Phil Spencer says Microsoft's PC-heavy lineup this year is 'historical' and an 'anomaly', so don't get used to it
Phil Spencer says Microsoft's PC-heavy lineup this year is 'historical' and an 'anomaly', so don't get used to it
"We want our games playable across as many screens as possible."
Microsoft had a lineup of games this year?
I've been used to PC gaming for decades now, it's far too late for that Phil.
The title makes this sound like it's going to be less common that they'll be releasing games on PC, but in case anyone skips the article it's actually in regards to PC-exclusive content
Totilo points out to Spencer that three of Microsoft's nine releases in this period are PC-only (The War Within, Towerborne in early access, and Ara: History Untold), and asks whether this is a new norm for Microsoft.
"No," says Spencer. "This is historical. There might always be some anomalies, but I look at those three as an anomaly. We want our games playable across as many screens as possible. We think about the Xbox platform as the Xbox console, PC and cloud. We want all the games playable across all of those. We want them to be Play Anywhere."
I think calling this pc heavy is really really generous.
The War Within is an expansion for an MMO, yeah it is pc only, but there is also no expectations for it to be released on console. Maybe WoW will see some port now MS owns it?
Towerborne is coming to Xbox. I am pretty sure the only reason it isn't yet, is because of early access, and the Xbox having stricter rules for pushing updates? It is coming to Xbox, when it isn't a paid beta
And finally, I am surprised Ara didn't get a console launch. A quick search shows one is coming after launch, but no dates or anything outside of sometime after PC.
Outside of the WoW expansion, these are only temporary exclusives, and one of them is early access. I will admit, I actually thought Ara released on Xbox, so was genuinely surprised to find it wasn't(yet).