Efter att det utannonserats att Halo Wars 2 ska komma till Xbox One och Windows 10 (något som även gäller titlar som Killer Instinct och Gears of War: Ultimate Edition), verkar det som att Microsoft återigen är redo att satsa på datorer som spelformat. Men samtidigt finns det många spel som inte gör det och i PC Gamer svarar Xbox-chefen Phil Spencer på varför exempelvis Quantum Break inte är aktuellt för PC:
"In the case of things like Scalebound or Crackdown or Quantum Break, you know, just to be completely honest with you, we started those games before we really looked at expanding into Windows in the way that I wanted to bring as part of becoming head of Xbox.
Gong to those teams mid-cycle and saying: ‘Hey, by the way, I want to add a platform,' didn't really feel like necessarily the best way to end up with the best result for the game. They had a path that they were on. It's not to say those games could never come to Windows, but right now we're on the path to finish the great games that they've started, and I want that to be the case. These games are on a path, whereas with, like, Halo Wars 2 I had the opportunity from the beginning, when we're sitting down with the studio, to say, ‘Here's the target. Here's what we wanna go do.'
Even with Gears, like the Gears 1 remake, we thought about framerate, we thought about multiplayer. The opportunity to bring it to Windows in a refreshed way felt like a great opportunity from the beginning. I'm trying to be more deliberate in the choices that we make."
Kort sagt, Crackdown 3, Quantum Break och Scalebound kommer bara till Xbox One, men det är inte helt uteslutet att de släpps till PC någon gång i framtiden.
