We’ve heard countless times that Microsoft is committed to PC gaming. And while the team has indeed made some efforts to win back PC gamers, it has also made some really stupid mistakes (UWP and Win10 Store exclusives anyone?). In his latest interview with Major Nelson, Xbox’s Phil Spencer stated that Microsoft will release some exclusives games to the PC in the future.
As Phil Spencer said during that interview.
“I know a lot of people looked at our early PC launches and they said <<Hey, this does not feel like a PC game>>. And we know today’s games will take two-three years to actually go build a good game. I look at Halo Wars 2, I think it’s a good PC game. But you know, let’s be honest; a genre that started on the PC as RTS, that we on Halo Wars 1 took it over to console, and now with Halo Wars 2 we’re shipping on both platforms. And people see that and they are like<<Is this a console RTS?>> <<Is this a PC RTS?>>. And we are going to say yes. But I’ll say in the long run Windows is incredibly important to Microsoft, and gaming is one of the most vibrant activities that happens on the Windows platform, and the Xbox team now runs gaming for Microsoft. Gaming on PC is something that we are committed to, we’re gonna have more things to talk about. We’re gonna have games only released on the PC. We’re gonna have games only released on console. And PC gaming is critically important to the company.”
So there you have it. As Phil Spencer claimed, there will be both PC and console exclusives from Microsoft. Therefore, it will be interesting to see whether Microsoft’s triple-A games will remain on its consoles or whether the PC will actually receive a triple-A exclusive title.
As said, this isn’t the first time that Microsoft claimed its commitment to PC gaming. And while we did receive Halo 5 Forge, Quantum Break, Dead Rising 4, Gears of War 4 and the Forza series, it’s still quite unclear whether the next main part in the Halo series will find its way on the PC.
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Just stop! We dont want your awful “exclusives” and everything MS does to “improve” PC gaming further hinders it. MS F|_|CK OFF!
“we”.
yes “We” ms shill.
“We” how?
Stop using their OS if you are really against MS that much.
I don’t have a problem with windows as a platform, but MS sticking their noses in “gaming” on windows. Everything they’ve done to “care” or “improve” PC gaming in the last 15 years has only hindered gaming on their platform.
PC gaming was thriving long before MS was “committed” to it
What exactly have they “committed” though? A mouthpiece?
As soon as they stop forcing people to use their os to play games due to dx12 exclusivity, devs should which to another api.
I do and so do many others. Quit trying to speak for everyone. You must be some kind of a douche to not let other have and enjoy video games.
XBox shills are thataway —->
Damage that doesn’t affect you because you don’t buy their games.
Sooo….
GFWL affected a lot more then just first party MS games
Also someone isn’t automatically a shill when they call you out on your stupidity. Stop falling back on that excuse.
Remember Dirt 2… I wish a Steam port would exist for it… sob…
No man, it affects him and me and anyone else who doesn’t use their stupid UWP and Windows Store, but somehow want to play their games. I mean FFS, I and many others couldn’t even launch the store for a good 2 months until MS updated Windows… and the icing on the cake… you can’t play games on it if you use certain antivirus programs like Avast for example… Yeah, I’m not kidding, this is from personal experience. Do you honestly think after that kind of experience I would buy something from that wretched store? Do you?
I would much rather prefer those greedy bastards at MS would put their games on Steam or better yet GOG (ha!), but nooooo, gotta get the extra cash in exchange for a worse product… because Micro$soft.
They’ve proven… every single goddamn time… they are shady and not trustworhy. GFWL, Xbox One launch, Windows 10 TOS disclosure, DX12 platform exclusivity, UWP and I can list a lot more… and it doesn’t take a lot of research to find out about this.
If you support their service providing and their business practices as a whole, you are retroactively ruining gaming for everybody else. So I hope you have a clear conscience when you sleep at night. 🙂
I never once said I support them but I’m not going to start going on about how WE don’t want their games. Because I don’t speak for little jimmy down the street who actually wants their games.
He didn’t say “We don’t want your games”, he said exclusives, which is another thing entirely.
Any gamer that wants exclusives, harms all other gamers, every game should be sold on all platforms.
