It's only been said in in more general way though. "There will be cross over with Windows 10 and Xbox One" ok fair enough ...So why announce it now, after 3 years of waiting and 2 delays, with 6 weeks to go? With Sea of Thieves and Halo Wars 2, we were told outright and not many eyelids were batted with those.
At least give it a years exclusivity FFS.
Because it's is diminishing the need of an Xbox One. Up until this announcement, if you wanted to play this, you needed an Xbox one. Now you don't. Presumably more Xboxs in homes is better for Microsoft Studios then less. Given we are 6 weeks before launch and no-one buys PC games anyway (and they will buy even less if it's given away for free) this isn't going to have much of an effect, but still it's not a benefit.
Don't get me wrong, being able to use the same Gamertag/Achievements and cross-buy in general is good and ....so pull this s*** with indies and 3rd party games. If you want to sell the world on Cross-buy, get Activision to sign off of this.
This might be positive in a vacuum, but Sony isn't doing this much (some PS4 games are on Vita, but with it dying off games like Gravity Rush 2 are now PS4 exclusive) and it'll be another year and a half before PS4 games start showing up on PSNow....of course, once that starts happening, this won't matter that much because Sony warriors will be in the same boat. But until then...
While I have seen the future, and know how this all ends this is curious behavior for the interim. If the PC market is so important to MS, why bother with a console? Or at least one with fixed hardware.
Because it's is diminishing the need of an Xbox One. Up until this announcement, if you wanted to play this, you needed an Xbox one. Now you don't. Presumably more Xboxs in homes is better for Microsoft Studios then less. Given we are 6 weeks before launch and no-one buys PC games anyway (and they will buy even less if it's given away for free) this isn't going to have much of an effect, but still it's not a benefit.
Yah, but Microsoft doesn't like that they can't control an open platform dominated by everyone else. So this is there only way of having some control over the platform, but this need to control the PC gaming sector is exactly why we gamers booted them off our platform in the first place.Yeah why limit it to Windows store? Microsoft has a way of doing things half right.
So its only going to be on the Windows Store.
Yeah, but on Windows. I mean that is the point after all to have a "killer app" on their service to attract gamers.Do they want to sell PC copies or not?
With the PC version being free when pre-ordering the digital Xbox One version, it is almost a no brainerGuess I missed the memo that this was confirmed for PC and that it was same day release. I've always loved the look of this game. Being a huge Remedy fanboy in general doesn't hurt as well. That said, with this game releasing so soon I wasn't sure I'd actually get to it right away, but with the possibility of building a new PC later this year I'll pre-order this. If I get to it on Xbox before the new PC, so be it, otherwise I'll be able to play it on the new PC.
Wait for the PC version and get a much cheaper key.Guess I missed the memo that this was confirmed for PC and that it was same day release. I've always loved the look of this game. Being a huge Remedy fanboy in general doesn't hurt as well. That said, with this game releasing so soon I wasn't sure I'd actually get to it right away, but with the possibility of building a new PC later this year I'll pre-order this. If I get to it on Xbox before the new PC, so be it, otherwise I'll be able to play it on the new PC.
I do that with most of my games! The other ones, I buy second hand!I will wait for a cheap foreign key then.
I do that with most of my games! The other ones, I buy second hand!
In Australia, the retail version is $60, the online version is $99... f*** that.