reinking
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That only works if you stay in a PC ecosystem. It will be truer when you can play Steam games on Xbox consoles. Unless you mean literally, in that case, you can take your Steam Deck pretty much anywhere.
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That only works if you stay in a PC ecosystem. It will be truer when you can play Steam games on Xbox consoles. Unless you mean literally, in that case, you can take your Steam Deck pretty much anywhere.
DeltaPolarBear
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It doesn't matter what player think, because players are beneficiaries here. What matters is that major Third Party AAA studios have no more interest in Play Anywhere now that Xbox platform is shrinking.
The less copies of Xbox titles are sold, the less it makes sense for third parties to support Play Anywhere. Because Play Anywhere is directly affecting the sales of the PC versions of the same games. The bottom line is that Third Parties LOSE MONEY from joining Play Anywhere.
The less copies of Xbox titles are sold, the less it makes sense for third parties to support Play Anywhere. Because Play Anywhere is directly affecting the sales of the PC versions of the same games. The bottom line is that Third Parties LOSE MONEY from joining Play Anywhere.
DeepEnigma
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This Is an Xbox - Xbox Wire
Our new campaign, This Is an Xbox, invites people to play with Xbox across multiple devices and screens.
news.xbox.com
Checkmate
j0hnnix
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This Is an Xbox - Xbox Wire
Our new campaign, This Is an Xbox, invites people to play with Xbox across multiple devices and screens.
Checkmate
Bernkastel
Ask me about my fanboy energy!
Both Xbox and Xbox on PC use the GDK api, so they are essentially Xbox console games on PC.
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No i mean same thing as microsoft. Im on my PC and play my games and then i can play them while taking a shit on my steam deck because unlike xbox, on steam it's the default.That only works if you stay in a PC ecosystem. It will be truer when you can play Steam games on Xbox consoles. Unless you mean literally, in that case, you can take your Steam Deck pretty much anywhere.
Goalus
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Wrong. It's a Playstation.This is an Xbox
Kvally
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It has increased sales for some games. Developers have stated this for their respective games.
Kvally
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This is an Xbox
Bernkastel
Ask me about my fanboy energy!
Indie devs will say anything for that Microsoft money.
DenchDeckard
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You know what annoyed me about this?
I and many have been saying play anywhere is a great service for years and MS just ignored it, let it get worse and put all their eggs into gamepass.
thwy should have been pushing play anywhere this hard years ago.
I and many have been saying play anywhere is a great service for years and MS just ignored it, let it get worse and put all their eggs into gamepass.
thwy should have been pushing play anywhere this hard years ago.
Did you cancel your gamepass too?
Now that MS are chasing game sales again and gamepass has a bit of a bad rep we get all this Play Anywhere marketing from them for a feature they introduced in 2016. I expect a lot of forum shills and MS themselves to be trying to push this as the most amazing feature now because the marching orders require MS to compete with their store and not be pushing gamepass as much.
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Kvally
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Ok Mr know it all. My god it's all about console wars for some of you. Remember when gaming was about having fun and well gaming? Pepperidge Farms remembers.
Kvally
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They haven't confirmed that the Xbox Next plays steam games. As of now it's only been confirmed that it plays native Xbox games.
adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
PA will be applicable for the console-only releases afterward and also will still continue to retroactively work on the decade(?) worth of PA releases that folks already have tied to their accounts without needing to repurchase them.
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Yes.
Kacho
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If the next Xbox is just a PC then Play Anywhere stops mattering since all you're playing is PC games.
The quality of the Xbox PC experience and the games available vs Steam will determine where people buy games IMO.
cireza
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This. Betting on a MegaDrive release.
Sooner
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I'm not on my death bed, so I'm better than Xbox, at least.
Zekra Dezivad
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Just like GP increased sales, right?
laynelane
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I'm still buying games for PS4 and have noticed many come with a free PS5 version. It says that on the back of the physical RE4 remake game I recently bought and an Atlus game I was looking at in the store. I know some games charged for a PS5 version at the beginning of the generation, but that doesn't seem to be a thing any longer.
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Tobimacoss
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You have it backwards, they are essentially PC games on Console. GDK isn't an API, it's the entire dev kit. It uses the Windows API aka Win32. Xbox ecosystem games are MSIXVC packaged Win32 games for PC, Console, Cloud.
It's an ecosystem thing. The hardcore Xbox userbase wants Play Anywhere regardless of what other ecosystems may have. Xbox versions will be optimized for the hardware.
The next gen Xbox Console is a Console. Stated multiple times to be a Console. If it was just a PC, then they wouldn't need $1k+ Magnus, they could release PC consoles at any price point. It will have Console SKUs optimized for the fixed spec hardware.
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