When Microsoft announced that it will be supporting its new OS, a lot of PC gamers expected a number of Xbox franchises to make the jump to the PC. However, it appears that won’t be the case (at least for the latest triple-A Xbox One games).
As Phil Spencer claimed, Scalebound, Crackdown 3 and Quantum Break are not coming to the PC in the foreseeable future. While Spencer said that they might hit the PC, it’s almost seems a given that these franchise will remain exclusive to Xbox One.
“In the case of things like Scalebound or Crackdown or Quantum Break, you know, just to be completely honest with you, we started those games before we really looked at expanding into Windows in the way that I wanted to bring as part of becoming head of Xbox.” said Phil Spencer and continued.
“Going to those teams mid-cycle and saying: ‘Hey, by the way, I want to add a platform,’ didn’t really feel like necessarily the best way to end up with the best result for the game. They had a path that they were on. It’s not to say those games could never come to Windows, but right now we’re on the path to finish the great games that they’ve started, and I want that to be the case. These games are on a path, whereas with, like, Halo Wars 2 I had the opportunity from the beginning, when we’re sitting down with the studio, to say, ‘Here’s the target. Here’s what we wanna go do.’
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I was wondering about those 2 games. There goes the only interesting games on the Xbox. Tomb Raider at least is gonna end up on the PC.
P.s. I was kind of hoping to see a new Remedy game on the PC, and the destruction of a whole city in CD.. well.. lets just say im craving a new Red Faction game and this is the only thing out there like it.
Wow, look at all the support PC gamers have from M$.
hey we get fable legends! a pile of garbage F2P game that nobody asked for it 😀
Of course they aren’t. Because Microsoft doesn’t care for PC gaming no matter how many times they say they do.
Love how they always make PC porting sound like the most dreadful, most difficult and most expensive thing ever.
Oh well, can’t expect microsoft to port everything to pc.
Oh well, can’t expect microsoft do great games at all!
Shut up Spencer, it all comes down to sales.
Like I said in the past. Microsoft was and never will be PC-pro —__—
Well, It’s not like I believed their annual shi* of becoming PC-pro anyways. No harm done to me
HEY….. IT IS NOT ANNUAL! It usually is right before they release a new Operating System. It’s always the same….
It is actually annual. Someone posted a link of Microshi*’s annual statement of becoming PC-pro here a long time ago
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/861311d8a61d818428dfbd0a13faf2a29b2448cc60b1b4d316f82544902d64c4.gif
Oh no, how will I get by…
Now we can continue with our lives, and enjoy the 5000 titles that Steam, Origin and GOG offers.
Actually its Close to 15,000 games when you combine all the major digital distribution platforms.
Yeah we don’t need Microsoft to enjoy quality titles on PC tbh I’d prefer they keep away from it.
Carry on PC gamers, nothing to see here.
The same speech over again…
MS support the PC gaming a lot, because of that they have to delay the PC version of the new Tomb Raider for 4 months.
Do. Or do not. There is no try.
~ Yoda.
Don’t buy these games on Xbox One and they will be forced to release it on PC. Youtube these games if you have to. Just look at Alan Wake and Fable as an example.
Yes the soonter Quantnum break and Scalebound fail on xbox the sooner microsoft will allow them to come to pc. Quantunum break is 100% confirmed already because none of remedy games didnt release on pc. Even alan wakde that took 2 ywars came on pc. Platinium games started also releaseing their multiplatform games on pc since 2014 and they said that they will support pc gaming . Yes if you know someone who has xboxo ne tell him/her to not buy these games there but to wait to come for pc.
Who cares! They can even have the new tomb raider for all i care. Games with no soul or artistic value anyway…..
The only one who’s good of a bad bunch might be quantum break and even then i’m not all that conviced about it.
They are making it sound like it is so hard to make a PC port. Well we all knew from the start that Microsoft wasn’t that committed to PC gaming just look at what happened with vista people just a bunch of buzz words to get us hyped.
