Vapourware Microsoft want to get into PC gaming again

[Angthoron]

Aren't man dates more of an Apple thing though?

 

[GrainWetski]

At least they realize their console is a failure and they need the sales on PC. Too bad the games are 99% shit.

 

[Unkillable Cat]

That's nice, as long as they aren't broken messes like Quantum Break.

They'll also use UWP, meaning no .EXE file, no mod support allowed, no user-end graphic customization.

In short you'll be turning your PC into a console.

Read the thread.

 

[Perkel]

Well it is not like their games will be relevant if they will use Windows store.

Moment when MS also will go for Store everywhere will be the moment when EU will use their asses as personal washing mashine for EUs black dick.

 

[Martius]

Hopefully. Maybe then we could avoid another situation like Games for Windows (not) Live.

 

[adrix89]

Microsoft only has One chance.

Make their system so hack proof that it works with multiplayer games.

If they could do that they would have a big advantage in the PC Gaming market.
Consequently if UWP ever gets hacked it would be garbage.

 

[LESS T_T]

http://www.theverge.com/2016/6/7/11874792/first-click-microsoft-could-turn-every-pc-into-an-xbox

Microsoft is currently working on a secret project internally, codenamed Helix. Kotakuoriginally reported on the Project Helix name, and the work is designed to more closely combine Xbox and Windows 10. Some of that work has started, but more of it is due later this year and next year with future upgrades to Windows 10. Microsoft wants to enable features like streaming PC games to the Xbox One, but sources familiar with the company's plans also tell us there are greater ambitions to make Xbox One games playable on a PC without needing a console for streaming.

Part of this could involve bringing the full Xbox One UI and system directly into desktop versions of Windows 10. The latest Xbox One dashboards are built on top of Windows 10, so most of the work involved would be customizing the interface towards keyboard and mouse. Bringing the Xbox One UI over to Windows 10 machines would effectively turn every PC into an Xbox One, especially if they're also capable of running the latest console games.

If Xbox One games are truly playable on PCs, then this approach also boosts Microsoft's Universal App platform and the ability to offer a single store purchase that will work across PCs and consoles.

Microsoft will talk more about its Windows 10 and Xbox One integration next week at E3. Last year, the company surprised many with the backwards compatibility announcement of Xbox 360 games running on Xbox One. Microsoft is expected to announce an Xbox One "slim" console next week, potentially detail a future hardware upgrade codenamed "Scorpio," and launch two new streaming "Xbox TV" devices. If Microsoft’s ambition is to combine Xbox One and PC gaming, then any hardware announced might be overshadowed by software at this year’s E3.

 

[Unkillable Cat]

The X-Box is already the worst thing to happen to gaming - no need to make it any worse.

 

[GrainWetski]

The X-Box is already the worst thing to happen to gaming - no need to make it any worse.

Microsoft will stop at nothing to save their shitty console. Killing Windows gaming entirely? No problem!

 

[Atlantico]

Microsoft will stop at nothing to save their shitty console. Killing Windows gaming entirely? No problem!

I suspect the long term strategy is kinda the exact opposite, Microsoft doesn't see a future in consoles (as we know them) and will kill the Xbox as a product entirely. Windows 10 will be the One platform to rule them all and console-like hardware will run Windows 10 games.

One Windows to rule them all. From phones to mainframe servers and everything in between.

 

[InD_ImaginE]

Fuck Windows 10. I will most likely quit PC gaming as a whole if somehow Microsoft manage to get enough leverage that new games need to be built only for Windows 10 or newer (something like mandatory DX12 perhaps?). Or perhaps just fucking pirate everything.
Buying digital products today feels less and less like owning the actual product and more like buying license from whoever sold it. Especially Microsoft with Windows 10 and UWP. Only god knows how the fuck people in America who cries muh freedom muh freedom are not saying shit about this business practices.

 

[Atlantico]

Buying digital products today feels less and less like owning the actual product and more like buying license from whoever sold it. Especially Microsoft with Windows 10 and UWP. Only god knows how the fuck people in America who cries muh freedom muh freedom are not saying shit about this business practices.

