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Azzanation on 27 April 2018
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Pemalite said:
Azzanation said:

It seems there arent many other ways to play Xbox games since alot or there recent releases are Win10/Xbox exclusive. Age of Empires DE and Sea of Thieves arent available on Steam and i cant see  Age of Empires 4, Halo 6 or any of there future games being on both Stores. 

So what happens if that remains the case? You will have to buy it on Win10 or Xbox? Or do you just boycott the game you like?

Boycott.
If it's on Xbox I *might* buy it on there if I am genuinely interested, but only if it's Physical.
But for PC titles, Microsoft, just like Ubisoft can take hike

 

Thats pretty much the way its headed. I predict majority of MS titles being Win10/Xbox Exclusive going forward much like it is now.

  

Azzanation said:

MS isnt a charity and if you havnt heard recently but Xbox is increasing revenue each year so its far from a charity service for MS.

 

Well. They could go backwards at the start of the next generation if they don't pull their finger out.
Microsoft is quickly becoming an industry meme with the lack of games they are putting out.

I can't even remember the last Xbox game I actually bought, because... What's the point? I have them all on PC anyway.

 

Thats all under your opinion, what doesnt work for you doesnt mean it doesnt work for others. If you havnt notice recently PC/Xbox can co exist with eachother judging from MSs direction.

 

Azzanation said:

Xbox is too important for them, it pushes Direct X and it pushes subs.

Xbox pushing Direct X isn't that big of a pusher.
There is less than 40 million Xbox One consoles.

Guess how many hundreds of millions of PC's there are?

 

Umm no it doesnt work like that. Without Xbox PC games wont bother using DX. Xbox needs to exist to help promote devs into using it. The whole reason Xbox exists is because of that reason. Its called the Direct Xbox for a reason and incase you think i am making this up, look up the history of Xbox. Xbox isnt there to smash records, its there to support there API and software.

  

Azzanation said:

Again the live Ecosystem is too big on Xbox consoles to drop just to focus on PC gaming.

Not to mention that Microsoft doesn't really have any PC market share anyway... And probably won't garner anything significant in the short or long term either. Steam is certainly the dominant force with GOG and Origin bringing up the rear.

Again its not suppose to be the leading though i am sure they would love it to be. The whole point of Win10 Store is to promote Windows 10. You cannot play majority of Xbox games without owning Windows 10, thats there killer app against Apple and Linux users. Yes even Steam has a bunch of Windows only games that cannot be played on rival OS. Thats MS aim.

 

Forgive me, i am writing this on my Mobile phone, ill clean it all up when im home from work.

Last edited by Azzanation - on 28 April 2018