Microsoft has had a rocky road when bringing games to PC but according to Phil Spencer, they will be releasing more games on Steam. Phil Spencer was on the GiantBomb livestream yesterday and talked a bit about Steam and Microsoft’s future on PC gaming.
“I look at Steam today, it’s on an incredible growth trajectory. It’s a massive force in gaming; a positive force. I think it will be bigger a year from now than it is today. And five years later it will still be bigger again,” he said. “I look at Valve as an important for us on Windows. They are a critical part of gaming’s success on Windows. I don’t think Valve’s hurt by not having our first-party games in their store right now. They’re doing incredible well. We will ship games on Steam again.”
He also brought up the fact that he would like to make his own store on PC saying “I want to build a store; there’s no doubt about that.”
Speaking a bit more about the problems with recent releases on the Windows Store and Steam, in general, he said “They all haven’t gone swimmingly. Some of them have gone well, Forza 6 Apex did well. Quantum Break wasn’t our best PC release. Killer Instinct did well on PC. Gears of War Ultimate Edition was OK–we definitely learned there.”
“There’s going to be areas where we cooperate and there’s going to be areas where we compete. The end result is better for gamers.”
Personally, I think working with Steam is a good idea to help jumpstart games on PC but I do think that a “Windows 10 Store” will definitely be the way to expand and help the overall idea of the fully connected Windows platform in the future.
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Source: GameSpot
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