Xbox Boss Confirms More Steam Releases Coming, Discusses PC Struggles

Sometimes it's a better business strategy to just thrown in the towel and admit defeat. Windows 10 was a failure. You can admit that, and stop with the "Oh yeah? Well 100 million people installed it!". Yeah, I know, I installed it, and then I uninstalled it since it was junk. They have the numbers, which is why they won't give "active users", since it's much much lower. So Microsoft, just give it up. Release your games on Steam only and you get money, lots of money.

Nutshell, we're not going to release our exclusive on a competing platform, for obvious reasons. Come on now, the way the UWP is if they released their exclusives on Steam UWP would die that very day. I am not a fan of steam but MS are pure suits, regardless of Phil intentions, he literally has to bow to the suits above, when they wanted to monetize gaming and strip users of their consumer rights they built Xbox One and set up it's original outlay, who the hell did you think was a part of that Phil and everyone else still under Xbox brand.

No Phil is just another personality in jeans and a blazer, he's not Steve Jobs and can come out talking as if he owns the company. MS are keen on turning everything into a service, so if you think Xbox is not part of that idea then you are sorely mistaken. MS released W10 but it's digital only, there are no physical discs versions of that, coupe of years ago they started Office 365 as a service, sounds good and convenient but really now, you're paying for word processing per year. Only time will tell before they come at you with an all digital solution and glittery words about convenience. A world where you don't own anything and rent everything, no thanks that is no world I'd like to live in. Rich get richer and the middle class and lower get taken for a ride their entire lives.

I'm still baffled with the whole Xbox One S, what's the point of that announcement if 18 months later it will be obsolete? Waste of resources? Or was this the intended design of the Xbox One but manufacturing was rushed and left us with the mighty 80's looking VCR.. Was there any real reason for the Xbox One redesign at all? It runs quiet and everyone who has one has no actual complaints, you don't carry it anywhere so the size wasn't really a complaint beyond looking hulking next to a PS4. 4K upscaling sounds good but if the original output isn't detailed enough it's going to look like crap, HDR lighting sounds great, but developers will have to program that in after the fact so only games supporting that will be a few MS titles, 3rd party players probably won't add it if it's not necessarily going to increase margins, extra effort for no return is a waste.

MS screwed up by putting exclusives on PC because face it they have no face in PC gaming and what they did have Pc players hate with a passion, new and curious Pc players won't know of the madness of GFWL and the theft of service once it went down your games went down with it. Far be it from me to trust a company that doesn't seem to care enough about gaming to talk so smug about gaming and for gamers. Prior to launch it was TV this, locked in digital distribution that and once they started getting outsold handily then came the change of heart, well apparent change but look UWP shows up with the same digital only scheme as Xbox One original plans, anyone find a physical release for any W10 exclusive game around? MS is also good at dropping support for OS's and forcing you to move up to the next one whether you like it or not.

Don't trust Sony either but so far they aren't pushing the BS yet, but I'll be out of there real quick. Gaming is starting to look like a money tree to many publishers and maximizing their intake by any means possible is their mantra, just like at Xbox One reveal EA was all over that anti consumer idea with gusto, so it's only a matter of time. It's hard to take these guys seriously as they deny things and say they aren't giving away their exclusives to Pc, then lo and behold they did just that and to make it look enticing, if you bought the Xbox version you automatically get the PC one for free, so you're giving me a copy of the Xbox One game that simply runs on the PC at a higher resolution. Wonder why those UWP games come with so many issues, they are literally repackaged Xbox One games. They are probably being emulated which is why requirements are obscenely high to get similar Xbox One results.

Both major consoles are already PCs; moving the Xbox platform to fully embrace "being a PC" w/Win10, native DirectX, shared clients, etc. is the right move. Actually makes life WAY easier for developers, since all their development is essentially variations of the same platform.

There was a dark period in the mid-2000s where people proclaimed the imminent death of PC gaming, and it's absolutely true that Valve and Steam played an integral role in helping the PC gaming industry weather the storm and re-surface stronger than ever.

I'll say it again...Valve is where is today because nearly all the players in PC space walked away from the platform...including MS.

I love Phil Spencer and what he is doing for pc gaming and Windows 10. So excited for Microsoft games on Steam!

He's right about something valve won't hurt if they don't release a game on steam, it's them that will hurt by cutting their sales. I usually don't buy games not on steam, I just love steam's convenience.

Say what you want about MS, I think Phil Spencer's the right guy for the Xbox division. They just need to work on their E3 presentations and do a bit like Sony did. I like their Play Anywhere thing, though. I didn't expect so many games would come to PC. Even if I think Sony's future lineup seems better, I think it's great move by MS.

You should consider GOG.com. It's in my opinion a much better digital distribution system for games than Steam! It cares about gamers and treats them with more respect than Steam does. Too bad not many of these industry players see it this way.

Microsoft doing Play Anywhere this year was one of the best things that has happened to PC in a long time...

i've always despised the exclusive thing ( it has logic in console sales yes)

as for Steam... like it or not it's our home on PC, they've build something incredible in all these years

Steam is only doing well because its forced on us and been round longer. If I had the choice I would prefer the old way and install using dvd with out any 3rd party gaming clients.

Steam welcomes careful Drivers

Meh, PC gamers hate Microsoft. And they always will. Doesn't matter what MS does so just do whatever you are going to do and forget about trying to win PC gamers over with rational talk. It's never going to happen. It's common sense to sell your own product in your own store but people just refuse to get that.

"I don't think Valve's hurt by not having our first-party games in their store right now."

Yeah, not them. But you are. Nobody wants to buy your games from the Windows Store.

Release them on Steam and GOG.

Microsoft has a bad habit of saying one thing and then doing the exact opposite, so his commits are meaningless. Time for Phil and his minions to go!