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Pryce
May 21, 2011

Senor Dog posted:

I'm not a techman, why is this directX 12 thing win10 only?

I assume he was referring to the fact that Xbox is effectively running Windows 10 on it, so it means all Microsoft games are more or less fully cross-compatible with Windows 10 (almost) out of the box. That's how "Xbox Play Anywhere" came about, since it costs them almost nothing to have a game run on Xbox AND Windows 10, when they may have only ever meant to develop stuff for Xbox. Basically, Windows 10 is going to get a fuckload more 'console-exclusive' games (in theory), since they've made it extremely easy for an Xbox dev to sell their game on Windows 10 going forward.

Pryce fucked around with this message at 19:47 on Jun 30, 2017

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Pryce
May 21, 2011

M2tt posted:

Except this game is using the unreal engine and they could port it to PS4 by clicking a checkbox if they wanted to.

lol APIs.

Sure, but that's not what this conversation is about. We're arguing about why these are Windows 10 exclusive games (instead of supporting previous Windows version).

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