- cross-posted to:
- games@lemmy.world
- cross-posted to:
- games@lemmy.world
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Well maybe stop putting advertising banners on my premium console’s home screen for one.
Also, I actually don’t agree with this. Having one store for a console makes it simple, and allows Microsoft to act as a sort of second quality control barrier. They wont allow certain game updates to be pushed if they cause certain problems on the hardware, and if another store is allowed then arguably that new store will have less protections for the end user.
On a PC or a phone it makes sense to have multiple storefronts because you use those devices for more than only video games. Not the same for video game consoles.
Nobody in the history of ever has said “Boy, I would buy an Xbox but only if I can buy games on the Epic Games Store.”
Granted I haven’t read the article so might just be making stuff up, but if it’s more for “Oh you own this game on the Epic store on PC, well you don’t have to buy it on the Xbox store” then that’s a reason to have them on there. That’s how a lot of Xbox games work, since I bought them on Xbox I still have access to them on PC through the Xbox app so it’d be expanding that to other stores
That would be good, I’m all for more cross platform licensing and PC-Console is the obvious bridge as there isn’t the direct competition that console-console would have.
