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In an interview with PC Gamer, Kevin Unangst, the Senior Director for PC Gaming in the Xbox group, said that the goal for he and his team are to do nothing else "other than support Steam.""Games for Windows was a prior approach where it was more, at that time, like 'how do we take things?'" he said, "We knew we wanted to help make great multiplayer, we knew we wanted to bring things over... but it wasn't the right approach. It was the approach of 'let's just take those things and transplant them'."
With the launch of Windows 10 and a renewed push to unify Xbox and PC into one huge ecosystem, it's a busy time for Microsoft. PC gamers who had to put up with the old Games for Windows system have cause to be cynical, however. Will the refreshed Windows Store included with Windows 10 be any different, and is Microsoft planning to use the Windows userbase to challenge Steam?
No—at least not according to Unangst: "We are not intending to compete with Steam," he told me, "If anything, we want Steam to be even more successful—they've done great things for PC gamers in terms of having a single store.
"Over time do we want more developers to come over to our store and offer it in addition to Steam? Absolutely. Is competition good for people? Absolutely. But our goal right now isn't to do anything else other than support Steam and help it run great on Windows 10."
With the launch of Windows 10 and a renewed push to unify Xbox and PC into one huge ecosystem, it's a busy time for Microsoft. PC gamers who had to put up with the old Games for Windows system have cause to be cynical, however. Will the refreshed Windows Store included with Windows 10 be any different, and is Microsoft planning to use the Windows userbase to challenge Steam?
No—at least not according to Unangst: "We are not intending to compete with Steam," he told me, "If anything, we want Steam to be even more successful—they've done great things for PC gamers in terms of having a single store.
"Over time do we want more developers to come over to our store and offer it in addition to Steam? Absolutely. Is competition good for people? Absolutely. But our goal right now isn't to do anything else other than support Steam and help it run great on Windows 10."
So, what exactly does this mean for the games and actual support coming from Microsoft? No idea. It would be nice to see those Xbox exclusives actually come to PC, even if they're Windows 10 exclusive, but outside of Gears of War, who knows what we can really expect to see.
Of course, this very well could just be a bunch of hot air given Microsoft's track record of promising to support PC gaming and then actually doing next to nothing.
Steam will run great then, but how about the games?
I'm being facetious, but only because i'm still using Windows 7 and watching games be announced with the platforms "Xbox One, PS4, Windows 10 and Steam" is real stupid, if support for every other operating system on PC is covered by the Steam name, then it's probably where the support SHOULD be.