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First of, the writer is mistaken that MS presence in the gaming market began with original Xbox, we all know it started WAY before. And second of all; how can it be a negative that games that I play on X1 becomes available on PC with cross platform play with a unified OS? If I wanted to game on PC I would but I have a console because of the convenience and the feel I get from playing on console. It has nothing to do with PC.



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This article fails to realize that PC gaming isn't as huge as console gaming minus the indies and f2p games. That is why games show up late on PC or broken on the PC all the time.



The only people it could negatively affect are those who buy gaming PCs as a primary. The average console gamer won't have a rig that can pull it off. Now playing online with cross play is a major plus. Loved that with Final Fantasy 14. The only people who can make a big deal about this are the list war junkies from the two fanboy camps (which again most of them can't even play on PC).



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CGI-Quality said:
Snoopy said:
This article fails to realize that PC gaming isn't as huge as console gaming minus the indies and f2p games. That is why games show up late on PC or broken on the PC all the time.

So what about the broken games that show up on consoles? What's to blame there?

OT: The overall sentiment of Xbox games showing up on PC (being harmful) - I can agree with. It definitely will keep the console's library lower, for me, than any previous Xbox.

 

Bad developers, I'm sure you couldve answered that one. 



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I have a gaming pc and a ps4 and there's really no incentive to buy an Xbox 1 and pay for yet another online subscription when I can play 90% of games on my 2 machines



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So... how exactly is Xbox One Games Going To PC Doing More Harm Than Good?

The whole article fails to answer that question.

Which aspects ARE actually harmful (instead of which aspects COULD BE harmful)?
How are the harmful and the good things weighted?
Are the cons bigger / more important than the pros?
Ain't that really subjective and mainly depends on the individual perspective?



ArchangelMadzz said:
I have a gaming pc and a ps4 and there's really no incentive to buy an Xbox 1 and pay for yet another online subscription when I can play 90% of games on my 2 machines

And I actually think MS are perfectly happy with that as long as you buy their games :).





CGI-Quality said:
ArchangelMadzz said:
CGI-Quality said:

So what about the broken games that show up on consoles? What's to blame there?

OT: The overall sentiment of Xbox games showing up on PC (being harmful) - I can agree with. It definitely will keep the console's library lower, for me, than any previous Xbox.

 

Bad developers, I'm sure you couldve answered that one. 

The answer isn't always bad developers, but that was besides my point.  I'd really like to hear the reasoning behind this. The way I see it, games that are broken at release has very little to do with the console world being "so much bigger." Otherwise, said games wouldn't (and, of course,  shouldn't) ever launch under those conditions.

 

Okay fine a proper answer then:

 

Console games coming out broken usually means rushed or broken management. Publisher pressure to meet a release date regardless of quality. Other reasons could be lack of money to properly QA or no fuck given (thps5) usually when the console version is fucked the pc version is fucked.

 

But we have many situations where the console version runs much better or runs as expected compared to the pc version. Ac Unity was bad all around but was much better on console. Arkham knight is another, watch dogs, usually there's a problem it's not a pc focused game like project cars, witcher series, crisis, and far cry. 

 

The AAA market is much smaller on PC than it is on console (no matter how much the master race wants to deny citing indie/f2p revenue) due to people not being able to run it, or pirating or just not interested. So publishers then make that worse but not putting as much attention on the PC versions. Only really now has COD had good PC ports but I don't know if advanced warfare supports sli/crossfire yet.

 

Hope that's an alright explanation. :)



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