| thismeintiel said: The XBO's install base really isn't worth it for any company to go full exclusive on it. Trust me, if XBox was in a better situation, MS wouldn't be porting all their games to PC. |
That would make no difference. The industry is always about moving forward not backwards. Corps go where the money is. Even if the XB1 was the top selling platform, MS would be going down this route regardless. They wouldn't have designed the Windows UWP system otherwise. Your post just sounds premature. Its a business not a trophy league.
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twintail said: So what was Titanfall, Rise of the TB, and buying out some studios that make multiplatform games? |
Are we talking years ago or now? Because I am talking about now. What timed exclusive has MS locked away, instead they have put more 1st party IPs on other platforms, games like Hellblade, Cuphead and Halo MCC just to name afew. Has Nintendo or Sony done that lately?
| Cerebralbore101 said: "In IT, a platform is any hardware or software used to host an application or service. An application platform, for example, consists of hardware, an operating system and coordinating programs that use the instruction set for a particular processor or microprocessor. In this case, the platform creates a foundation that ensures object code will execute successfully." You're just cherry picking a snippet of a single definition instead of looking at the overall consensus. Or the rest of the definition for that matter. Software that is running on hardware can be a platform in the same sense that a wheel on a car is a car. But only when paired up with the rest of the working parts. Remove a wheel from a car, and you've just got a wheel. It's no longer a car by itself. Remove the software from the hardware of a platform and you've just got software. It's no longer a platform by itself. |
Cherry picking? More like simplifying it for you. Steam operates on a OS and requires Hardware to run. Which is what makes launchers like Steam a Platform. You cannot run it on your fridge, it requires technology that its programmed for. eg Windows/MacOS etc.
Steam, EGS, Win10 Store etc are platforms to me.
Last edited by Azzanation - on 15 April 2019
