Players on the PC are having a ball right now with several Xbox titles like "Gears of War: Ultimate Edition," "Quantum Break" and "Forza Motorsport: Apex" being ported into their systems, but one Xbox title that won't have a PC release is the famed "Halo 5."
An Xbox property such as "Quantum Break" is making a crossover to the PC, notes Mobipicker. "Killer Instinct," another Xbox title, is also reportedly getting ported. But what about fan-favorite "Halo 5?" Microsoft's Phil Spencer explains why.
In an interview with PC Gamer, Spencer emphasized that unlike other games that were designed to worl on both console and PC platforms, "Halo 5" was made with a great console experience in mind, thus porting it into the PC wouldn't make any sense.
Citing the newly-released real-time strategy game "Ashes of the Singularity," Spencer said that certain games will be released for the system in which it will work best, regardless of the peripherals that the system may have:
"If I enable keyboard and mouse on a console - which we will do - and then you download ["Ashes of the Singularity"] and you're playing on a monitor, is that a PC game or a console game?" Spencer notes.
"I think there are games that people want to play in front of their monitor with a keyboard and mouse," Spencer added, "and I want to be somebody that builds those games."
While there are games that Spencer believes will work well on both platforms, he also believes that trying to make all games work on them will probably backfire and disappoint players.
"I think we end up with 'Frankengames', games that really weren't meant for a certain platform," Spencer said. "And because some suit said, 'Hey, everything's gotta run on both platforms', you end up with something people don't want."
One good thing, though, is that while "Halo 5" will be unlikely to have a PC version, a new "Halo" FPS could be made for the PC, said Spencer. He'd rather focus on a new "Halo" instead of porting "Halo 5" to the PC.
"It doesn't mean there's nothing there that could ever end up on PC, but I'd much rather look forward with what our plans are."
