Xbox Boss Confirms More Steam Releases Coming, Discusses PC Struggles

pffffft **** steam. Put your games on GOG.

Wut? Quantum Break? Is that a PC game because I didn't see it on Steam?

Lord GabeN has brought Xbox games to justice. The other game companies may be catching on the the fact that they will probably make more money in game sales than consoles bought to play the exclusive game. It seems Sony is now falling behind in the race for least blind Console manufacturer.

I think Microsoft is wrong about not putting Quantum Brake on steam, they would probably see about 25-35% increase in sales!

Until Microsoft removes the API used for loading games, i would rather have them on steam. One of the key reasons gamers play on PC is either the ability to mod their games, or play without restrictions found on consoles. Ask anyone about the debacle that was tomb raider.

Also a side note is that it's rather cumbersome to find games you've bought on the windows store as you don't have a game list.

What reason do i have to buy an xbox?

Nobody wants your games on steam mircosoft.

Screw Steam and the Xbox Store

Just put them all on GOG

Valve is of course not hurting. HOWEVER the gamers who know and don't want to use MS (or Origin) can potentially be if they want to play certain titles behind content walls.

I don't like having a million different accounts for a million different stores. Undue hyperbole aside, having all the developers try and profit with their own content one stop shop (and forced registry) is bad for gamers. Steam and GoG are great universal stores for people to get their content. But publishers are getting worse and worse these days and all want their own slice and wall off their digital content. That is bad for the gamer.

Competition is good for gamers. Only haters think this is somehow bad.

I don't care who I'm giving my money to, but I want all my games in one space. I begrudgingly opened up an account on GOG because they have a lot of the games steam is missing, but I don't want to go any further than that. Uplay can go suck it! So can Origin. And so can MS if they go the same route. Steam beat you all to the punch.

I don't begrudge them wanting to use the windows store for games, I just wish it was better. and it sounds like they will work on improving it. The important thing is, MS is putting all their games out on PC now. Regardless of how they do it, I'll take that as a win.

Not playing a game because it uses a third-party platform other than Steam is silly. competition is a good thing, and Valve could really use some competition since they are in a rut of trading and cosmetic items right now.

i won't lie, as interested as i am in some of the games they announced this E3, i won't play them because they're windows 10 exclusives, and require me to sign up for yet another store.

Dear Phil

Please make external modules that will allow products from other stores to pop Xbox achievements. Even stuff that's not yours

No one wants fake Steam Uplay or Origin junk.

Right, it only hurts the sales of your games. But not as much as the abysmal state of current ports.

If they put games on Steam but it then just opens on the Windows 10 store, then i'll pass.

To paraphrase Johnny Minmat -- We have four (4) groups now:

Group 1: Doesn't want to buy a PC and only has a 1080p TV, they stick with Xbox One.

Group 2: Has a powerful PC, they buy the best Xbox games through the Windows 10 Store.

Group 3: Wants 4K media/UHD disc playback for cheap, they buy Xbox One S.

Group 4: Has a 4K TV, doesn't care for PC and wants premium 4K gaming - they buy Scorpio.

All four groups are purchasing 'Xbox' games and using Xbox services, supporting Microsoft. The console people are buying hardware (running a retrofit of Windows 10) and console games, the PC people are buying/updating to a new Microsoft OS that is being heavily phased-in, and as a bonus they're buying exclusive Xbox games from a Microsoft Store, for their PC. All of it cash in the bank for MS. For better or worse.

remove UWP and we'll talk

Where's all the salt.. coming from..

sure Xbox's launch is a failure... but they chopped the head of that other head and installed Phil Spencer.

So far Xbox's efforts have only ever been on improving their console and service.... it's also a hot time right now for the Xbox community to speak up... because they are actually listening and providing features asked by the community.

Xbox One S will be obsolete in 18 months if people go out and get a 4k TV for their Xbox Scorpio... If people don't get a 4k TV than you might as well stay with Xbox One S.

*shrugs* I'm just going to forget that UWP exists the same way I forgot the Windows 10 store exists. I don't trust Microsoft and never will until they prove otherwise.

Quantum Break would benefit from being on Steam. Even if it's still broken, at least Steam would allow me to fully download and install it, unlike the Win10 Store.

I hope everything works well for MS part so I can play all of there games on PC and I won't need to use my Xbox One anymore.

Have to agree here. Look through the PR-speak to see reality:

Ultimately, this is their Windows 10 set top box. Their Steambox. The Xbone was intended to be this vessel, but it simply lacked the muscle to stay long term, as Microsoft's Windows 10/UWP strategy evolved. Now they'll have their vessel for that UWP roadmap with Scorpio. It's all about countering loss on hardware with profit on software and service platforms, placing a Windows 10/Store entity in the living room for general consumers lacking the know-how or interest to assemble a HTPC Win 10 solution. Despite the battle cry for 'end of generations' and 'Play Anywhere' this is decidedly a plan to expand the walled garden of Xbox Live, Windows 10, UWP, and associated platform services.

I completely understand where they're coming from, but I think MS makes these type of decisions for business reasons and then lose business.

They will break me at some point, but everything is working for me and I just don't see a reason to switch to Windows 10 yet. MS loves forcing people, like they did with their indie dev policies and Kinect. Again, I get it, but it just turns a lot of people off. Might help them in the long run, but look how quickly they usually switch things up when people don't respond as well as they hoped.

Games like Recore, Scalebound, and a full Forza game will probably force my hand, but for now I'm good with what I can play on Steam & GOG. I'm still glad MS is finally showing love to their other platform. I just wish they handled things differently.