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by pjmlp
3048 days ago
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1. Not everyone is rich enough to buy flaghship phones. 2. Lots of gamers just use XBox or PS4 (no Vulkan there). And on PC, not everyone uses Steam. Plus Microsoft already started to be more agressive regarding games on Windows 10, with Age of Empires remaster being the first example. 3. Well it is a matter of taste, not everyone craves for FPS, then there is also the small matter that Vulkan is not supported on XBox anyway, while DX 12 is. With much better developer tooling. |
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2. Age of Empires is Microsoft's game in the first place. Of course they will want their assets to use their technologies. 3rd party adoption is a rounding error. On the PC, except for 1) hardcore indie games players and 2) games locked to the publisher's platform, everyone uses Steam. In the second case, where the games are exclusive to a publishing platforms (Origin, Uplay), they have similar attitude to Windows store as Steam.
Windows store is an existential threat to them. They will ignore it as long as possible.
3. Sure, that's why I mentioned The Talos Principle (a puzzle game). Xbox API will be handled exactly as PS API is.