There's an interview with
Phil Spencer on Gamereactor talking with the head of Xbox at Microsoft about
a variety of topics (thanks
PC Gamer). Along the way he confirms that all upcoming Xbox first-party
games will also be coming to PC. Here's what he says:
The question that we
get then is sometimes, what about this specific closed platform? And that I
really mean there is we're either kind of all in or not all in on one of these
closed platforms. I don't think its healthy where for every first-party game
that comes out I have to get the question, is that coming to Switch or is that
coming to Switch, and it not because, I love Nintendo and our relationship with
what we are doing, that want us to be all in or not, and there is this
expectation from customers like there is now on PC, where people don't really
question - there might be some timing things, on when certain things happen -
but if we are shipping a first-party game it's coming to PC. If we are shipping
a first-party game on PC it's coming to Steam and our own store. Like we built
an expectation from our customers. That's my goal, and then there will be, as
you said, maybe little anomalies every so often and because of relationships and
certain developers that want to do certain things, but my goal is: make games as
playable by as many people as possible so that this art form continues to grow.
And I wanna be all in on the places where Xbox is, so a customer of those
platforms can have an expectation that I'm gonna get to go play. And I feel good
about the games that we are building, and I feel good about that on PC. You know
if I rewind five years ago, I would say over and over, that we are committed to
PC and then get a bunch of eye rolls, and rightfully so for we weren't doing
much. But I think now when you look at what our standing is on Steam and Game
Pass on PC, we have shown that our commitment over time has paid off. PC
customers may or may not love what we do, but they know that when we are
shipping things, we're gonna do our best effort on PC as well as on
Xbox.