I kinda understand them though. Exclusives is what sells a platform to a large extent, that is no secret. Sony has multiple brands like Killzone, Uncharted and LBP to name a few of the biggest, if the Xbone was completely devoid of exclusives it would surely have an impact on sales.
I agree. I hate the idea of exclusives entirely, but I can see why companies do this exclusivity thing… it’s a smart business move.
Well, to only reason i switched to w10 was dx12, i don’t care about xbox games. They won’t just start porting exlusivities because then they’ll have nothing left and drop sales. QB will come to pc for sure just like Alan Wake but it will take some time.
ti all depends on their sales. right now they want to say the right things to make sure Xbox versions sell as much as possible. if it fails and it doesn’t attract more customers, then they will port them asap. of course, when it comes to Microsoft, Logic doesn’t work so…
Simple make the game first for the PC and then port it down using a great engine when will these companies learn and no i’m not blaming the programmers.
Just use a FREAKING engine that allows for easy porting like the Unreal engine 4 i mean why on earth can’t they just use a engine like that? Sometimes i’ll never understand these companies speaking as a person who is friends with a giant programmer and me being a troll programmer(can do some basic things worked on indie’s for the Wii U and PC) i see no real reason to make a in-house engine when their is already engines much better then anything we could make. Heck with a good modern engine you could make great games in 1 year or so for all platforms which means more $$$. The only way i can see using a in-house engine over a commercially available one is if its superior to theirs and it can easily port games to any modern platform.
Please if there is anyone here who is a programmer or who worked with them can you explain to me why they can’t simply do what i said above?
Exclusives deals. They don’t have any interest to release the game on different platforms becuase they think its going to increase their console sales. im in the university, studying system engineering. Not a programmer though 😀
In other words: fk exclusives !
Spoiler neither are Forza and Halo. Phil Spencer told this to Eurogamer in March.
“There isn’t a tremendous request today for racing games like Forza on PC,” says Spencer. “Obviously through the streaming we showed in January you’ll be able to play on any of the PCs you have in your home. I don’t want to build things because you can build them, I want to build things that our customers are asking for.”
Basically? Stream it from Xbox and BS lies about how we do not like racing sims on PC. How about Halo.
“We obviously put Halo on PC before – you go back and look and there’s obviously strong… The first-person shooter space on PC is a little bit different than on console if you look at the business model and other things that work, so we’d want to land the right experience. If you play this out – so let’s not talk about the next 6 months but talk about the next three or four years – you’ll see more and more developers that are building these games that are appropriate for any screen that the gamer’s sitting down on. And that’s just more opportunity for gamers and developers.”
Hey guyz we are totally different now. Not really, but 3-4 YEARS down the road? Maybe we will be. Can’t make any promises though, so please upgrade to Windows 10 and stop Vulkan API adoption from the game devs which will run on Windows 7,8,10 or any linux distro. You can totally trust us guyz. Oh and like we said these games will be designed around a console controller, not a keyboard and mouse cus we do not care about PC Gaming at all or we would be making Halo Wars 2 a PC exclusive or require a mouse keyboard on XB1.
BTW guyz there was a console controller RTS by Creative Assembly before on “Games for Windows”, like Halo Wars 2. It was called Stormrise. Is one of the worst rated games ever. Why? Cus RTS designed around a console controller is stupid. Anyways enjoy KI, which we have Iron Galaxy porting for you (Batman Arkham Knight), and which we only did because Sony announced SF V was on PS4/PC crossplay and enjoy our F2P console controller MMO’s and MOBA’s that would fail on just our console that is getting outsold 2 to 1 in a division that was 3 billion in the hole in 2013, but that is what you guys are for. We can make money off you from OS sales, and Xbox is there to prop up our API monopoly.
We truly care about PC Gaming this time. Trust us yo. The first 100 times we promised to care about PC Gaming since before Vista? Were just hot air. We totally mean it this time. BTW enjoy Rise of the Tomb Raider that we PAID to delay from you guys from third party. Haha SUCKERS, I mean valuable customers.
damn it i dont care for those games except for scalebound as i tend to love platinum games. sadly this one will have to be yet another one i will have to miss
MS can never reach steam’s level, the new Xbox app is pretty much GFWL 2.0, since probably none of the upcoming games like KI, fable legends, will be on steam.