That's true, and Steam is nowhere more popular than in the USA.

And I don't think it is because Americans don't like freedom, they do, it's that Steam and the like have managed to convince people they're actually buying a game from them - when in reality they're just getting a virtual licence to play the game with online electronic monitoring attached at all times.

 

[tormund]

MS confirmed that Scalebound is coming to PC, so it looks like those rumors about cross-releases for upcoming Xbox exclusives are true after all. Win 10/Win Store only, obviously, "luckily" game itself isn't looking all that hot.

 

[Astral Rag]

Gears of War 4 is Cross-Buy and Cross-Play with Windows 10

Gears of War 4 will have both Cross-Buy and Cross-Play support with Windows 10, Microsoft announced at its E3 press conference moments ago.

Buy it on one platform and you automatically get it on the other. All modes will be compatible with each other in co-op, including the new Hoard mode. Achievements will carry over as well.

We then saw the following video of the game's campaign. Note the new gun that shoots saw blades, Kait's non-chainsaw bayonet, and a grizzled Marcus Fenix looking a couple of decades older.

inb4 the next UWA fiasco

 

[GrainWetski]

Forza Horizon 3 is also coming. 30 FPS on shite and 60 on PC of course.

They've finally stopped pretending they can save the One with exclusives.

 

[tormund]

If we can expect same "quality" PC versions like it was the case with Quantum Break and Gears HD, then stable 60 fps is questionable even with beefiest rigs.

 

[Blaine]

http://www.theverge.com/2016/6/7/11874792/first-click-microsoft-could-turn-every-pc-into-an-xbox

Microsoft is currently working on a secret project internally, codenamed Helix. Kotakuoriginally reported on the Project Helix name, and the work is designed to more closely combine Xbox and Windows 10.

Considering how Microsoft tries to force users to upgrade to Windows 10 from Windows 7, will they break down my door and try to give me an XBox One also?

 

[Metro]

Buying digital products today feels less and less like owning the actual product and more like buying license from whoever sold it. Especially Microsoft with Windows 10 and UWP. Only god knows how the fuck people in America who cries muh freedom muh freedom are not saying shit about this business practices.

That's true, and Steam is nowhere more popular than in the USA.

And I don't think it is because Americans don't like freedom, they do, it's that Steam and the like have managed to convince people they're actually buying a game from them - when in reality they're just getting a virtual licence to play the game with online electronic monitoring attached at all times.

No, it's because people don't really give a shit about something so trivial as 'game ownership.' If for some reason the servers go belly up there's this thing called the internet and torrents. Only other issue is reselling a game and who does that anymore?

 

[Bustamonte]

They never really got into it in the first place.

 

[J_C]

Forza Horizon 3 is also coming. 30 FPS on shite and 60 on PC of course.

They've finally stopped pretending they can save the One with exclusives.

And that is the best news from this years E3. Forza on PC! :mrpresident:

 

[Declinator]

Forza Horizon 3 is also coming. 30 FPS on shite and 60 on PC of course.

They've finally stopped pretending they can save the One with exclusives.

And that is the best news from this years E3. Forza on PC! :mrpresident:

But Forza 6 Apex for PC was announced months ago and has been in beta for a while...

 

[J_C]

Forza Horizon 3 is also coming. 30 FPS on shite and 60 on PC of course.

They've finally stopped pretending they can save the One with exclusives.

And that is the best news from this years E3. Forza on PC! :mrpresident:

But Forza 6 Apex for PC was announced months ago and has been in beta for a while...

Eh, Apex is almost like a demo AFAIK, it misses a lot of things from Forza on consoles. That's why I didn't bother with it.

 

[Atlantico]

No, it's because people don't really give a shit about something so trivial as 'game ownership.' If for some reason the servers go belly up there's this thing called the internet and torrents. Only other issue is reselling a game and who does that anymore?

In my experience people say they "own" games on Steam. So they care or at least seem to care about ownership, it's just that they think they own something when the actually do not.

 

[Infinitron]

 

[adrix89]

We don't 'stand.