Epic Games’ co-founder Tim Sweeney took to The Guardian to warn that Microsoft is attempting to monopolise PC gaming via the Windows 10 Windows Store.
Sweeney says the Universal Windows Platform (UWP), a new tool that allows developers to create a single program that will run on PCs, tablets and presumably even the Xbox One, is essentially a “closed platform within-a-platform”.
“Very recently, in this last week, they launched a bunch of games on Windows Store and had a major marketing event around it, promoting the store and the integration of the Xbox Live service with Windows available through [the Universal Windows Platform] and putatively only through UWP,” Sweeney said. “This indicates they’re starting to now give UWP programs advantages over regular Windows programs and drive people more and more into this ecosystem.”
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