Purchasing EA or Valve sounds like it would awful for gamers. PUBG, sure, we have heard that rumor for a while now. However, I cannot see how MS buying EA or Valve could be a good thing really, except for their own ecosystem. Otherwise, they are walling off anyone else that doesn't play on their Console or PC.
Get a Xbox 1 X if you wanna play those games
your posts guys convince me even more that a hybrid console/pc can be the real solution for MS.
there are people on pc that want to play x1 games.
and there are people on X1 that want to play pc games.
solution is going nintendo way.
Hybrid , "PCX" .
3 points:
-reference hardware of a console but made by other companies like pc Dell, Lenovo ect.
advantages: those companies pay royalties to MS and eat any hardware cost, on the other hand they can reconvert their desktop market that is dead, xbox is still a big brand.
- OS unity, Win11 made modular with gaming "kernel" easily expandable for OEMs,
advantages: target different audience, simple OS for family and kids, pro features for pro gamers, code one for all, also easily hardware revision to keep on par with pc evolution (this way no PS5 or PS6 can beat them on hardware race)
- Unify stores
advantages: No need to buy third parties , their official store could publish first party games and exclusive indies, while third party stores can sell their games adding value to "xbox optimized" games ones (exclusive dlc , performance updates) sharing some money with MS(free money for MS in the end).
Playing Nintendo and Sony game for another gen is a risk.
switching to "consolfying" pc market ("Pcfying" console market if you like otherwise) is a better move.
they have UWP now , only they need is letting Steam or EA to publish UWP games , they can convince them showing the number of gaming pc running windows.
I can understand some people will not like MS giving up on hardware, but in their vision gaming is a service and that is their final destination, importing their pc ecosystem is such a big pie that everybody from OEM to Publishers will be so happy have a slice.