Fahzgoolin
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From what I understand, software is where the money is at and M$ makes more money off of Windows OS than console sales, so it looks like they should keep up what they are doing.
Ah yes the "I don't like any of the exclusives on the xbox one so it doesn't have any exclusives" argument. And lol at sayiny MS is bad at making consoles so they should just bow out. Would you really say the 360 failed? It cant compete at world wide sales but it did pretty well in its own market. You sound like someone who quits at the first sign of adversity. Would you have said the same thing about Sony after they released the ps3? That was not a smartly designed console at all whereas the 360 was at the very least developer friendly. The ps3 eventually did well from price reductions and the nauseating cult like following it already had from the ps2 era. MS did pretty damn well with the OG xbox considering its competition and the 360 was no slouch. Anyway sorry I just get annoyed at stupid opinions.Why do we suppose that they have to make a console? For 3 gens they've failed to be the "best" player in the game, and they don't seem to be getting better at it. They can just exit that space like they exited MP3 players and let others who are better at it handle it. Focus on growing a robust PC platform instead.
As a PC gamer primarily, I don't really care if they exit the console space. Honestly, I don't even care if they exit the PC space because they don't have a lot of exclusives and what they do have doesn't appeal to me at all, and the Windows store is terrible (along with the UWP philosophy).
See above.PC. Since they are pretty bad st consoles.
Microsoft should go PC exclusive.
Bring back Microsoft Flight Simulator!
BTW, they are already having some relative success, there are about 240 games already supporting play anywhere released or in development
Gamers will absolutely not subscribe to UWP. It's too restrictive and goes against the core concepts of what a PC is. If I can't tinker with MY software, if I have to exist in a walled garden, I want no part of it.
MS needs to focus on making the Scorpio platform an even playing field. Either allow pc games to be played on the Scorpio system or keep games exclusive to the system. It doesn't make sense to support the pc market on the backs of loyal xbox live customers when they don't really get anything in return. If the Scorpio platform is the place where you can play your next gen 4k games, your Xbox One games, your 360 games and your PC games. Then that will make the platform very attractive! Besides it would be glorious to see games that skipped the Xbox One for the pc & ps4 running better on the Scorpio!!! Sting!
MS needs to focus on making the Scorpio platform an even playing field. Either allow pc games to be played on the Scorpio system or keep games exclusive to the system. It doesn't make sense to support the pc market on the backs of loyal xbox live customers when they don't really get anything in return. If the Scorpio platform is the place where you can play your next gen 4k games, your Xbox One games, your 360 games and your PC games. Then that will make the platform very attractive! Besides it would be glorious to see games that skipped the Xbox One for the pc & ps4 running better on the Scorpio!!! Sting!
That doesn't explain them doubling down on hardware in almost all forms over the last couple of years. Things change.
This ^^ Drop the box and put all gaming efforts into the PC.I think they should drop consoles and focus more on PC, but they would hurt too many fans like that.
But how can you avoid the rise of UWP, where Microsoft literary provides no Vulkan, Win32 and also no other store on ARM, no Linux especially considering the fact that ARM is likely to replace X86 in the minstream market. Whatever happens in the mainstream market, developers will have to follow.
X86 emulation on ARM and having ARM replace X86 in the market, is a good thing for competition, but it rots the open market from the inside.
This I agree with, and would help people buy Xbox consoles more as well.console exclusivity
I think the only people who are against their PC initiative are those who are invested in console wars. Otherwise, why else would you be against it? It's not taking away from their console market, and if it is, the numbers must be insignificant and/or worth the trade-off because it gives them a better public image, brings more business to their ecosystem, etc.
To be honest I wish they'd continue to ignore the pc so developers started slowly moving to SteamOS and Vulkan. I have very little experience of Linux but I wish I could move over to it. Years of pushing their pc development teams to make console games then closing them when they failed to transition well, staying on DX11 for far too long, saying over and over that pc gaming is important to them and they'll properly support it this year, honest guv'nor, then giving us GFWL.
Sea of Thieves is the only game I have a vague interest in, but I am not using their shoddy excuse of a store front to get it.
So I'm happy for the gamers who are interested in some of the games they'll be bringing over and who like the cross-play stuff, but I'd rather they left pc gaming alone entirely.
Amount of people who buyed those games are relatively small to game market anyway?It's irrelevant. The amount of people who can feasibly run a game like Gears of War 4 or Forza Horizon 3 on their PC is relatively small. The lack of Xbox console exclusivity isn't going to hurt their hardware sales that much, especially when most prospective owners will more than likely pick up an Xbox for those games rather than build an expensive PC.