Microsoft doesn't do as well when they have competition. They're doing great with operating systems and enterprise software, but everything else, they have to compete, and their struggle is apparent.

As a PC gamer I’ve found they’re doing a better job today than they’ve been doing for the last decade and they’re continuing to improve. Still a ways to go but it’s a start

as PC gamer I can say they are at least trying to make the games playable on both platform and I give them respect for that if they can release good playable games then I have no problem supporting them but I do wish that they would release a few of those games on steam after a certain amount of time I would be even happier if we got the chance to mod some of these games like state of decay I cant play it without mods.

I'd say it's UWP. Devs are probably developing with console in mind with the idea that UWP will scale the game over to PC and maybe that's not working properly or as intuitively as designed. Just a guess of course.

What?
The games runs without any major or game-breaking bugs (savegame-loss, crashes, ...). It runs flawlessly on most computers. If it doesn't maybe you should consider to decrease some graphics-sliders.
It may not run optimal on every configuration, but which PC-game does that?
The game just works, and developers will still optimize it, when it is out.

Microsoft didn't design a store for AAA games but for apps. That is what Windows Store is primarily for.

It's just an app store and wasn't meant for full 100GB AAA games like Forza 7. It was retrofitted to accept these types of games and it just isn't working.

When your foundation is on rocky ground and faulty everything else will be too. I've already uninstalled Windows Store as I'll never support something like this from Microsoft. Their store is out in the wilderness on it's own and isn't included in the PC gaming ecosystem.

I have several game launcher/stores I use on PC and I don't see the Windows Store as one of them. Paying £50+, limited modding and no way to access the folder you just dlownloaded is not what I call a PC game but a retrofitted console game on an "alien" store.

After 10-15 years where Microsoft abandoned the PC platform for Xbox to come back and think they can get involved again and be successful isn't going to happen.

Microsoft has no idea what PC gamers want or how to get them back. They should just stick to consoles. They can control that. They can't control PC gaming.

The engine is optimized for 30fps. And the PC versions are ports. Nothing more nothing less. You just have to adjust your expectations accordingly ;)

Very hit and miss. Gears 4 was a PC graphics and perfomance masterpiece. KI is great on PC. But all the Forza's have had serious issues.

More importantly, I think they should fix their store first, it can be a challenge just to download games from them.

Wait did forza 7 come out ? Lol you haters are just too funny

Why they even put their games on PC anyway, is beyond me. It defeats the purpose of owning an Xbox system. It's bad enough, they refuse to invest in their first party. They can buy Minecraft, but they won't invest in more studios, new games, and talented young blood.

"Some people have technical issues", well no shit, many different PC configurations & you still get people who want it to run on a toaster & complain when it doesn't. I personally run Gears4, FH3 & the F7 demo all maxed out at a vsync smooth 60fps & couldn't be happier, but it's not like that for everyone in PC gaming..

They can't even get their Operating System working properly on PC. Yet alone to trust them on gaming....

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