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Quantum Break coming to PC and Xbox simultaneously on April 5th (?)
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Lightning Count
Member
Day one, Remedy will deliver the goods.
The show is part of the game not a real stand alone thing. Like you I own all of the machines and a PC because of exclusives. And as such I can say how it effects my thinking in how it makes Xbox look.
In other words, having exclusive content on a platform makes said platform more appealing which drives console sales, or at least Nintendo and Sony believe that to be true.
Emmmmm....nope.
If you have the ability you could get it cheaper if you switch xbl region.
SaucyJack
Member
And Fable and Sea of Thieves and Cuphead.
What is genuinely exclusive on Xbox these days? HALO, Gears, Forza? Anything else?
Genuine question as I've been on the brink of adding an XBO for a while but given I have PC and PS4 I'm wondering if it's worth it.
texhnolyze
Banned
Uh huh.. Looks legit.
So, we'll get the official announcement in 2 hours or so?
Interesting move from Microsoft.
So, we'll get the official announcement in 2 hours or so?
Interesting move from Microsoft.
Auto-Reply
Member
Windows store only? No thank you, not falling for that!
If there's one thing MS does right when it comes to digital, it's that their UK prices are somewhat respectable.
Except mainline Forza, for some reason.
GhostTrick
Banned
Installation is the least of the problems. And yes, when it comes to PC gaming, people don't trust MS ecosystem. Tell that to all the people who just lost their GFLW games bought on the GFLW store because they can't download it anymore.
ISee
Member
Oh wow, I seriously had the feeling the show was a serious standalone thing... now I'm a tiny bit disappointed.
Hydrargyrus
Member
I know this is the best for users (me included) and Remedy, but MS is killing its own device with these things.
Locuza
Member
PC Games Hardware:
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So in roughly two hours (+20 Minutes) it should be official.
http://www.pcgameshardware.de/Quantum-Break-Spiel-15745/News/zeitgleich-fuer-PC-und-Xbox-One-1185880/
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So in roughly two hours (+20 Minutes) it should be official.
fair enough.
Microsoft believes too, PC version doesn't change the "console exclusive" appeal.
You really think that if Xbone wasn't bombing as it is, MS would have started simultaneously releasing all of its exclusive games* on PC?
LOL
* Except of course for the holy trinity of IPs which are Xbox-synonyms to them: Halo, Forza and Gears.
Well, you either can try to build a successful new IP here or launch to a very limited audience on a hardware that its fortune is very unlikely to change too much from now until its end of life in a few years.
The up side is that you might have a popular IP on your hand that lives on beyond an specific hardware and can be brought back in future an become a franchise or you can risk just wasting your investment and flush it all down the drain. I feel having more strong IPs are more valuable to them than maybe selling some more of that hardware right now. But it's still a win10 store game, so that's kind of a problem...
The up side is that you might have a popular IP on your hand that lives on beyond an specific hardware and can be brought back in future an become a franchise or you can risk just wasting your investment and flush it all down the drain. I feel having more strong IPs are more valuable to them than maybe selling some more of that hardware right now. But it's still a win10 store game, so that's kind of a problem...
Not 100% true, Sony leveraging Smart Sony/Samsung TV Market with PS NOW to get more customers to play their games, like last of us, uncharted and god of war. In a couple years PlayStation 4 games will be on it as well.
AnthonypUK
Member
No they are not.
Talking about Xbox as a platform is all well and good, but Microsoft's console bank comes from the slice of money they get for every 3rd party game they sell on their platform, and Xbox live gold subs.
You give people any incentive not to buy a console - then you are potentially looking at console sales loss, a Xbox live subs loss and missing out on that 3rd party money.
looking at it the other way, if they don't care about that stuff and just want "xbox live " as a platform, why would you need hardware?
cripterion
Member
This!
Still keeping my Xbox in the living room as a Youtube/Netflix/insert other app machine.
And this all they would've never gotten from people that game on PC primarily.
The Dutch Slayer
Member
wow did not expect a day and date in a million years wow if true! :O
I bought my XO because I wanted to play QB on the platform it came out first.
I knew it was coming to PC later but never in my wildest dreams imagined it to be same day release! :O
I bought my XO because I wanted to play QB on the platform it came out first.
I knew it was coming to PC later but never in my wildest dreams imagined it to be same day release! :O
Maximilian Kolbe
Member
I never believe these people will buy Xbone since beginning.
Typing words is way more easy than click the buy button.
Clear and concise.
Nailed it.
Eh, they are reporting on the news. And there were no "breaking news" announced. Previews and a new trailer were, though.
Either official or in two hours all of our hopes and dreams will be dead.
Xbox One is doing better than 360, so I don't know what you talking about, but the current strategy makes total sense.
In fact was a big mistake MS focusing too much on X360 after the Games for Windows Live fiasco, they shouldn't have waited so long to try again.
CyberPunked
Member
That just shows how this is a pro consumer move. We aren't forced to buy a console just for a game that would be better on PC.
AnthonypUK
Member
yet you have people in this very thread who are saying they now it saves them buying an Xbox.
There is still a chance that this was supposed to be announced at the Xbox/W10 event coming in 2 weeks or so.
abracadaver
Member
Alan Wake as pre-order bonus sounds like it is coming to Steam
Yup, that's my thinking. Today preview day, then boom.
And now they get access to all the people with high end PCs, not just those that might have possibly bought an Xbone.
Chobel
Member
First of all, RoTTR is not MS game. Second, you can't just port a game to PC in just 3 months.
More like BC version for XBO.
AnthonypUK
Member
hehe really?
Really, that's a simple fact.
You really think they would've somehow startet buying all that if they buy the console to play one or two exclusives?
And they couldn't work on PC version in parallel?
>_<
ISee
Member
yes, but according to the article they're unsure if the pre-order bonus applies to the PC version and not just the Xbox version.