Microsoft: “Xbox is No Longer a Console Ecosystem”

In a recent interview with Xbox Enthusiast, Jeff Rivait, the Xbox Platform Marketing Manager for Xbox Canada, said he believes that Play Anywhere raises the value of the Xbox brand. Rivait said that he believes that Xbox is no longer an exclusively console ecosystem, and that he believes the brand’s value will only increase when gamers can play their games across Window 10 and PC.

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http://xboxenthusiast.com/news/microsoft-xbox-is-no-longer-a-console-ecosystem/

so does that mean Now That Nintendo and Sony Get to now split up the Xbox territory on the game console war map, and divide the new expansion state between them? 🎮

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Errr..... no Xbox One is a console, the charts track sales of consoles. It's still a part of the console market regardless of cross-buy with PC.

well Microsoft. green Military. public relations liaison just stated it is no longer a Game console Eco system anymore..🙏

Microsoft. Must have been testing out a new stargate and sent the Xbox one through , an unlucky. Accident. Happened. And must have forced Accended the Xbox 🎮 One

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Stating that the Xbox is not a console-exclusive eco system is not saying that the Xbox One is not a console.

well since its no longer a exclusive console Eco system any more the Xbox 🎮 console as a platform Is now a multiplatform Eco system that is not a Exclusive console Eco system, thus take Console Eco system split it in half, and loose Exclusive Console Eco system=not s console..the math checks out..Microsoft Xbox headQuarters just confirmed the math to be correct its no longer seen as a console anymore..new orders. Straight from HQ..to abandon. posts no longer needed. Xbox has accended.🙌

Its still an exclusive system because the windows 10 store is more horror than you can imagine, its so bad games sometimes dont even start, also, no pc has a blue ray drive (well almost none) and the discs are not multi platform at all, and most console players still buy discs instead of downloads...

Not to mention they announced this so late it pissed many people off, they should have started with this when the Scorpio releases and announced it a year in advance, there are many players with a PC and Xbox that feel like they wasted money now (I don't own a Xbox myself, but I would have bought one for Gears 4) and they are losing sales because of this decision

I like the fact they are doing it, more gamers will be reached, I hate the way they announced it and push it in a store on windows 10 nobody wants.

Overall I feel like this might be a good thing but RIGHT NOW it seems like bad thing.

You don't really need an optical drive though. (Yes my PC has Blu-ray.)
They can simply just bundle a download code with every console disc purchase.

Microsoft should have partnered with Steam rather than that terrible Games For Windows Live/Universal Windows Platform.

They cannot do that because sites like G2A and Kinguin would allow people to re-sell that code, making a big mess.
If the code is also tied to the console, the Xbox would have a DRM wall people would hate, big mess again.

Microsoft didn't think about this, the way they announced it is horrible just no way around it. And yes you are right they should have partnered with Steam for the HTC Vive and the multi-windows platform, but they want to become "the new steam" with this platform.

When you merge 2 platforms the weaker platform will always pull the other one down and you seem to know how BAD windows 10 store is, so it will hurt Xbox in the end. Like i said, this might change in the future. But why not build a good platform on PC before you make a huge announcement like this

Why does having a free version of your game on PC hurt you if you purchased an Xbone game to begin with?

Imagine you have someone that owns a good PC, that can run all games better then Xbox One, and bought a Xbox One for exclusives......
Now imagine Microsoft would have announced this plan a year earlier, that man or lady would probly not have bought the Xbox.

Does it hurt? no
Should they have announced this earlier? yes

It will also hurt sales, they will sell at least one less Xbox One since I will play Gears of War 4 on my PC, well.. If its playable trough Windows Store.