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creat326
Up and Coming
March 25, 2014

Windows 8.1

Hi there

I've just checked, and still... no support for windows store applications. Is this even on the roadmap? an ETA or something? I have many people that would love to play the game on the Oculus but I only distribute through the windows store. I'm still wondering why this was not there since the first few months of oculus sdk :?

    3 replies

    Guspaz
    Up and Coming
    March 25, 2014
    A game developer choosing to only distribute through the Windows store is a game developer that hasn't thought their distribution strategy through... It's a recipe for failure. I want to say that in much stronger terms, but I'm trying to be polite here.

    Consider that Windows 8+ only has an ~11% market share, and many (most?) Windows 8+ users completely ignore the Windows store, and you can see what I'm getting at. You're immediately restricting yourself to a tiny portion of the potential market.
    owenwp
    Up and Coming
    March 25, 2014
    If windows store fails it should be because it is not a viable marketplace, not because of unnecessary technical complications like SDKs that don't work with it.
    creat326Author
    Up and Coming
    March 25, 2014
    well, coming from someone who choose to develop for Oculus VR which has a market share of... 0.00001% of computers... i think i'll handle perfectly fine my windows store numbers.

    Now, the question is about why/when we can get an sdk for windows store apps, not to begin a thread about opinions on windows, microsoft, mac vs pc or statitics. 11% of the market is a huge number. To give you an idea, the whole Mac (all mac os versions!) is less than 9% of the market.

    So going back to the subject, because i'm sure more and more will keep just posting their opinion instead of a real answer: windows store sdk?
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