Azzanation said:
Pemalite said:
I don't think gamers are supporting the Windows 10 ecosystem. Windows 10 store has had a fairly luke-warm reception in the PC gaming sphere on PC. (Halo Wars 2, Gears of War 4 etc'.) To me it just feels like Games for Windows Live! 2.0 and thus will never buy a game off it.
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It seems there arent many other ways to play Xbox games since alot or there recent releases are Win10/Xbox exclusive. Age of Empires DE and Sea of Thieves arent available on Steam and i cant see Age of Empires 4, Halo 6 or any of there future games being on both Stores.
So what happens if that remains the case? You will have to buy it on Win10 or Xbox? Or do you just boycott the game you like?
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Boycott.
If it's on Xbox I *might* buy it on there if I am genuinely interested, but only if it's Physical.
But for PC titles, Microsoft, just like Ubisoft can take a hike.
slab_of_bacon said: Buzzwords like "dead" and "investor" are cute. They are making money and I've noticed a few improvements for their console market via software. Along side a good piece of hardware... good software is what they need to focus on... take a page out of Nintendo's playbook.
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Microsoft is certainly making cash, but they do tend obfuscate revenue/profit from that side of the business though by conflating numbers with other business.
Azzanation said:
MS isnt a charity and if you havnt heard recently but Xbox is increasing revenue each year so its far from a charity service for MS.
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Well. They could go backwards at the start of the next generation if they don't pull their finger out.
Microsoft is quickly becoming an industry meme with the lack of games they are putting out.
I can't even remember the last Xbox game I actually bought, because... What's the point? I have them all on PC anyway.
Azzanation said:
Xbox is too important for them, it pushes Direct X and it pushes subs.
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Xbox pushing Direct X isn't that big of a pusher.
There is less than 40 million Xbox One consoles.
Guess how many hundreds of millions of PC's there are?
Azzanation said:
Again the live Ecosystem is too big on Xbox consoles to drop just to focus on PC gaming.
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Not to mention that Microsoft doesn't really have any PC market share anyway... And probably won't garner anything significant in the short or long term either. Steam is certainly the dominant force with GOG and Origin bringing up the rear.