Not many have but RE7 and Shadow of War are both nice titles that went that route. I bet we see more now and again but they're not exactly going to be flooding the market.

Most big publishers have their own online PC distribution stores after all (Ubi and EA for example but most others have smaller scale stores too). Capcom, WB, and a few other sizable publishers might test the waters but none of the major publishers will. Most will be smaller games but any game I can get two copies of for the price of one is good in my book.

Of course it failed. Companies will not stop charging for the game on XBO and charging again on PC.

Play Anywhere is garbage.

Is anyone really surprised by this? Big AAA publishers will want you to buy the game twice. I noticed a lot of AAA publishers have not even bothered putting there titles on the Windows 10 store in the first place never mind take part in the play anywhere program.

Doesn't help that Microsoft isn't even supporting it very much since their first party games have been so weak.

Not surprising. Not only do the games need to be developed as twins for PC and Xbox, but then the PC version needs to be straitjacketed into the Microsoft Store, with all its walled-garden issues and restrictions.

Resident evil 7
Capcom must be a small game studio i guess.

Problems

1. Good idea but its missing a good opportunity by using Windows 7 and 8 in the equation. Steam could work well too since downloading and updating on Steam is smooth.

2. More first party games to bolster the selection. Yeah I know Forza Gears etc but we need top notch 1st party to make the program a splash. Halo 6 for example

3. Turn the service on its head. Get exclusive PC games onto X1 faster.

It's no different than Sony's Cross Play/ Cross Buy program on Vita. They're technically giving away two versions/ copies of the same game for the price of one. Very few developers/ publishers would want to do that, hence why we're basically only going to see third parties do it.

Capcom?

Aside windows that has no competition, every thing ms does fail

Play anywhere was one of ms feeble attempt to combat the PS4. This came out after their biggest lineup in history and QB did jack for them. QB being one of the first game on this program.

Truth is MS was never serious about it. It was just a way to cover how bad they were doing and save face by trying to claim ownership of the PC gaming market.

We all knew this and many Xbox fans were adamant that MS does in fact own the PC gaming market and it was a good move.

Well now this is not useful anymore especially after Scorpio was announced. Now its all about Scorpio and how the beast will reclaim the top spot (Xbox never came first in any gen btw) from Sony.

It's is hilarious to see.

Tell me again how the multiplatform strategy was supposed to fix everything. Look at your results and compare them to Nintendo, which keeps thriving with exclusives. Your loyal fans are gone. And let’s not forget the pile of IPs you purchased only to let them rot.

The worst thing is this is down from last years numbers/expectations which was down from the previous years numbers/expectations. You think about how long “down” has been a consistent part of the communication and you realize those subscriptions are what’s holding that boat together. The price cut of gamespass is still a price raise in a string of price raises. They are trying to use players to offset the missing revenue. Now call of duty is out of gamespass, which is literally WHY they bought the company. To draw people to the subscription. They realized they missed a boatload of money and that wasn’t sustainable. Now you pay for it like you would have if they never bought the company… so why buy the company? Mind you those billions still need to be paid back. Yeah it gives you a chance to say we make the biggest FPS… but the internal conversations must be brutal at high level on topics that really matter. Like revenue. Profitability. And ROI for the shopping spree.

Is this like the 10th quarter in a row they're down 33% on hardware how is that even mathematically possible. You would think their mediocrity would Plateau