“When we started the project we weren’t aware of Windows 10,” says a source. “We were going to ship on Xbox One initially and then we wanted to come out on PC at a later point, most likely though Steam. But we got burnt quite badly.” “Without Steam, without other platforms, it was just painful,” says another.

“The Windows Store is a giant disaster. It’s on fire. 98% of PC copies of Rise of the Tomb Raider, a flagship Windows 10 game, were bought on Steam. The same is true for Minecraft. That hurt us, too. The store’s a mess; the number of people who couldn’t even install the game from the Microsoft store was… significant.”

"Windows 10 installs, too, were nowhere near what Microsoft had planned...“There are supposed to be 2x as many Xboxes out there as there are right now. There are supposed to be 2x as many Windows 10 installs as there currently are."

http://www.kotaku.co.uk/2016/06/09/how-fable-legends-took-down-lionhead

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=206194041&postcount=1

~14K on W10? 😵

I was going to make a thread focusing on the other more juicy parts of the same article

Damn you ;(

And that is what happens when you try to brute-force your way into the PC market. The market is burned with W10, and gamers have wayyyyyyy more options to get games (Steam, GoG, Origin, directly from the devs, humble bundle, piracy...).

Don't all windows 10 games have issues? Borderless windows, no freesync/gsync support, no sli/crossfire support, overall horrible optimization, etc

IMHO they messed up a long time ago when they went into consoles and stopped messing with PC. They should have kind of stayed in there lane that way Steam would probably not be the force it is now. Now they are in a position with a home console that isnt doing as well as they want and a PC storefront that seems to be doing worse

But.... So much potential right? I mean they put their store icon on everyone's Windows 10 taskbar right? Just have to get people to click on that damn icon.

The only surprise here would be if someone is actually surprised by this news.

Also, Rise of the Tomb Raider was a mess on Windows 10. There was no SLI/Xfire support, VSync was always on and it ran on a borderless fullscreen mode.

It never, ever, had a chance to sell well.

Typical Microsoft. Unless they are trojan horsing their product into your home/office, they don't know what they're doing, and get their ass handed to them in the open market. Everybody saw this coming.

win10 is a thing and it's new and you don't overthrow the establishment overnight (ussually).

the question is does MS have the determination to stick with it for the long haul? MS has a long history of abandoning ship if something isn't working out pretty much right away.