NervousXtian
Thought Emoji Movie was good. Take that as you will.
Except it did happen. See: Microsoft Surface
Only on the RT, the Pro isn't locked down. The RT was MS's solution to iPad. Why pray tell should MS not be allowed to have a product in that market? They'd be stupid NOT to at least attempt to enter it as there is serious movement from Desktop to Tablet as home PC solution in a lot of homes... but sure.. they shouldn't even put up a fight?
They're a monopoly in the PC gaming market. The entire market is underpinned by their OS. If they deliberately start ripping the foundations out of that market they're just setting things up for chaos.
Or you can look at Win8 as an attempt to unify a tablet OS with Desktop... in some ways it fails, in a lot of ways it succeeds. A lot of people looked at it from the perspective that MS wants to wall of windows... and others (like me) see it just as that unification in look.
Or just because he/we don't want to have to fight every stupid, petty fight with Microsoft because some Marketdroid thinks stupid feature X is the wave of the future. See: Xbox One shitfight.
One time we'll lose a critical shitfight instead of winning it. Then what? Unless we have a backup plan to where we can shift en masse you'd see PC gaming ripped in a thousand different directions.
I was one of the few who liked the OG Xbox One direction.. I was curious to see how a forced online Xbox would develop over time. I know people think it was anti-consumer.. but honestly I think it could have become what Gabe wants SteamBox to be (in a sense, not PC games, but yeah).
Of course, people disagree with me why PC games have so many sales, most think it's the competition.. but I believe it's PRICE being used as Advertising.. lower price, increase exposure, increase sells.. do this a few times a year and all under the publishers/developers controls. You could eliminate all the problems of retail.
Alas, wrong thread for this.. but I had grand visions of a Steam-like Xbone experience...
Maybe. But he worked at Microsoft. He might know how it works on the inside. All it would take for Seam to be done for is if Microsoft decided in their next Windows iteration that their store is the only way you can install apps. Because it'll be curated and "safe". That means any other store like Steam or GOG are done. It's a smart to make the preemptive move to multiple OS's just in case. And now Steam IS safe because it's already on Mac, Linux and Windows.
He left MS in the mid-90's... so much has changed.
Also, Steam doesn't live in a vacuum. MS doing that would fuck EVERY developer/publisher... and MS still makes massive profits from selling what they do.. sure they look at that iTunes money and drool.. who doesn't? Doesn't mean they are going to wall of windows though on a desktop/laptop environment... it goes against what there biggest customers want.
Do you even stop to think of the business world? My company is updating software suites constantly that we use.. 1 company, multiple updates to stuff per week with 1,000's of users updating... that's 1 out of how many US companies? What do we send all those updates THROUGH MS to get out? They have to cert them all?
Come on, no way that happens any time soon. They'd DESTROY their business division.