If the only way they can sell a platform is by restricting games, it means the platform’s a piece of crap, and not worth buying.
I have nothing to hide from the NSA so I’m ok with them spying on me
You’re one of the few Microsoft marketers (or even dumber: fanboys) on this site. You stick out like a sore thumb. Feel free to give up anytime.
Oh shut the f*ck up. You’re one of the idiots who falls back on calling others a shill because you don’t have a good argument.
News flash: When someone disagrees with you they aren’t automatically a shill. Sorry to burst your little bubble.
I couldn’t care less about Microsoft. The one and only game I bought from the Windows 10 store was Forza Horizon 3 and that gave me so many issues I got a refund 24 hours later. But why should I waste my time telling you this, you’ve already made your mind up and there’s no changing it because you’re a stubborn idiot.
Instead of “we” I suggest using “practical people” or something like that, I know it’s not that convenient but using “we” is a fallacy in most cases.
That however doesn’t make your statement any less truthful regarding traditional M$oft’s PR and business practices.
They must make third person shooter or fps where the protagonist will be a blond girl with glasses that will be killing and monsters and aliens. With the fast gameplay and health packs and those things that we pc gamers know and love. And of coure very high difficulty with lot of monsters on the screen !Something like doom or serious sam but with a blond girl with glasses as a protagonist. That a good idea for their fist pc excluve title.
Hail to the queen baby?
What do you mean?
Duke Nukem with boobs.
Yes something like that but with the fast paced and lot of enemies gameplay of the old duke nukem games or like the old and 2016 DOOM games. That a good idea for a pc exculive dont you think?
But we must sent email to Phil spenser or at least tweet him this.
I wouldn’t trust him with such a job. Maybe some independent studio like Flying Wild Hog.
as long as its UWP , its still not really PC … just win10-labeled “Xbox as a service” blackbox
Well, at least they are releasing their hostageware to PC.
yeah .. sucks that the platform they are releasing it on is worse than their previous try or even the state of the other plaforms 10 years ago
worse than their previous try….? How so?
UWP is worse than GFWL, hands down.
It will be better if games for each platform will be exclusive? For example: Forza only for Xbox, Flight Simulator only for PC?
We miss you man it’s been a while 🙂 But Amega was a way better name.
I had the same problem but I fixed it search YouTube there is a fix on there
they still are .. UWP isnt PC , ist Win10 skinned xbox as a service shitte
I actually uninstalled the windows store. Got really tired of it not working 🙂 so no more games for me there until they actually make something properly (if ever)
How isn’t UWP PC? It runs games through DirectX just like Win32. It’s basicly just a wrap-up with extended features.
nah its closed xbox container limiting what you can do … you canr even access the binaries and gamefiles without messing with windows settings … all it is it MS’s next try to lock up PC with xbox containers and wraps and making it pretty much OS-level DRM
… also why the hell I must login to Xbox live when i am already loged in windows :-O
So pall it does for me as a customer are problems and unnecessary barriers for what was standard in PC gaming …… for a PC customer i dont see any part of it as an upside , only ton of downsides …
..well maybe one upside aka Play anywhere , but thats not upside for PC gamers , but only for Xbox gamers who has a PC
Get rid the thing called UWP and we will support you….
I don’t mind UWP, it makes sense when making multiplatform games. I just don’t want UWP games to only be sold on the windows store. I’d much rather buy them from anywhere else.
I love old microsoft when they mostly release their pc port on steam…but now since they create winstore and try to compete with steam….meh.
They clarified later on that that statement (every first party game will support Xbox Play Anywhere) was for the games that were shown at E3 2016.
Very true. Their initial boast to the world’s media was “Every new title published from Microsoft Studios will support Xbox Play Anywhere” but they subsequently amended it in a blog post that stated “Every new title published from Microsoft Studios that we showed onstage at E3 this year will support Xbox Play Anywhere”.
More interestingly Phil Spencer said the change in wording was to give room in the instance there’s a “unique game (that’s) not right for all devices” but his statement here in this latest article seems to contradict that. Rather than exclusivity being an implied very rare occurence his wording today suggests that exclusivity will be commonplace. Another u-turn, then.
yeah right, as if.
