I will try and explain why I think this is bad for the Xbox One. Just my opinion. Sorry for typos and misspellings, bad grammar, lack of punctuation etc etc I am on my phone waiting for a train.
Microsoft budgets money towards Xbox One. You have people who support it. They pay money to develop for it. Market it, produce it, get new developers etc etc. QB was going to be exclusive to the Xbox One. If you recall back in Xbox 360 days they had a ton of exclusives. Next to none were released on PC. The games sold like mad. The new CEO currently, he wasn't CEO at that time but he voted to sell off the Xbox division when it was hot. In releasing QB on PC as well now, I know many see it as a happy opportunity to make more money. This could be the truth. But to me, IMO. It looks like MS is not confident they will make back the cost on the game. This game has been in development quite awhile and has cost a lot of money. To me, IMO, this lack of confidence in Xbox One is forcing this move. This deal is also in my opinion a lack of confidence in Xbox One because I feel that if they just announced the game on PC they would have lost a big percentage of what the projected sales were. They already were not good enough to warrant a exclusive for Xbox one alone. As an example for sales let's use forza 2 that came out in 2007 on the 360. 2 years into the console. It sold in just the year it released 3+ million. An example of sales on Xbox One is Forza 6 that came out 2 years into Xbox One life cycle it has sold 1.2 million. These numbers are just the information I can dig up and they can be construed based on many factors. Microsoft knows exactly the numbers. Just using these numbers to show why I feel a lack of confidence. Also Forza 5 launch title has sold only 2.14 mil. on Xbox one. I think Microsoft announced this deal. Quite vaguely at that, and only to prevent what I think would have been a bunch of pre-order cancellations on Xbox One moved to PC. So what is pretty clear IMO is the Xbox One is struggling. The fact that it's coming out on Xbox One and you get the PC as well. Sound good but it's the same game and it will (if developed properly) perform and look much better on PC. I am just one example but I am not the only one that has decided not to buy the Xbox One game and instead buy the PC game. So I myself represent 1 loss sale. We can speculate the percentage that would be like me. But why bother. Microsoft still has to pay money to produce the Xbox One version of the game. The internals of Xbox One though very PC like are not as simple due to Esram, slower graphics memory. Will the sales of the game cover the process of porting to Xbox One or PC. Only MS knows. I don't think Xbox One will be gone tomorrow. But is the Xbox One covering its budget? I think it is a very good chance Xbox One will become an afterthought. And that is why I believe this is bad news for Xbox One and its budget and its fans. I also feel the required specs are padded on PC so people can use that as a defense when confronted with a much nicer looking version on PC.
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I will try and explain why I think this is bad for the Xbox One. Just my opinion. Sorry for typos and misspellings, bad grammar, lack of punctuation etc etc I am on my phone waiting for a train.
Microsoft budgets money towards Xbox One. You have people who support it. They pay money to develop for it. Market it, produce it, get new developers etc etc. QB was going to be exclusive to the Xbox One. If you recall back in Xbox 360 days they had a ton of exclusives. Next to none were released on PC. The games sold like mad. The new CEO currently, he wasn't CEO at that time but he voted to sell off the Xbox division when it was hot. In releasing QB on PC as well now, I know many see it as a happy opportunity to make more money. This could be the truth. But to me, IMO. It looks like MS is not confident they will make back the cost on the game. This game has been in development quite awhile and has cost a lot of money. To me, IMO, this lack of confidence in Xbox One is forcing this move. This deal is also in my opinion a lack of confidence in Xbox One because I feel that if they just announced the game on PC they would have lost a big percentage of what the projected sales were. They already were not good enough to warrant a exclusive for Xbox one alone. As an example for sales let's use forza 2 that came out in 2007 on the 360. 2 years into the console. It sold in just the year it released 3+ million. An example of sales on Xbox One is Forza 6 that came out 2 years into Xbox One life cycle it has sold 1.2 million. These numbers are just the information I can dig up and they can be construed based on many factors. Microsoft knows exactly the numbers. Just using these numbers to show why I feel a lack of confidence. Also Forza 5 launch title has sold only 2.14 mil. on Xbox one. I think Microsoft announced this deal. Quite vaguely at that, and only to prevent what I think would have been a bunch of pre-order cancellations on Xbox One moved to PC. So what is pretty clear IMO is the Xbox One is struggling. The fact that it's coming out on Xbox One and you get the PC as well. Sound good but it's the same game and it will (if developed properly) perform and look much better on PC. I am just one example but I am not the only one that has decided not to buy the Xbox One game and instead buy the PC game. So I myself represent 1 loss sale. We can speculate the percentage that would be like me. But why bother. Microsoft still has to pay money to produce the Xbox One version of the game. The internals of Xbox One though very PC like are not as simple due to Esram, slower graphics memory. Will the sales of the game cover the process of porting to Xbox One or PC. Only MS knows. I don't think Xbox One will be gone tomorrow. But is the Xbox One covering its budget? I think it is a very good chance Xbox One will become an afterthought. And that is why I believe this is bad news for Xbox One and its budget and its fans. I also feel the required specs are padded on PC so people can use that as a defense when confronted with a much nicer looking version on PC.
Just my opinion.