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S.T.A.G.E. on 23 January 2015

This poses zero threat to Steam. Steam fully supports gamers on PC. Xbox supports Xbox streaming on PC (Key point: You still have to have an Xbox for the true Xbox experience on PC). Its streaming for your console.Also, games like Fable aren't top tier so MS is willing and able to throw PC a bone so they wont be seen as sellouts to the PC realm, while taking in extra cash at the same time. Steam is the reason for PC gamings relevance vs consoles post millenia. Nothing Microsoft does will ever change that. This is just Microsoft giving options no different than Sony with the Vita. When their main competition does someting, they do it too.



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Xenostar on 23 January 2015
torok said:
Xenostar said:
Yeah i can see them lining up to ditch there $1000's game collection to switch to a portal that allows them to buy X1 games and record there steam library that they just ditched.


And if games are cheaper at MS store? You don't have to throw your Steam games away, but maybe you won't buy new ones there simply because MS has better pricing options.

And if some newer games are MS store exclusives?


Did they have better pricing options last time, or did the PC community shun there portal and it died a slow death?

 

But hay im all for competition and i aint no steam fan, i much prefer to buy direct from the developer if i can, you want games as cheap as possible, best way to do that is not have these middle men taking there 30% cut. 



walterbates on 23 January 2015
S.T.A.G.E. said:
This poses zero threat to Steam. Steam fully support gamers on PC. Xbox supports Xbox streaming on PC (Key point: You still have to have an Xbox for the true Xbox experience on PC). Its streaming for your console.Also, games like Fable aren't top tier so MS is willing and able to throw PC a bone so they wont be seen as sellouts to the PC realm, while taking in extra cash at the same time.


And all this will make Sony nervous?



torok on 23 January 2015
V-r0cK said:
No chance, the Steam community is too great with tons of free games and the amazing Steam deals can't be beat. Plus Half-Life.


Half-Life? We don't see a new one in a long, long time.



Bet with jetforcejiminy: PS4 will pass the Wii lifetime numbers.

Landguy on 23 January 2015
generic-user-1 said:
torok said:
Xenostar said:
Yeah i can see them lining up to ditch there $1000's game collection to switch to a portal that allows them to buy X1 games and record there steam library that they just ditched.


And if games are cheaper at MS store? You don't have to throw your Steam games away, but maybe you won't buy new ones there simply because MS has better pricing options.

And if some newer games are MS store exclusives?


they musst be realy cheap to beat steam. and they have to do something for the publishers to get them exklusiv on pc. and AAA titles arent as important on pc...

I guess I don't get theses comments that say"they will have a hard time beating Steams prices".  Do any of you think that Valve/Steam owns these games?  Do you think that they have never ending distribution deals for them?

M$ could open a store tomorrow and probably put 75%+ of the same games that are on Steam into it's store, + any and all of the titles that they own while removing those from the Steam store.  M$ can make the same deals that Steam does with these developers to bundle games.

Will M$ do any of this?  Probably not today, as again they don't have the install base with Win10 to even bother.  But, 2-4 years down the line they will and in the meantime, they can slowly start to work the back channels to have these deals in place when they are ready.



It is near the end of the end....

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V-r0cK on 23 January 2015
torok said:
V-r0cK said:
No chance, the Steam community is too great with tons of free games and the amazing Steam deals can't be beat. Plus Half-Life.


Half-Life? We don't see a new one in a long, long time.

Hey! Let me believe it that a sequel can still be in the works!! xD



S.T.A.G.E. on 23 January 2015
walterbates said:
S.T.A.G.E. said:
This poses zero threat to Steam. Steam fully support gamers on PC. Xbox supports Xbox streaming on PC (Key point: You still have to have an Xbox for the true Xbox experience on PC). Its streaming for your console.Also, games like Fable aren't top tier so MS is willing and able to throw PC a bone so they wont be seen as sellouts to the PC realm, while taking in extra cash at the same time.


And all this will make Sony nervous?


If it is a success Sony will have to respond or just do their own thing. If what Microsoft does changes gaming then Sony will be compelled to follow. Sony created their own  cross-play service on a secondary product and Microsoft did the same. This wont affect Sony in the slightest. Sony could do the exact same thing.



Wildcard36qs on 23 January 2015

You need games to be a threat to Steam. XBOX has none...



generic-user-1 on 23 January 2015
Landguy said:
generic-user-1 said:
torok said:
Xenostar said:
Yeah i can see them lining up to ditch there $1000's game collection to switch to a portal that allows them to buy X1 games and record there steam library that they just ditched.


And if games are cheaper at MS store? You don't have to throw your Steam games away, but maybe you won't buy new ones there simply because MS has better pricing options.

And if some newer games are MS store exclusives?


they musst be realy cheap to beat steam. and they have to do something for the publishers to get them exklusiv on pc. and AAA titles arent as important on pc...

I guess I don't get theses comments that say"they will have a hard time beating Steams prices".  Do any of you think that Valve/Steam owns these games?  Do you think that they have never ending distribution deals for them?

M$ could open a store tomorrow and probably put 75%+ of the same games that are on Steam into it's store, + any and all of the titles that they own while removing those from the Steam store.  M$ can make the same deals that Steam does with these developers to bundle games.

Will M$ do any of this?  Probably not today, as again they don't have the install base with Win10 to even bother.  But, 2-4 years down the line they will and in the meantime, they can slowly start to work the back channels to have these deals in place when they are ready.



sure, they will get all the games that steam has, but that doesnt matter, they showed with the xbox brand that they arent willing to make big sales. and they would get a lot of problems with xbone users... if they want to match the prices for steam, they will have much higher prices on xbone than on xboxapp...

torok on 23 January 2015
V-r0cK said:
 

Hey! Let me believe it that a sequel can still be in the works!! xD


I believe in The Last Guardian, so hope is all left to us. But come on, Duke Nukem Forever did happened!



Bet with jetforcejiminy: PS4 will pass the Wii lifetime numbers.