This may be good for Microsoft, but arguably bad for gamers and game designers, who thrive on the creativity enabled by an open platform. "There's a strong temptation to close the platform," Newell reportedly said, "because they look at what they can accomplish when they limit the competitors' access to the platform, and they say, 'That's really exciting.'"
(It should be noted, of course, that Newell has a financial stake in all this, since Valve’s Steam platform is arguably a competitor of the looming Windows Store, as Ars Technica points out.)
This week, other game designers chimed in and piled on Newell’s criticisms, according to TheNextWeb.
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