP to devs as well because they will risk to lose pc gamers crowd to other operating systems. PC gamers aren’t happy with uwp and I have a feeling that they will never be. Even if MS fixes all the shit they complain about. From what I read it looks like that the majority of PC gamers doesn’t like Microsoft as a company so they are not willing to support them at all. 

I think MS is gaining ground among PC gamers and their content has been doing well critically on Steam. I'm sure the Windows store has gone up in popularity as well. Hence, if they stay the course people will like MS more.

Eitherway, I still anticipate MS will close the gap on Windows software working on Xbox. In theory using software like virtual machine software could allow MS to curate PC games on Windows and its something they should take advantage of.