Xbox has made several changes to provide better PC support over the last couple of years, and on top of that several Xbox Game Studios titles are finding great success on the PC platform as well. XBOX studios head Phil Spencer recently thanked PC players for showing their support, while also acknowledging the fact that there’s more work to do ahead. Spencer thanked the PC gaming community for the warm reception they have given to recent Xbox games, in his latest Tweet.
As we already know it’s safe to say that Microsoft’s efforts for PC gaming haven’t been received very well, at least looking at the ‘Games for Windows Live’ service, and also the early days of titles on the ‘Windows Store’. But over the last couple of years, however, few things have started changing and materializing. Recently, several exclusive titles from Xbox Game Studios have arrived on PC at the same time as on Xbox. PC gamers also have the ability to choose between Xbox Game Pass for PC, or if they prefer Steam.
Last year in May 2019 Microsoft announced that more Xbox Game Studios games were on the way to the Steam platform. This move combined with the launch of Xbox Game Pass on PC, has significantly boosted the company’s business/growth. In recent weeks games like ‘Sea of ??Thieves’ and ‘Grounded’ have attracted a significant amount of players on both Steam and Xbox Game Pass, and something similar happened with the arrival of Halo: The Master Chief Collection as well. Phil Spencer recently tweeted a message stating that the newfound support Xbox is seeing on PC is highly appreciated. He also emphasized that there’s more work to do. Spencer assured his long-term commitment to PC gamers as well. He also thanked the team over at Steam for their help, support and cooperation.
“I want to thank the community for the support on PC. We made statements like this a few times over the years and there were skeptical responses. There is more work to be done, but the support we are seeing through Xbox Game Pass and Steam is great now, thanks,” wrote Spencer.
I wanted to thank the community for the support on PC. We made statements like this a few times over the years and the skeptical responses were earned. More work to do but the support we are seeing through @XboxGamePassPC and @Steam team right now is really great, thanks. https://t.co/MQKdShv7MK
— Phil Spencer (@XboxP3) August 1, 2020
Several Xbox games like Rare’s pirate adventure Sea of Thieves have sold over a million copies since releasing on Steam back in June. As of now, currently four of the top ten best selling games on Steam are titles published by Xbox Game Studios, with Grounded being the best selling title.
Future Xbox titles like Microsoft Flight Simulator and Halo Infinite would be releasing on PC alongside Xbox One and Xbox Series X this Holiday 2020, further boosting the success of Xbox titles on the PC platform. All in all things are going well for Microsoft on the PC front, and I hope it continues to get better with time. The Xbox boss seems to be pleased with the support given for Microsoft on the PC, because of Game Pass and Steam.
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I’m glad they’re releasing xbox exclusives on pc! Just put them on steam at the right price and we’ll be happy.
See, not so hard 🙂
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yeah . yall have some work to do ……
it gets worse, they bought inexile and obsidian to make woke games.
Lets hope Master cheif will stay a man. Not a brown skin transgender asian with red hair
343 is not Microsoft lol.
Microsoft allowed 343 to destroy Halo, is as much as their fault. Halo is a F2P game now….let that sink in…their MAIN videogame franchise…Minecraft won i guess.
who is this “yall”? Is that the name of the monkey on your screenshot?
Phil Spencer and who ever made the new halo
I am surprised Microsoft hasn’t kicked out Phil yet.
Why would they? The guy is doing a pretty good job.
Why?
He’s the reason the Xbox division even exists at this point after years of working at a loss, Don Mattrick nearly killed the brand and now they are actually making a hefty profit.
“Developers Developers Developers Developers Developers Developers Developers Developers Developers Developers Developers Developers Developers Developers Developers Developers Developers Developers Developers Developers Developers Developers Developers Developers Developers Developers Developers Developers Developers Developers Developers Developers Developers Developers Developers Developers Developers Developers Developers Developers ”
Steve Balmer pretty sure after that they will take whoever has a suite and tie
I dislike the guy a lot BUT i admit he is clever and fullfilled his promise to the suits of making the division profitable.