Did he realy said playing with controller on pc is not the same as on console? Dosent he know that more and more people are upgrading their pc and conneci them to big 4k tv on the living room and use it as a console? At least from what i read on forums more and more people are doing that. Even on my 24” 1440p 60 hz ips monitor it isa much better experience than the crapy xbox due to my 2500k and 970 and true 1440p instread of 720p low settings 512×512 textures of one.
Link? It is the same. He must be stupid if he believes such things. Most pc gamers use controlelrs for games that are not working well with keyboard and mouse like fighters .
I think it’s pretty obvious he only says those things as EXCUSES! It’s BS!
Dear Microsoft, leave now https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/6ca127290a495ef0af39cda26eb277f02070287783b298bcbbe2366f11632c37.jpg and never come back.
They never forced you to buy their games, did they?
I know right? People on this site need to start learning you don’t need to buy them. Let MS release games for people who actually want them. I really don’t understand what the problem is.
Actually they would if they could. They would make their OS exclusive to one of their games or something just like they made DX12 exclusive to windows
but but… Windows is Microsoft.
Xbox should leave not MS
windows should leave too, steamos should come and devs should use opengl instead.
New Hitman port on Ubuntu use both Vulcan and OpenGL. Performance is very good. Feral Interactive also want add Vulkan to linux port of DeusEx. https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/f07a6aeed39d8898e370e740a0f5773d08b811568cc57d559adf57cf5b3c8678.png
Absolutely top of the line hardware to play a game at 1080p and you won’t reach 100 fps with the lowest settings? That’s nowhere near good performance. I do understand the context. Hitman runs like garbage on all platforms, I know, but still.
Lol SteamOS is a joke
Now, if valve decides to work on it and devs support it.
Yes i meant vulkan sorry
Gollum! Gollum!
this is pefect
Steve Ballmer’s really let himself go!
haha, no there won’t MS, not unless you’re going to put in low effort to make some simplistic looking games like Spartan for PC and call it a day.
MS knows that they are juggling between two platforms, one of which they own and the other they used to largely cater to at one point. There is no way they are going to only nowe, make some PC exclusive games that will in no way ever touch X1 and be completely designed for the PC only. MS haven’t done such a thing for a very long time, not since AoE 3.
‘We’ re gonna have games released only on console’ ‘we’re gonna have games released only on pc’ how about releasing stuff for everyone and cutting the crap once and for all? Exclusives are cancer
Because when they said that his twitter feed exploded with the hate of a million basement dwellers angry that someone else might enjoy the same games as them, but(you may need to sit down for this) on a different system than them! OHHH THE HUMANITY!!!!
as long AS u guys release un optimized games on win 10 so we don’t need any thing from ya and one more thing we won’t upgrade to win 10 either
LMAO, I’m sure they don’t know what they’re doing. Last year they literally said there won’t be any XBOX ONE exclusive and all the games will be released on Win10 via UWP (I’m not talking about just play anywhere)
Now with the release date of Scorpio getting closer, they want to do exclusive stuff to sell consoles.
Please MS just leave PC Gaming (and PC Gamers) alone. With GWL and now UWP it became clear to me that Microsoft doesn’t care about PC gaming as much as they care about making more money and making Windows a closed and exclusive platform.
GFWL 2.0 https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/fc5cd0bbc1be69567bce40aebd40fe2a21d5a966b3969cce1e986f48cdd2b258.png
oh god not that shiiiz again
It’s even worse than the original GFWL…
Some of you have been complaining about Games For Windows Live 2.0 and we admit, it’s total garbage. So we’ve completely changed our strategy, we’re doing something totally different now. Exclusive games, DirectX13 and UNLIMITED DATA! Only available on Windows 11 in the Games For Windows Live 3.0 store!!!
~ some Microsoft executive, 2018.
I will never buy a UWP game. Microsoft just doesn’t get it.
well its the only way to push dx12 games to the limit with the pc hardware,valve also moving to pc only with their 3 games titles.
