re: Microsoft to unify PC and Xbox One platforms

Unfortunately this is on the heels of their 2nd major utter failure PC game launch via the Windows Store as Gears of War Ultimate Edition is a complete pile of garbage on PC.

They better get their shite together on PC first.

Luckily I held off for reviews before buying it.

Forbes:

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Gears of War: Ultimate Edition on PC releases today exclusively to the Windows 10 Store. It should have been another prominent feather in Microsoft's DirectX 12 cap. Instead, it’s one of the most disastrous PC game launches in years, and many AMD Radeon owners are advised to steer completely clear during the game’s launch window.

You’re also seeing horrendous hitching and stuttering, and some visual corruption thrown in for good measure, making the game completely unplayable on an excellent $500 graphics card.

I’ve verified this performance with other tech writers.

Another $500 graphics card exhibiting what amounts to a slideshow, rendered useless by a game that originally released nine years ago under DirectX 9 on a console. This, folks, is not how Microsoft will win back PC gamers.

At the same time, it’s difficult to accept that Microsoft, in their aggressive effort to promote Windows 10 using DX12 as one of the operating system’s key advantages for gamers, would even think about releasing a game so utterly broken and unplayable on such a large number of video cards. One has to also wonder how much DX12 DNA can truly exist in a game born out of DX9.

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