How is this remotely some purely theoretical possibility, rather than an actual accusation of current behavior?
I know it is a long topic, but the only unattributed baseless claim he makes is that MS are doing this intentionally and maliciously as a power play.
- MS clearly would love to have the PC as a closed platform they are in sole control of, I don't think anyone would deny that.
- Win32 has been termed as "legacy desktop" since Windows 8, a term which has specific meaning.
- UWA has features available exclusively to it that Win32 does not
- Recent patches have broken certain Win32 features
These are things that have happened.
Whether they are deliberate attempts to shut down the PC as an open platform, or whether it is even possible to do so are what is contended.
It still makes no sense then that they would be fully behind releasing their brand new IP on a platform that they're secretly wanting to hinder in order to make theirs look better. Let alone using Win32, which apparently they're also wanting to make obsolete.
It's a direct contradiction is all I'm saying, and I would be very very interested to hear a response from Tim regarding it.
I mean, you would have to ask him that yourself.
Having said that, if there
are sinister plans afoot to patch out 'legacy desktop support' into a Pro only feature in 2 years time, why wouldn't you sell all those games as Win32s now then get the double dippers for the UWAs in 2 years time?
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I mean, Sony basically did that offering deep discount sales on PS3 titles knowing full well they'd be unplayable on PS4 - if you're rendering a swathe of titles unusable soon anyway, why not take those free revenues now?