ROFL
“Play Anywhere Program allows our consoles games on PC”
“wait, only the E3 2016 line up is for Play Anywhere program”
“oops, one of the Play Anywhere program games got cancelled”
“we still love PC”
“quick reminder, we are still gonna have games only for consoles if it was not clear enough”
“don’t worry we are gonna have PC exclusives too, on our anti mod store”
Bring back Outwars & the madness series exclusive to PC! and for god’s sake! UWP is a hassle to use and slow to launch! just bring your games to steam! I will definitely buy em…
” I look at Halo Wars 2, I think it’s a good PC game.”
AHAHAHAHHAHHA stay of pc….. or gaming in general.
Halo Wars 2 doesnt even do key-rebinding correctly, its actually a fcking nightmare. How you screw up rebinding keys for AN RTS GAME OF ALL GENRES is beyond me
Totalbiscuit’s video on that issue makes for fun viewing… at Microsoft’s expense! It sure makes Phil Spencer look rather foolish for his claim that “Halo Wars 2, I think it’s a good PC game.”
What about 360 emulator on PC? Xbox one has that feature, so PC should run 360 emulator even better. Right now we have only gears of war 1 and 4 on PC, and thanks to emulator people could play missing gears of war games (and not to mention other great games).
I’d rather see the guys working on Xenia provide a Xbox 360 emulator rather than us being subjected to the same dripfeed approach MS has taken with making said console’s games available to Xbone owners via its Xbox 360 virtual machine aka another walled garden from MS.
Realistically speaking, Xenia emulator even 10 years from now will not run most games correctly, while microsoft already made working 360 emulator on xbox one because they have the design documents and stuff.
There will only be games released on console. Anyone see the U-turn?
Not a chance
Just see how he says “PC” when speaks about games that are coming exclusive to Windows 10, is windows 10 equal to “PC”? For HVD and PC peasant yes…
Precisely. Spencer’s lack of self-awareness is breathtaking. He geninely appears to believe that a game being on PC is the same thing as it,
1. being sectioned off to the Windows 10 walled garden, and
2. being sectioned off to the Windows 10 Store walled garden
Spencer/Microsoft clearly desire to make PC akin to the business model of the console industry. As far as I’m concerned, needlessly enforced Windows 10 plus Windows 10 Store exclusivity for their games is a platform in itself.
They’re not releasing PC games, they’re releasing games to a console-like eco system hosted by some Microsoft-determined PCs.
If not on steam its not on pc so I m not buying
Steam is no more “PC” than UWP is, restrictions to a specific store is bad whatever the store may be, I want my games from GOG, because I want an installer, and no online store client forced on me.
GOG exclusives would be just as bad as any other, at least CDPR don’t restrict their games to one store.
Exclusives are bad, whether it’s restricting the store, or platform.
“We’re gonna have games only released on console. And PC gaming is critically important to the company.”
Whatever happened to not building walls? I don’t WANT PC exclusives. I DON’T WANT Xbox exclusives. I just want good games released on as many platforms as possible. As a PC gamer, games being PC exclusive is not desirable to me. And games being Xbox exclusive is definitely not desirable either.
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/aa2b94741dd606178e26ac854acf63c3a9601c459ae9e1f6ab307d9699ae7dce.png
If they port Gears of War 4 to PS4 buddies, how are they gonna compete with Sony? You may thing exclusives are bs but there is a ton of people who really buy consoles for them.
Phil is a walking contradiction himself
though he has no saying on what’s exclusive and what’s not, that’s why he’s only a social media puppet to make Microsoft propaganda sound good
(and judging by that conversion, it looks staged asf
“the crapgamer” yep definitely nothing suspicious about that)
WHY DOES CRAPGAMER STILL EXIST?
I will say it again and again Microsoft only doing this for wi10 marketing they dont care about pc or us
Corps don’t care about people that’s nothing new. But gamers moved to 10 more than anyone else. The real people holding it back are enterprises which probabaly have to pay for it since they have enterprise edition which was not ugpradable for free.
and when you are in a closed network, or behind one with high security for traffic then there is very little reason to upgrade. It requires money for training, the software, the IT time to implement it, having to make sure it works with any other hardware and software the company uses, and for what? A nicer UI and a few security updates that don’t have an applicable risk to your network? I’m good…plus since windows 10 is a service, forced updates are pushed constantly. This means the IT dept is going to have to go through the trouble of disabling that or contending with updates causing compatibility problems later on with their VOIP software or whatever else.
