Microsoft Sources: Win Store Is A Giant Disaster; There Should Be 2X Xbox One & Windows 10 Installs Now

Yous might recall that Microsoft recently ordered the closure of Lionhead Studios after cancelling Legend Legends (even though Fable Fortune, a collectible card game originally conceived at Lionhead, is trying its luck on Kickstarter).

Kotaku United kingdom of great britain and northern ireland published a massive article today digging into the reasons behind this unfortunate event. They were also able to get some actually interesting information out of their (bearding) sources at Microsoft.

These sources had no trouble depicting Windows Store equally i of the main problems encountered with Legend Legends, though they too pointed out that Windows ten installs and Xbox One consoles are much lower than predicted by Microsoft, which is yet some other problem they had to face.

When we started the projection we weren't aware of Windows 10. Nosotros were going to ship on Xbox 1 initially so we wanted to come out on PC at a later on betoken, most likely though Steam. Merely we got burnt quite badly.
Without Steam, without other platforms, it was just painful. The Windows Store is a giant disaster. It's on burn down. 98% of PC copies of Rising of the Tomb Raider, a flagship Windows x game, were bought on Steam. The same is true for Minecraft. That injure u.s.a., too. The store'south a mess; the number of people who couldn't fifty-fifty install the game from the Microsoft shop was… significant.

Allow's be honest – we make our projections based on a series of assumptions. At that place are supposed to be 2x as many Xboxes out there as there are right now. In that location are supposed to be 2x equally many Windows 10 installs as there currently are. And then at present, when we await at how much money Legends could make in the gratuitous-to-play universe, you lot have to halve it. Considering we tin just reach half the audience that was projected.

This might be why Microsoft is at present pushing all of its previously exclusive Xbox One titles on Windows 10 - they're trying to cut losses wherever possible and maximize revenue. We may have more of these announcements at their E3 2022 Briefing, which is due side by side Monday - stay tuned for all the news.