Microsoft recently announced that their latest Mixed Reality headset will support some Steam VR titles a list that is expected to grow in the future. It wil obviously fully support the WIndows 10 ap store apps that were already built for Hololens and all future ones as well, but it is nice to see that they do intend to seriously support the gaming aspect as well, tapping into the pretty large Steam VR library (large for a VR platform that is).
But with this move MS proves that they are fairly flexible when it comes down to support rival software stores as well. They are fairly reluctant to release their own games on Steam (only very few W10/Xone exclusive titles make it to Steam) so this comes as a bit of a turnaround.
Its obvious that W10 is nowhere near the size of Steam when it comes to games, and they are probably noticing this as well. So IMO in the next year we will see MS slowly but surely embracing Steam as a partner platform and start seeing MS exclusive titles popping up on it, or maybe going as far as officially starting to support it and by this making a big U-turn. IMO this would be a great move by them and most deffinatly let their IP's shine even better in the PC sphere.
Do you agree? Will/should MS release their games on Steam? And if yes, when do you think that the switch will occur?
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