“Probably” is a big word, isn’t it? So far all of Microsoft’s recent PC releases have seen a Steam release.
Thats what happened when Win 10 become popular, imagine Windows 10 was failed then windows would take a move by porting some xbox one exclusive to Win 10 exclusive.
Yeah, this is totally what they would do. Never have they put money down on their own promise. At best, those games will still be timed exclusive to Xbox1, and at worse it will never come as is stated in the article. It doesn’t matter how popular Win10 is, the only games MS will ever put are unknown (reputation-wise) games and failed Xbox games on PC, they won’t put any AAA Xbox1 games on PC. So much for treating PC with the same parity as Xbox1.
Oh yeah and also popular prequel games where the sequels are only on Xbox1, to get people to the console. Look at you GoW DE and Halo Wars 2.
I wonder when Remedy will be free from the Microsoft ball and chain.
Probably never, the money’s too good. Expect Quantum break 2 years later, like Alan wake.
I’m not against sequels per-se (I would absolutely love to have Alan Wake 2) it’s just this bulls**t console exclusivity Microsoft forces on them.
lol, I meant as in “Quantum break, 2 years later”, not as in a sequel.
lol, right.
They forced several people from Remedy to leave, including CEO who worked there for 15 years. I think it’s safe to say that they sold their soul to MS.
The sad thing is many PC Gamers told them that is all this was (Vista all over again). MS had to one up themselves on being aholes with 10 to. They were like oh…Vulkan API is a real threat and forcing us to give a free upgrade? Ok then! We will include the worst EULA ever seen in an OS, mine your data, steal your bandwidth with a default setting and if you want DX 12? Deal with it punks. Also this is now a “service” so we can change the EULA any time we want (they already have for the worse).
The PATHETIC thing? Xbox One gamers told MS NO on XB1 DRM and they had to revert that. Meanwhile the “PCMR” (who calls them peasants) led by clown MS apologists (advertising money, sponsorship) like Linus Tech Tips, PC Gamer among others? Is actually installing this OS, defending it on forums and preaching adoption. While the XB division loses BILLIONS and MS needs us to save this horrible console, these idiots are lining up so MS can bend them over. They will probably buy Rise of the Tomb Raider day 1, when MS PAID to delay that from PC.
One day PC Gamers will realize they can tell MS to F off with Windows 10, watch Vulkan API take over and watch MS close or sell off the XB division to someone who would use Vulkan API. At worst, MS would give in to our demands, we would get big franchises on PC, just by making them sweat. But nope. The PCMR wants to post dumb memes while they are MS’s slave and the biggest peasants of all.
Since the start of the Xbox division MS has made ONE good franchise from first party. Forza. Halo was Bungie and a moneyhat. Gears of War was Epic Games and a money hat. MS has never been good for gaming. All they did was convince idiots on consoles to pay a monthly fee to play online (they tried a yearly fee on us with GFWL) and money hat exclusivity. I think my favorite defense of Windows 10 and DX 12 I have heard is someone telling me I was “holding back adoption of low level API’s and technology”. Cus Mantle never ran on Windows 7 right? Meanwhile MS has held every API patch behind paywalls or a new OS like 11.1/11.2. One game EVER was made using those two API updates. The only ones holding us back is the same company that has always held us back. MS. They could have put DX 12 on 7.8 and 10 and we would have 100 percent adoption or close to it. We would have DX 12 games NOW. But nope. Now we have to wait until Vulkan API is ready or until idiots adopt Windows 10/DX 12, with MS holding a gun to our head, and us giving up privacy and signing an insane EULA.
You can turn off the data collection features in Win10. Are you aware of that? And I’m just curious… what’s exactly in the EULA that makes it seemingly dangerous in your opinion?
