Even if xbox loses every exclusive...

[pokoko]

kitler53 said:

pokoko said:
It kind of is, in a way. I mean, if Halo goes to PC, I will probably never buy any Xbox. Anyone who is a PC gamer first probably feels the same way. Now, yeah, I imagine Microsoft will have something attached, like a new version of GFWL, but that service got next to nothing out of me.

and ms really has no reason to care about that.   consoles have always been a lose/lead business model.  lose money on hardware to get a bigger audience the sell highly profitable software.

...if you buy a windows 10 device (which isn't a loss/lead business so money is being made by both ms and the manufaturer of the computer) and buy halo that's a win/win for ms.   xbox won't lose software support even if it sells like shit because (kind of like with vita) the porting costs are almost eliminated so it is hard to justify not going multiplat.

I disagree.  I think Microsoft very much wants that Xbox connected to the TV in the living room.  They get a cut out of every service used by the consumer and every game bought digitally.  That's definitely not the case on PC, where people can pick and chose with nothing going to Microsoft beyond the OS license.  Unless they could counter the loss with some way to win back a share of the PC gaming market-place from Steam--and something like Halo would certainly be the center-piece of that--they'd end up surrendering multiple streams of revenue.