Can't believe you have no idea who Jim Sterling is. How old are you bruh?

Dude.... JIM motherloving STERLING!

Detructoid, The Escapist, now independent.

Poor Chip :3

Maybe, just maybe, MS should wait saying anything about something new until they can be 100% clear about it.

Lately there have been a lot of "Phil explains what he/they meant by...." moments...

Also, even if they change it to support fullscreen mode, SLI, FPS counters, etc. it will still be way more restrictive than a non-UWP game. Like with the ability to change files will make modding rather impossible unless MS allows it in another restrictive way. I understand why they want to do the files thing, since it also prevents cheating, but it's a huge change to what PC gamers are used to and indeed with MS their track record I feel it's understandable that people fear it.
Who knows what they are going to do next, the next iteration of DirectX might even only be available for UWP games making sure all the other stores like Steam can close up shop. Heck, I wouldn't really be surprised if they are already planning for that but want to introduce it slowly...

So you want journalists to simply ignore previews?

What they say in this video is how it is now, Phil talks about UWP, this video tells what the current drawbacks are, then Phil swoops in to tell everyone that they are going to change several of those drawbacks. Why not do that straight away? It feels weird, it sounds like they didn't think things through which is weird for such a huge company...

Maybe they do it to test the waters, to see what people think of it and react accordingly, could very well be it, but it still feels odd...

I agree that there is a lot of pessimism going around lately, way too much negative stuff being written about, but still, I can see why some people are reluctant to be optimistic.

For me, well, I can see the positive sides like cheating being harder to do when you can't change the files of UWP games, cross-play, Live achievements, etc. creating a more console like environment on the PC, but on the other hand I can see the negative sides as well like modding being more difficult too when you can't modify files, apparently restrictions on graphics capabilities (hence the for now no SLI, no fullscreen, etc.), etc., plus the fact that MS can basically force game developers to use UWP (now or in the future) by enabling certain features only for UWP games makes me get rather mixed feelings about all of this...

The stock mark is what makes Microsoft remarkable, They have convinced every institutional and retail investor to just keep piling money into them. Like many big tech giants they are just a big growing pyramid scheme. As long as people keep dropping money into ETF's that cover the market Microsoft will always be liquid. At the same time it is completely stifling innovation and competition. People need to start being more discreet in how they invest their money as it's killing the system.

Riiiiight because people will just flock back to them for one or two games per year.

15+ years of bad performance is what they call irreparable in business. It is time for them to sell off the assets and get out of entertainment.

Let me be clear. This is sarcasm