With what? Reg edits, turning 50 settings off that the average joe knows nothing about? Also using Cortana or a MS account at all means your data is theirs now. WTF do you think is going to be required for these games they do put on Windows 10? A MS account, not a local account.
Also? Per Forbes? July 27th article.
“In April senior Microsoft product marketing manager Helen Harmetz said users who forcibly stopped any Windows 10 security, feature or driver updates would eventually have their security updates cut off.”
So yeah there are ways to stop a lot of this. with reg edits, blocking 50 data collecting servers. That gives MS the right to end your “service.” AKA, have fun buying a new copy of Windows 10.
You have to be insane, an astroturfer (illegal paid advertising), a shareholder or an imbecile to stand behind this EULA and their policies..
Err. not really. There are pretty simple tutorials on disabling Win10’s data collection. A simple Google search would be enough for most people. There’s also a tool (I think it’s called DoNotSpy10) that offers more control, but ironically comes with adware. And requiring online accounts for games is nothing new. GFWL did it before, and so does Steam, Origin, Uplay, Battle.net etc. I don’t see why you’re singling out the MS account. Or am I misunderstanding you?
You CANNOT disable data collection. Even for those bright enough to block all of the telemetry servers via HOST. When you block them, you get error messages, but traffic remains the same.
I posted a link that requires mod authorization already in this thread, but as far as the servers (which I cannot link here because it automod blocks them)
Windows 10 acts more like a terminal than an operating system — because of the extent of the “cloud” integration, a large portion of the OS functions are almost dependant on remote (Microsoft’s) servers. The amount of collected information, even with strict privacy settings, is quite alarming.
Information transmitted
All text typed on the keyboard is stored in temporary files, and sent to servers.
There isn’t a clear purpose for this, considering there there’s no autocorrect/prediction anywhere in the OS. The implications of this are significant: because this is an OS-level keylogger, all the data you’re trying to transmit securely is now sitting on some MS server. This includes passwords and encrypted chats. This also includes the on-screen keyboard, so there is no way to authenticate to a website without MS also getting your password.
Telemetry is sent once per 5 minutes, to other servers.
You might think that “telemetry” has to do with OS usage or similar… turns out it’s telemetry about the user. For example, typing a phone number anywhere into the Edge browser transmits it to the servers above. In another example, typing the name of any popular movie into your local file search starts a telemetry process that indexes all media files on your computer and transmits them to even more servers
It’s hard to imagine any purpose for this other than the obvious piracy crackdown possiblities.
When a webcam is first enabled, ~35mb of data gets immediately transmitted to some more servers.
Everything that is said into an enabled microphone is immediately transmitted to some more servers.
If this weren’t bad enough, this behaviour still occurs after Cortana is fully disabled/uninstalled. It’s speculated that the purpose of this function to build up a massive voice database, then tie those voices to identities, and eventually be able to identify anyone simply by picking up their voice, whether it be a microphone in a public place or a wiretap on a payphone.
Interestingly, if Cortana is enabled, the voice is first transcribed to text, then the transcription is sent to some more servers.
If Windows is left unattended for ~15 mins, a large volume of traffic starts being transmitted to various servers. This may be the raw audio data, rather than just samples.
Other concerns
While the inital reflex may be to block all of the above servers via HOSTS, it turns out this won’t work: Microsoft has taken the care to hardcode certain IPs, meaning that there is no DNS lookup and no HOSTS consultation. However, if the above servers are blocked via HOSTS, Windows will pretend to be crippled by continuously throwing errors, while still maintaining data collection in the background. Other than an increase in errors, HOSTS blocking did not affect the volume, frequency, or rate of data being transmitted.
I see. Regarding the compulsory telemetry, are you referring to the CEIP statistics? I’ve heard similar things regarding Windows having compulsory diagnostic data collection, where disabling the feature merely reduces the amount of information collection from full to enhanced. As far as I’m aware, only Win10 Enterprise can completely disable it. But I’m not aware of the “persona data” aspect. I’ll definitely look into this.
See Ars Technica article as of today that verifies that you CANNOT stop telemetry and data collection to all the servers, even blocking them via HOSTS.