MS was about to chop/sell the xbox division, his head was on the line if that happen so he asked for some time and flexibility withing the company to make it “profitable”.
The cleverness comes from the fact that the only thing he had to do was roll back all the bs that people did not like of the xbox at release and that the money men would not care much how he does it as long as they don’t have to invest more monies in a division they are about to chop.
This is one of the reason the xbone had no games.
He did nothing new or innovative, just roll back bs, which he did. This alone would make enough bank to save the division and be rewarded, which it just what happen.
All the service BS he copied from EA, remember EA access was the 1st of its kind AND exclusive to xbox for years.
So after he secured his future by fullfilling the promise to make the division profitable and along the way clean the image of the brand, He started doing “friendly” things.
I don’t see ANY big compnay kicking out someone that fills their pockets, this pos no matter how much i dislike it is no exception.
Microsoft do occasionally learn from their mistakes when those mistakes hit their bottom line. Hence them evidently having written off Windows 10 Store as a lost cause and having sensibly reverted to releasing their games on Steam.
The Windows Store seems to actively discourage the customer from doing business with them. I bought 2 games from them. Gears of War Ultimate and Gears 4. First of all the downloads showed how much the game needed to download and about 25% before that goal was reached they just stopped downloading.
Then the download installer didn’t put launch icons on my desktop. That shouldn’t be a big deal. Just go to the game folder and copy/paste the launch icons to my desktop. Nope, MS refuses you access to the game folders even if you have administrator privileges.
I was able to move the launch icons from the start menu to my desktop but to this day I don’t understand why MS refuses me to have access the game folder or even look inside to see what’s there.
I will never spend another penny on the Windows Store.
Even the main guy at Digital Foundry has slammed Windows Store on at least two occasions. Fair play to him for doing so because Microsoft have been a paid sponsor of past DF videos on YouTube.
Gamepass is optional.
UWP is not the same as DRM. Although UWP is commonly shipped with the Windows Store DRM (which has been cracked).
we are pc gamers we will support xbox & microsoft till the end no matter what, because without microsoft a pc is nothing, they just little bit need to fix the windows store with may be different style design & also a steam support on most games, other than that all ok
You wouldn’t happen to be related to Sp4cTro would you?
I just want a working win 10 HDR implementation for my monitor.
Xbox is way better than Sony
That “TODO” list must be long and half of is there as filler for PR.
I bet in said list you won’t find neither of these :
“Make windows 10 games universal, don’t tie them to given builds/versions”
“Realize wokeness is allianating a chuck of possible buyers, make games and services that cater to that section in order to increase profits, market reach and consumer satisfaction.”
Both are posible they just don’t want to.
May i remind you DX12 was “imposible” for Windows 7, yet it is a reality.
Nonetheless bullshitier Phil needs to bullshit to bolster his “good boy” image for those that eat it.
“Future Xbox titles like… Microsoft Flight Simulator would be releasing on PC alongside Xbox One and Xbox Series X”
The PC version is to arrive first and is slated for release on 18th August, 2020. They are still yet to announce when the game will be released for their consoles.
All they needed to do was try, which was something they stopped doing soon after the original Xbox was released.
“XBOX head Phil Spencer thanks the PC Gaming community for their support…”
Translation: “Thanks for helping me keep my grotesquely overpaying job.”
Nobody at Microsoft deserves your support. Nobody.
Mod support can add enough content variety to keep people playing a game for decades. Proper support for modding and maybe even mod development tools for the PC version of games wouldn’t go amiss.
No one was a bigger critic of MSFT for the last 19 than me. But if I’m being honest it’s kind of nice that they actually are trying this time. At least Phil Spencer didn’t say “pc gaming is very important to us” again.
give me gears of war 2
Yes but on Steam. You don’t want to deal with that sh*tty MS Store.
Where the hell is rare replay. I wanna play banjo 1 in 5k 144 fps with Ray tracing.
Halo 5?