Xbox Boss Confirms More Steam Releases Coming, Discusses PC Struggles

i never understand the "why bother to try to compete with...." (in this case steam) statements.

why did windows ever try to compete with ms-dos?

why did steam ever try to compete with actual stores?

why did any isp ever try to compete with america online??

why did sony and microsoft ever try to compete with nintendo in the console market?

why did blizzard ever make world of warcraft when everquest had ruled the mmo world for 5 years?

obviously competing with a major player doesn't guarantee success, but honestly competition for steam does actually benefit us gamers.. uplay and origin give away free games to try to get people to try their service, that's good for people that want free games.. wouldn't surprise me at all if microsoft does the very same thing with the windows store.

plus valve is going to try harder to make sure they keep their share of the market, which is good for us gamers.

Only one being hurt here is Microsoft lol.

"There's going to be areas where we cooperate and there's going to be areas where we compete. The end result is better for gamers."

When games are on MS Store, no, the end result is not better for gamers.

Wake up Philly.

I want their games on gog.com, I'd pick that over steam any day.

Don't forget GOG, Microsoft. They might not be Valve, but the approach they take to PC gaming is worth mentioning them.

Well he's not wrong- Valve aren't really hurt by not having some Microsoft games on Steam, Microsoft are. They're artificially limiting their potential client base in (yet another) attempt to push their own proprietary platform which actually has even more DRM than Steam, not to mention the other limitations on modding for example. So far it looks like GFWL 2.0.

Not exactly a great way to attract more customers to your platform, even EA learned that lesson with Origin.

How about you release all your games for it. Your Windows Store and UWP has proven to be a big fat failure.

Quantum Break not doing well on the PC? Who would have thunk it?! Who'd want that UWP DRM crap where your files are locked and other nastiness, plus games run worse there. Just dump your games on Steam/GOG. Bethesda and other folks do that, and I don't hear them complaining about profits for the PC.

well thats just funny, this is only going to end in 2 ways, either all the games will end up on steam because its profitable (which it will probably be) or they wont and MS will try to be the opponents of valve if they think enough people will buy the games. the problem is people changing to windows 10 than anything else, alot of people dont like that MS have access to private files allowing them to pry into your private life.

The W10 store is in its infancy. I think that MS is setting a great tone by putting their Xbox games on the W10 store. They need to work on optimization and they gotta make their own sort of platform. I think they're doing that already. But eventually, the value of cross buy and cross platform play will make itself known, and MS will carve out a solid niche for themselves.

Optimization needs to happen first.

i am just confirms I don't give a fu*k to Win10 store games

lol They can't compete with Steam with only exclusives. The fact that they are not offering the same features or more than Steam makes their "app" relegated to an alternative source of the same ilk as Uplay or Origin (they are just game launchers, there is nothing as a PC gamer that makes me want to linger there). The restrictive nature of UWP makes their store even less appealing. Why the fck would i want a restrictive console gaming experience on PC?

I've tried Forza Apex Beta and honestly i don't know what the fuss was all about, maybe because i have played too much Assetto Corsa/Project cars and expected an actual driving simulation...already uninstalled. And for fck sake, they should allow users to choose on which drive they want to install their games(that should be common sense for devs on PC). I have a 500gb Samsung 850 and 256 gb Eco2 Mushkin SSDs and i prefer to install games which can greatly benefits from faster loading times on them (Forza isn't one of them). The rest of the games go to my two 3tb mechanical drives. But their mobile app store doesn't allow me to do that among other things.

Well, at least they have been receptive to suggestions. I hope they will continue to listen this time around or they will end up with the GFWL fate. PC and console gamers don't have the same mindset when it comes to gaming environment. If they don't get that, they are destined to fail again.

If I'm on the fence about a game and it's only on the Windows Store and not on Steam, then I'll probably jump on to the side of not buying it (I'm looking at you Quantum Break). ReCore sounds really interesting though, if it turns out to be as good as it looks, I will bite the bullet.

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

NO SHIT!

Can't help but laugh at people complaining about these games not being on Steam, yet happily go and buy Overwatch off of Battle.net.

QB was the first and the last PC game I paid 70€ for it.

Quantum break had a double of other games' price in Windows Store in our region (Russia). Interestingly, why didn't it sell well?

Put Cuphead on Steam and we'll call it square.

Im not advocating monopolies but i cant understand why these companies like EA,ubisoft and microsoft think they can compete with valve. Do they really think people want to install extra software on their PC's to play the 2 games a year they release which will never drop past 30% when they go on sale? The sad part is its the gamers who suffer as a result of their greed.

Im not advocating monopolies but i cant understand why these suits companies like EA,ubisoft and microsoft think they can compete with valve. Do they really think people want to install extra software on their PC's to play the 2 games a year they release which will never drop past 30% when they go on sale? The sad part is its the gamers who suffer as a result of their greed.

Im not advocating monopolies but i can understand why these suits companies like EA,ubisoft and microsoft think they can compete with valve. Do they really think people want to install extra software on their PC's to play the 2 games a year they release which will never drop past 30% when they go on sale? The sad part is its the gamers who suffer as a result of their greed.

PC gaming has been struggling for years it's time to lay this dog to rest.Fact is XOne exclusives won't save PC gaming so microsoft needs to leave the best exclusives in gaming on the Xbox.They have never done good on PC they tried with Gears of War and Halo both did terrible in sales not reaching a million combine.While on the Xbox platform they did millions on top of millions.There is no need to fool with steam since steam has to pretty much give their games away for a few bucks to get people to buy them