That’s all in the EULA where it tells you what it collects like crash dump info which is explained in the Ars comments by people who actually dove into it
Then I remember people don’t read the EULA. Or in your case, briefly skimmed over it. Saw “We collect your data in cases of” and ran off screaming “STALLMAN WAS RIGHT”.
worst thing that can now happen is for MS to force publishers of the upcoming games to be DX12 only, also forcing us to upgrade to win10 in the process.
Forgot can’t link here. You can see Steam hardware surveys for yourself though. Windows 10 is at 2.3 percent for all versions. Vulkan API is 100 percent seeing it will work on 7 and 8. Why would any dev use DX 12…
because MS will give them money to use DX12
If they want to be in front of a judge? Go for it. EA, Blizzard and every big game engine has backed Vulkan (Unity, Frostbite, UE4). Johan from Dice said they will try both API’s. Johan also retweeted privacy concerns on Windows 10. Pretty bad when the EULA is so bad, that devs who make money selling to Xbox One are calling out MS’s BS.
MS cannot buy out every third party game out in the world. Xbox loses money. Illegal payments under the table to devs will mean heavy fines.
A) OS overhead means optimizations will still lose frames compared to Linux Distros supporting VK and VK running on W10
B) Most 7/8 users will be on unsupported Vulkan hardware. Intel 4000 isn’t supported by Vulkan in particular.
If they want to keep the 7/8 customers. They are stuck on DX11 or OGL 4.5 since those on VK and DX12 hardware will be enthusiast level and on either w10 or Linux.
Also inb4 paranoia laden rant about an EULA that’s actually less severe than Apple and Google’s and screaming “Astroturfer” at people. If you are doing the unironic Stallman angle then you are the worst kind of Linux evangelist and hurting Linux. Telling people to install Linux because “BUH M$” and not the advantages Linux brings just puts them off when you sperg out.
(>Implying the NSA isn’t in at a hardware level with Intel anyway)
?hat not bad. Buy paying developers to make pc verisons dx 12 only it means that we we will get the best graphics and perfomance in games. DX11 must stop getting supported and move on.
Fukken 5 star post, motherfudger.
If you want Vulkan adoptation then get people on board Linux by offering guides and support instead of whining about Win 10 constantly when you can easily get said users onto Ubuntu or Mint without being confrontational. Every F***ing week it’s the same “WAAAAH M$ SELLS DATA” and when people start asking what you would suggest it just goes straight into an anti-M$ rant followed by “install gentoo” and H*ll breaking loose. There is literally nothing in your post about how to move on and the same platitudes of “F*** M$” we heard since Usenet. Where’s the easy guide to installing Debian and Ubuntu? Where’s a quick guides to distros and using Wine? What about even a guide to Puppy so people can experiment with dual booting? It’s just the same whine, whine, whine every time and people entering the PCMR will just tune off when people sperg about how much they hate M$ instead of helping them install Linux and install Win10 instead. Vulkan will never get adopted if there is fracturing and Steam OS is currently a joke when there are much better distros for gaming.
r/PCMR mods told r/LinuxMR the same thing when they banned M$ whining threads recently. Sh*t or get off the G*dd*amn pot. Make it the year of Linux instead of whining about M$ holding you back.
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I can definitely see quantum break hitting PC. It doesn’t matter if microsoft says its an xbone exclusive. Capcom said the same thing about dead rising 3 (being exclusive to xbone), yet it still came to PC.
Besides, Remedy (who are working on Quantum Break), have developed several PC games before such as max payne 1, 2, and alan wake franchise.
You should be mad about MS paying a dev in the first place TO KEEP A THIRD PARTY GAME OFF PC.
How do you think Halo, later Gears of Wars games were kept off PC? You think these devs rule out PC out of the goodness of their hearts to MS? Xbox One sells less than PC on Software. Even Ubisoft (LOL) sold more games to PC than XB1. PS4? They sold more to than PC. XB1 is getting murdered on sales. These deals do not happen without money. MS is paying to keep or delay these games off PC in the first place.
