Windows 10 News - Only 1 In 50 Copies Of Tomb Raider Bought On Windows Store As W10 Uptake Falls Short
If you wanted to have an idea of how well Microsoft’s Windows Store initiative is going, your best bet would be to look towards Rise of the Tomb Raider. So far this is the only game to launch on both Steam and Windows 10 simultaneously. The results, it turns out, are pretty conclusive; 98% of PC copies of Rise of the Tomb Raider were bought on Steam, leaving just a 2% slither for Windows Store owners.
“When we started the project we weren’t aware of Windows 10,” said an ex-Lionhead employee to Kotaku. “We were going to ship on Xbox One initially and then we wanted to come out on PC at a later point, most likely though Steam. But we got burnt quite badly.”
“Without Steam, without other platforms, it was just painful,” said another source. “The Windows Store is a giant disaster. It’s on fire. 98% of PC copies of Rise of the Tomb Raider, a flagship Windows 10 game, were bought on Steam.”
The developers go one step further as well, admitting the Windows Store is “a mess; the number of people who couldn’t even install the game from the Microsoft store was… significant.”
According to insider estimates, uptake of Windows 10 has fallen well short of Microsoft’s predictions. Microsoft supposedly estimated twice as many PCs would have Windows 10 installed during its first year, while Xbox One sales have also not picked up, despite occasional price drops.
It all spells a bit of doom and gloom for Microsoft, but it’s worth bearing in mind Windows 10 is still installed on hundreds of millions of machines. Whether MS can keep any momentum once they charge for their operating system though, that’s anybody’s guess. It does mean we can expect a heavy gaming push from Microsoft at E3, where it’ll be keen to take one last shot at getting gamers to upgrade to Windows 10 for all those DirectX 12 goodies.
If you wanted to have an idea of how well Microsoft’s Windows Store initiative is going, your best bet would be to look towards Rise of the Tomb Raider. So far this is the only game to launch on both Steam and Windows 10 simultaneously. The results, it turns out, are pretty conclusive; 98% of PC copies of Rise of the Tomb Raider were bought on Steam, leaving just a 2% slither for Windows Store owners.
“When we started the project we weren’t aware of Windows 10,” said an ex-Lionhead employee to Kotaku. “We were going to ship on Xbox One initially and then we wanted to come out on PC at a later point, most likely though Steam. But we got burnt quite badly.”
“Without Steam, without other platforms, it was just painful,” said another source. “The Windows Store is a giant disaster. It’s on fire. 98% of PC copies of Rise of the Tomb Raider, a flagship Windows 10 game, were bought on Steam.”
The developers go one step further as well, admitting the Windows Store is “a mess; the number of people who couldn’t even install the game from the Microsoft store was… significant.”
According to insider estimates, uptake of Windows 10 has fallen well short of Microsoft’s predictions. Microsoft supposedly estimated twice as many PCs would have Windows 10 installed during its first year, while Xbox One sales have also not picked up, despite occasional price drops.
It all spells a bit of doom and gloom for Microsoft, but it’s worth bearing in mind Windows 10 is still installed on hundreds of millions of machines. Whether MS can keep any momentum once they charge for their operating system though, that’s anybody’s guess. It does mean we can expect a heavy gaming push from Microsoft at E3, where it’ll be keen to take one last shot at getting gamers to upgrade to Windows 10 for all those DirectX 12 goodies.
