Microsoft: IGN has a lot to prove with PC Gaming.

"As IGN continues to post BS, the failure of gaming journalism continues to haunt us all."

Console lock down the hardware and software for many years while PC keep evolving?

How many mods you have for console? Cheats?

A console is still a PC, but a very lock down PC and some people don't like that "Lock Downess"

Gears of War: Ultimate Edition for Win10 available on the Windows Store........
I would like to play with it, but....... And looks like from the ratings it is a very bad port.

If I am reading it correctly, Direct X 12 may not be better then older version of Direct X..
It is lauded to be better because it access the GPUs directly and cut off the OS as the middle man
Now it have a new middle man that is Windows App Store compositing engine

Console Peasants and The Glorious PC Master Race.

What does "merge PC gaming and Xbox" even mean? Turn a PC into a console? Stop making PCs and force all PC gamers to buy Xboxes at gunpoint? Stop making Xboxes and force all Xbox users to use Windows for gaming? I don't comprehend the concept of "merge PC and Xbox gaming" under any definition/explanation.

You have to pay for multiplayer on one of them. :P

True. One requires no internet connection, is much more portable, games come on discs and you can give said discs to others when you are done. Other one almost always needs an internet connection, you can either have an underpowered one or a portable one, games come on downloads that are tied to an account.
True. It's not as if people keep saying that a 13 year old OS is still the best one to use.

Game dependent, both of them.

So if something makes the consoles more like a PC, how is that a bad thing?

When was the last time MS published a good game? Age of Mythology?

I am not knowledgeable enough in the 13 year old OS to know the statement is true or not.
But I thought the definition of software lock down means you cannot tamper with the software easily hence mods, cheat, rewriting some game files, game saves, access item database cannot happen easily.

I am not sure what the age of the OS has to do with lock down.

Of course it is good to consoles owner if the consoles become more like a PC.
But it is bad the other way round when the PC (OS) make the PC behaves more like a console and take on console disadvantages to trade in the advantages of few consoles exclusive.

In short it may be good to consoles owner and bad to PC owners, People have phobia on how well Microsoft will handle it since Games for Window Life.

This.

Although, It would be interesting (and somewhat horrifying I guess) to read the conclusion of a psychology study done a platform war.

Ah Steam. The paragon of restrictions. I'd buy a console and start over again rather than dealing with such a broken service.

After all, modding is dead, hacking is dead, plugins are dead, all of these are dead.


And lest not forget this article is made by IGN. Quite a quality seal here.

I just don't trust MS not to put something in I won't like or hurts privacy. Windows 10 is already the most spyhappy OS they made, and I don't trust them to do anything good.

I never complained, and I never cared. MS themselves isolated PC and I'm not gonna be bribed out of the the years of development they didn't do on better APIs with getting some Xbone exclusives free for windows.

really? a console?
i don't know what experiences you have had with steam but i prefer it over any console.
backwards compatibility with different versions of windows.
i can play the same same on different machines, windows, mac and Linux.
while steam is no longer the best thing out there for pc gamers given it is a form of drm, there is no way consoles arent worse.
in the end, you are allowed to like what you like just like everyone else, i doubt you could present an argument to convince others though