That said, it works fine as a home OS.
“But gamers moved to 10 more than anyone else.”
Its free it promises dx12.
DX12 has been a complete letdown and giving up your privacy even more than previous versions of Windows is not “free”. Nobody gives anything good away for FREE.
“gamers moved to 10 more than anyone else”
The moral of the story: Gamers are gullible. Look at the lineup of things you can play on Win10 right now that you can’t on Win7: It’s f’in nothing. The DX11 versions of most if not all games actually run better. Win10 and DX12 are a complete joke and we STILL get idiots defending that blunder of an OS and API here all the time. Microsoft is pure cancer.
Well if you like Microsoft exclusives and don’t wanna buy Xbox, it’s a good thing to use.
I’m having some very rare problems with WIndows 10 that seem to be impossible to resolve, but I still enjoy non-glass UI they made more than 7’s GLASSHOUSE.
It doesn’t work but it looks nice and you can play Gears of War 11 on it or whatever. Glowing review.
Corporations (& Governments, for that matter) are paranoid about the security-violating portions of Microsoft Spyware 10, namely, oh, the Spyware! Also, the mandatory no-opt out update system Microsoft was dumb enough to try to shove down their throats wasn’t exactly enticing to the IT departments of the world abound.
The “real people” holding it back are the people with brains enough to realise that DX12 is a joke. The only people who moved to it are [AMD] sycophants & morons, who think DX12 is going to magically become what Microsoft was claiming it was going to be.
Everyone else has either given up & reverted, or just given in to the bullsh*t, in which case, f*ck ’em.
what a load of bull$hit
Halo MCC is still unavailable to PC, and that collection is all old and bearly selling
what he tries to sell us PCgamers, is lies, false promises and Xbox propaganda
i have zero faith in Microshaft and their UWP DRM
None of the Xbox-exclusive IPs are interesting to me. They need to create some new IPs and make those PC/Xbox exclusive. Microsoft has billions and they’re doing nothing in the gaming sector. Invest, you cheap f###s!
We will never buy xbox scorpi or any other of your consoles to play your games. You think microsoft that by not releasing your games on pc we will be forced to buy your crappy 400 euros little toy for 10 years old when we have much more poweful pc that we can upgrade at any time?! NO! We will not buy it. But by continuning making pc versions of your games and this time fully optimized(like the newly released For honor and Sniper elite 4 for example) then we will buy and play them onOUR PC not on crappy low graphics 30 fps 720p machine!! You want our money?! Then make UWP a true gaming platform (forums mods support e.t.c)release your games with high end pc feautres like suppor tfor 60-200 fps, 4k+ textures 6-10 cpu core support e.t.c! And then enjoy the money from pc gamers But if you release broken games who miss lot of pc features like quantum break then of course we dont want that. But games like Killer instict and gears war 4 where pc versions had very good optimization and all pc graphics options e.t.c then of course do it!
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How can these people be so out of touch with reality.
Age of Empires, Combat Fight Simulator, Close Combat of GTFO!
Ensemble studio is dead, I don’t think so we will ever gonna see Age of Empire 4
that will be canceled in the past, i mean before they launch
Spencer, We don’t care.
gg pcgamers.. he specifically mentioned “We’re gonna have games only released on console. And PC gaming is critically important to the company.”
there you have it. you are always an unwanted child pcgamers. come embrace the beauty of xbox.. get one today!
Right now MS is doing pretty much everything they can to phase out Windows 7 and 8, including pressuring hardware vendors to make new iterations only compatible with Windows 10. I doubt this push into PC gaming will last long after Windows 10 adoption is sufficiently high to them.
Lol bullshit. Microsoft continues to lie to our faces and give us stymied experiences, locked frame rates, low resolutions, and a continued divide between PC and console gamers. I’ll believe it when I see it, Phill Spencer.