You cannot claim to be “committed to PC Gaming” when you are openly hostile towards it with third party devs. Nothing has changed. MS is still doing the same BS it always has. That is why you are waiting for a delay on Rise of the Tomb Raider. We would have had the game delayed a year but we complained a TON and MS has to get suckers on Windows 10. If we hadn’t MS would have let it become available when it is on PS4. It took MONTHS of outrage to even get an announcement recency on it of first quarter next year.
Aso because Tomb Raider is a much more popular francise with a lot more fans on pc than others games like gears of war halo e.t.c.
stop hoping for something that will never happen
M$ WILL NEVER SUPPORT PC GAMING
Its sad cause in reality they will make more money to release the game on all modern platforms.
agree. But they must have their reason. Still, f’ them !
good to hear, quantum break looks like absolute crap. Bring on more alan wake.
Alan wake is total crap. Bring back the Payne
If only the games they offer where actually good. Halo Wars and reharshed Gears of War, lol no.
Halo Wars 2 got me a bit interested but only because of Creative Assembly. Gears??? Not interested.
Classic PR stunt by Mr. Spencer. M$ never cared and will never care about PC. They are just porting almost decade old games on PC and even those games are just remake of old games that were already on PC. Others are F2P crap that no one cares about. I still expect Quantum Break to come to PC few years after the release of Xbox One but they won’t make an official announcement until it moves some units of Xbox One.
As I always say,,, who needs enemies when you have friends like M$. I never expected anything from them. They just throw one or two ports at us in a decade and think they are doing a lot for PC Gaming. As if PC platform is starving for games. Jokers.
Couldn’t have said it better. Oh and it gets worse. Someone has traced what all the telemetry (data collection) does in Windows 10.
Will post the link under this post. Will have to be approved by a mod though (all links here do). Also it is impossible to block HOSTS. MS has gotten around that.
I rate Windows 10, 10 Snowden’s out of 10.
Well, looking forward to seeing the link then.
They allowed my comment then blocked the site. Whatever. Everyone already knew about the telemetry servers in Windows 10. Here is what they do. Can’t list each one, because they will moderate.
Windows 10 acts more like a terminal than an operating system — because of the extent of the “cloud” integration, a large portion of the OS functions are almost dependant on remote (Microsoft’s) servers. The amount of collected information, even with strict privacy settings, is quite alarming.
Information transmitted
All text typed on the keyboard is stored in temporary files, and sent (once per 30 mins) to: servers omittied (see telemetry server list for Windows 10 which many people have listed on the internet).
There isn’t a clear purpose for this, considering there there’s no autocorrect/prediction anywhere in the OS. The implications of this are significant: because this is an OS-level keylogger, all the data you’re trying to transmit securely is now sitting on some MS server. This includes passwords and encrypted chats. This also includes the on-screen keyboard, so there is no way to authenticate to a website without MS also getting your password.
Telemetry is sent once per 5 minutes, to: servers omitted
You might think that “telemetry” has to do with OS usage or similar… turns out it’s telemetry about the user. For example, typing a phone number anywhere into the Edge browser transmits it to the servers above. In another example, typing the name of any popular movie into your local file search starts a telemetry process that indexes all media files on your computer and transmits them to: servers omitted.
It’s hard to imagine any purpose for this other than the obvious piracy crackdown possiblities.
When a webcam is first enabled, ~35mb of data gets immediately transmitted to: servers omitted.
Everything that is said into an enabled microphone is immediately transmitted to: servers omitted
If this weren’t bad enough, this behaviour still occurs after Cortana is fully disabled/uninstalled. It’s speculated that the purpose of this function to build up a massive voice database, then tie those voices to identities, and eventually be able to identify anyone simply by picking up their voice, whether it be a microphone in a public place or a wiretap on a payphone.
Interestingly, if Cortana is enabled, the voice is first transcribed to text, then the transcription is sent to: servers omitted.
