Sigh.
This is why I miss Mattrick. He would have convinced Sam Lake to sell Remedy for $0.35 to MS, quadruple in size and cloned 6 others to write the scripts for Scalebound, Gears 4, Halo 6 and others.
Phils done good with back compat...thanks to the power of the cloud, it need not be an option in the future, but a standard and that keeps me warm at night, but stuff like this....is a step back.
Just rebrand PC's as "upgradeable" Xbox Ones...instant sales victory, cut this cross-buy version malarky.
Is this crapgamer? Lol. Wow, just wow, Mattrick was the worst for the Xbox brand. He ruined the brand with his short sightedness. Mattrick wouldn't have convinced Sam Lake of s*** because Mattrick would be more worried about tv and sports than games. He would be more worried about garbageware for Kinect.
Also, the studios that Mattrick opened were s*** tier Kinect studios and totally wasting the talent of Rare with Kinect garbage and avatar crap.
If Mattrick was still in charge the Xbox brand would be dying.
Backwards comp has nothing to do with the cloud lol.
Why should they stop with cross buy? The games are going to be sold in Microsofts Win 10 store. They are trying to beef up their store as they unify their platform across all device types.
True fact. Hardly anyone buys the PC version of anything, which is why this is all the more a head scratcher. This will affect XBO sales 1% and increase W10 adoption 3%....it's already over 200M platforms. Windows doesn't really need XBO exclusives to dominate. It's hardly worth the effort.
Again, extremely short sighted. This is about leveraging the Windows 10 App Store. It's about heading towards their future of one platform across all device types. I'm talking about a future where you can stream your Xbox games to a device like your cell phone from the cloud. Your saves are in the cloud and you can pick up and play where you left off on your phone, tablet, laptop, PC, Xbox branded hardware and Hololens. That is what Microsoft wants. That is what they are doing. It's very much worth the effort for Microsoft for their vision.
This is true, but there are better ways this could have been handled. MS should be pushing the console they designed and manufacture, it is their responsibility to manage content for it.
It is not Microsoft responsibility to manage game content for PCs because they make the definite PC operating system, especially at the cost of the former.
For every one of these, we need 10 PC exclusives in return (triple A or 50 indies).
Sadly, there aren't 10 PC exclusives.
They have been doing an extremely great job managing content for the Xbox one since Mattrick ran away. They have been bringing a ton of new games down the pipeline.
As stated above, it is Microsoft's job to manage game content for PC in order to succeed in their future vision. People forget that the Windows 10 app store is coming down the pipeline for the Xbox One also. They are trying to beef up the store in order to attract indie devs/pubs to release their games there. If the win 10 store is unified across all platforms, imagine this. We know Street Fighter 5 isn't seeing the light of day on the Xbox one. What if, Microsoft's convinces Capcom to release Street Fighter in the Win 10 Store, the very same App Store that the Xbox one will use because of Microsoft's unified store vision. Guess what, you are playing street fighter on Xbox branded hardware even though it is suppose to be a PlayStation console exclusive.
Your statement about PC not having 10 exclusives is simply incorrect and really, an ignorant statement.