If Windows is left unattended for ~15 mins, a large volume of traffic starts being transmitted to various servers. This may be the raw audio data, rather than just samples.
Other concerns
While the inital reflex may be to block all of the above servers via HOSTS, it turns out this won’t work: Microsoft has taken the care to hardcode certain IPs, meaning that there is no DNS lookup and no HOSTS consultation. However, if the above servers are blocked via HOSTS, Windows will pretend to be crippled by continuously throwing errors, while still maintaining data collection in the background. Other than an increase in errors, HOSTS blocking did not affect the volume, frequency, or rate of data being transmitted.
Since i am using firefox for manyyears and continue to use will microsoft be watching what we i am doing on thei ntenet? I dont have a microhpone or webxam so at least they can not try to spy me through these. I have disabled all privacy settings from control panel. It was the first thing i did when i installed windows 10 2 weeks ago.
Information I linked has also just been verified by Ars Technica. There is no privacy whatsoever on Windows 10. Telemetry (data collection) is a core part of the OS and you cannot block the OS sending home data even via hosts. Disabling Cortana does nothing. Disabling all privacy functions does nothing.
lets hope steam os succeed
Wow. Now I feel better for putting the Win10 Upgrade on hold.
I don’t care about Crackdown 3 or Quantum Break that much, the one I really wanted was Scalebound. And while I don’t see the game being released on PC so soon, I can see it happening, it’s a game with online co-op, they could release it on PC with a crossplay funtion like they’ll do with Killer Instinct.
Despite also having online, crossplay with Crackdown woudln’t work so much because… well, it’s a shooter, that pretty speaks for itself why it wouldn’t work. Don’t wanna give Microsoft some PTSDs.
PC “master race” fegs begging for exclusives as usual meanwhile console plebs enjoying their exclusives. Just as usual.
Every platform has exclusives. The Turbo-Grafx 16 had exclusives. The Neo-Geo had exclusives. The effing Ouya had exclusives. Exclusives alone don’t make a platform great.
I dont understand their tactics. Do they really think this will force me, the proud owner of the GTX 980, to buy their sh**ty box? Keep dreaming Microsoft.
This is such a weird story. The comment made by Spencer doesn’t commit to either direction. He neither confirms or denies anything nor says anything that makes a compelling case for or against the games coming to PC.
Case in point: Some websites have taken the exact same quote and spun it in the opposite direction, citing Spencer’s comment to mean the possibilty of later PC versions is completely open.
And here I am wondering who didn’t already see this coming.
Has any Crackdown game been on PC? I don’t think so and therefore part 3 will also not come to PC. Scalebound has no number on it so I presume there is no history, we simply don’t know. Quantum Break however is the inofficial sequel to Alan Wake which got a solid PC version. The devs have PC roots. Translation from industry speak to truth: “Microsoft doesn’t want you to foresee that Quantum Break is indeed coming to PC” 😉
IIRC Alan Wake took a long time to get ported so expect a long wait for QB as well.
No, I’m not surprised. I expected it even.
XBox games will always be exclusively for consoles. The only foreseeable time the PC to get those games is when they become remasters like the Gears of War. A Windows 10 future where the XB fans get the latest iteration of their franchise while the PC gamers have to wait for them to be bundled off in a remaster editon several years later…is not what I want.
MS only see the PC as a revenue stream from F2Ps, micro-transaction heavy games and indie games. The new XBox games we’re seeing for Windows 10 are F2Ps- Killer Instinct 2 and Fable Legends to name a few.
As for Halo War 2…I have this tingling feeling at the back of my head screaming F2P!!!! The last time MS brought an exclusive RTS at the launch of their latest OS was the F2P Age of Empires Online with Windows 8. Plus Creative Assembly is making Halo War 2. A dev with great experience making RTS but which experience can we expect they’ll bring to Halo War 2: the good old grand RTS from their Total War series or the F2Ps from the newer Total Ar Battles and Arena they are busy making atm?
They will to PC in the end. I’m happy to wait. I’ll wait as long as possible before upgrading to windows 10 as well.